
Occupational therapy helps people participate in everyday life. It can help improve occupational performance, reduce occupational disabilities, and promote health through participation. Occupational therapists are concerned with helping their clients engage in the occupations of daily living, which include self-care tasks such as eating or bathing, work activities like typing on a keyboard or participating in leisure activities that might be fun things to do after school like playing video games, sports, and outdoor explorations. For children who have developmental milestones, they need to achieve occupational therapists can provide them with strategies for success when completing these critical skills related to development.