Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy promotes independence by enabling people to perform activities of daily living through strategies and modifications designed to address physical or cognitive limitations. Examples of this can include:
- Helping people to achieve basic skills for routines such as dressing oneself, brushing teeth, showering, and all other common daily activities
- Providing skilled training to help individuals with generating ideas for meals, creating weekly shopping lists, shopping for groceries within a budget, cooking, and safety in the kitchen
- Providing training for functional home management tasks such as doing laundry, cleaning the house, or maintaining a checkbook
- Assisting with the skills needed to be able to navigate the community safely as a pedestrian or driver
- Clinical training on skills needed to be able to return to driving
- Providing home assessments to determine what accommodations need to be made so that an individual’s home is safe and accessible
In the state of Michigan, occupational therapists are required to be credentialed through the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) and must participate in at last 36 hours of continuing education every three years.
Occupational therapists can work in a variety of settings including schools, hospitals, hospice care, and more. At Hope Network, our occupational therapists typically provide therapy in people’s home or the community. Most of our physical therapists have multiple years of experience in brain injury rehabilitation, and several are Certified Brain Injury Specialists. You can learn more about our occupational therapists
here.