Occupational therapists work with children in the following areas:

• Fine motor skills- coordination of small motor movements mainly in the hands and fingers; grasping skills
• Visual motor skills- small motor movements in coordination with the eyes; may include tasks such as cutting, drawing, and writing
• Sensory processing and sensorimotor
• Self-help skills- dressing, grooming, bathing tasks
• Feeding- sensory and motor approach
• Visual perception- how visual information is perceived; visual memory, visual figure ground, visual spatial awareness, visual discrimination, visual
• Handwriting
• Strength and endurance- core and upper body strength and endurance as it relates to the ability to perform daily tasks
• Coordination- ability to use both sides of the body to perform coordinated movement patterns
• Eye- hand coordination- ability to coordinate eye movement with hand movement; ball skills
• Social skills
• Play skills