Occupational Therapy

The following behaviors may indicate the need for evaluation and perhaps intervention:

• apparent over-sensitivity or under-sensitivity to information processed through the senses (e.g. sights, sounds, tastes, smells, touch, movement)
• attention and/or organizational difficulties
• delayed fine and gross motor skills
• coordination problems
• difficulties sequencing actions
• poor self-concept regarding motor activities
• confusion over hand preference
• decreased body awareness and difficulties organizing his/her body in relation to the environment (e.g. bumping into furniture)
• handwriting and keyboarding difficulties
• problems with self-help skills related to dressing, eating, and personal care and grooming (e.g. managing fasteners on clothing, manipulating a knife or fork, using a toothbrush)
  
  
  
  Handwriting (including Hebrew) and keyboarding
  
  
  This year we have an occupational therapist who can work with students who need help writing in Hebrew for upcoming Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. Natalie Katzourin-Buchsbaum can use our new Handwriting Without Tears program for cursive Hebrew, but is also able to teach printed Hebrew. Please call the Occupational Therapy Department at 202-454-2246 if you are interested in this service.

For more information, contact:

Christine Chang
202.944.2217
ot@labschool.org