How Does Occupational Therapy Help Young Children

Center for Inclusive Child Care9min

Speaker 1

00:04

Welcome to Inclusion Matters produced by the Center for Inclusive Child Care, aka, CICC. Were located at inclusivechildcare.org.

Cindy Croft

00:22

Welcome to Inclusion Matters, a podcast of the Center for Inclusive Child Care. I'm Cindy Croft, Executive Director of the Center, and I'm here with my colleague Priscilla Weigel, assistant director. Hi, Priscilla. Hi Cindy, good to be here. And we're excited today to have Gina Gibson with us. She's an occupational therapist, with Frazier in Minnesota. And so we're going to do some series on sensory processing and some other things that she works with as an OT. And so welcome.

Gina Gibson

00:50

Yeah, thank you for having me. It's great to be here.

Cindy Croft

00:53

So first, before we begin, could you tell us a little bit about your role as an occupational therapist?

Gina Gibson

00:58

Yea, so I'm an Occupational Therapist at Fraser. So my day to day role works with kids on building their independence, so that they can do their self care skills, they can work on their fine motor skills. And then we work a lot on sensory processing. I also partner with community organizations to help make experiences more sensory inclusive and inclusive to people with all needs and abilities and across all ages.

Priscilla W.

01:24

Okay, great I bet that's very interesting and really helpful for the organizations who are trying to provide positive things, experiences and also those individuals who are used to feeling like, oh, no, this person is not going to understand me, and they're not going to know what I need.

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