Occupational therapy helps people with sensory disorders function better by using regulation techniques that can make speech therapy easier afterward. Ming explains that OTs, speech therapists, and ABA specialists sometimes overlap on skills like pencil grip, but OT has its own specialized approach.
OT helps normalize sensory disorders so that they can function better. And that's why, if I'm working with an ot, the parents should ask the OT to do a session first before coming to me so that they're more ready in terms of sensory. Okay. The behavior will be a lot more mild. It's a lot easier to get them to do things. I would strongly suggest you look into some of the OT techniques to regulate sensory so that you can teach them and it's easier for you. There are other things that I think will overlap with speech therapy. The first one is fine motor. Fine motor skills. If your child cannot write and he or she is holding the pen like this with a fist and going like that, you know, chances are you need to see a OT for a child and they will teach them the correct way to write. Fine motor is something that us speech therapists will do and also ABA therapists will do, but not in the way that OT will do.
