Parent-Child Services Group, Inc.
1225 E. Weisgarber Road, Suite 180 South ● Knoxville, TN 37909 ● (865) 584-5558 ● Fax: (865) 584-6607

A OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST EVALUATES:

UPPER EXTREMITY FUNCTIONING: This includes hand dominance, strength, range of motion, tone, reach, grasp, and release patterns, and fine motor development.

SENSORY PROCESSING: This includes the child’s ability to process information from a variety of sensory systems including tactile, vestibular, proprioceptive, olfactory, visual, and auditory. It also includes different types of processing which may consist of defensiveness, registration, modulation, and/or integration.

VISUAL PERCEPTION: This involves both visual perceptual skills (what the brain perceives the eyes are seeing) and visual motor skills (the motor output of what the brain perceives the eyes are seeing).

HANDWRITING FUNCTION: This includes specific hand skills development (such as arches, finger isolation, shoulder, wrist, and forearm position) as well as in-hand manipulation skills, and assessment of written output (which includes letter formation, reversals, production consistency, legibility, spacing).

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING: This involves the assessment of dressing, feeding, grooming/hygiene, and leisure/play skills.