Summary Of Occupational Practitioners

One-fourth of occupational therapists and 21.6% of occupational therapy assistants (OTAs) report that they work with children and adolescents in public school systems (Solomon & O'Brien, 2016). In the school system, the OT practitioner will evaluate the student’s performance in the classroom and to determine whether certain aspects, such as emotion, physical, or behavioral, are interfering with their ability to perform classroom tasks. In this setting, educational goals are primary. One of the main skills that OT practitioners try to improve in the educational systems is handwriting. Once a child enters the school system, it is often easy for teachers to identify children who have difficulty meeting educational expectations. Children who are