Occupational therapy helps regain, enhance and maintain:

1. Gross motor and fine motor control through functional activities.
2. Endurance through graded exercises, guidance on work-rest balance, work simplifications and energy conservation techniques.
3. Sensory awareness and discrimination through re-education.
4. Perception skills such as body awareness, spatial relations & position in space, and motor planning through purposeful and functional activities.
5. Cognition domains such as attention, orientation, memory, and problem solving through purposeful and functional activities.
6. Balance and coordination including manual dexterity through age-appropriate functional activities among various parts of the body and between the body and its external environment.
7. Tone and posture by guiding patients on proper positioning that needs to be followed throughout the day, various weight-bearing and weight-shifting activities.
8. Oral motor control which include facilitation techniques and modifying feeding patterns (Dysphagia management).
9. Psychosocial (emotional) well-being by facilitating return to daily routine activities, school/work, play, leisure / recreation tasks, communication and social interactions using therapeutic strategies, adaptive devices & techniques and modification of the environment.
10. Caretaker support and Family Counselling through support groups and by encouraging active involvement in setting goals.