Core Skills Analysis
Occupational Therapy and Life Skills
During Occupational Therapy with Dee, Olivia participated in an activity focused on occupational therapy. This gave Olivia an opportunity to engage in a learning experience connected with the skills and activities occupational therapy supports. The activity also introduced Olivia to the role of occupational therapy in helping people participate in everyday life. Olivia practiced taking part in a purposeful, therapist-guided learning experience.
Tips
Tips Continue exploring how occupational therapy connects with everyday routines by inviting Olivia to choose a familiar task and describe its steps, tools, and challenges. Try a playful “design for easier living” activity: create or draw a simple adaptation that could make a daily task more comfortable or accessible. Olivia could also interview Dee about the different ways therapists help people build skills, then make a short illustrated guide sharing one takeaway. Keep the conversation centered on Olivia’s own observations and interests.
Book Recommendations
- Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Barry M. Prizant: An accessible, compassionate look at understanding and supporting people with different needs and ways of communicating.
Try This Next
- Everyday-task sequence: draw or write the steps for completing a familiar routine.
- Design challenge: sketch a simple tool or adjustment that could make a daily activity easier.
- Reflection prompt: “What did I notice or learn during occupational therapy with Dee?”