Stuckey's Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy helps people of all ages participate in meaningful everyday living activities through therapeutic use of the everyday activities to regain skills or to compensate for changes in abilities. Discussed by Stuckey, an occupational therapist’s ultimate goal is to increase a patient’s ability to participate in their everyday activities. So an occupational therapist is going to, for instance, help a child who is having trouble writing with and gripping a pencil. They are going to find therapeutic ways to increase fine motor skills, increase the size of the pencil, and make writing an easier more natural occurrence in their everyday life. Stuckey goes on to explain that an occupational therapist has to be referred by another person