Good to know. I was asking because my cursory research suggests that it may be oriented towards older people, or others who may be in more need than me.
If it’s not too much to ask, what were the circumstances around your using OT?
Around middle and highschool, exploring various interventions, treatments and skill training for relative impairments from ADHD, anxiety, autism, dysgraphia and less specified struggles with physical coordination and speech difficulties.
It’s important to note that I would test as ‘good enough’ on skills I was actually rather impaired on because I was “good at intelligence tests” in general, and was able to cover for weak points fairly effectively with effortful application of other skills. The learning difficulties were best discerned by strong peak/valley effects in my score pattern.
I consequently might have appeared to be “less in need” of the interventions from a naive perspective of the testing, but this was an illusion, and I benefited a good deal from trying things out to improve those skills. Occupational therapy is a broad field, but it comes up pretty reliably with aging due to the rather ubiquitous necessity of adapting to physical and cognitive changes.
This is very interesting; thank you for this. Are you an occupational therapist?
I am not, but have had some.
Good to know. I was asking because my cursory research suggests that it may be oriented towards older people, or others who may be in more need than me.
If it’s not too much to ask, what were the circumstances around your using OT?
Around middle and highschool, exploring various interventions, treatments and skill training for relative impairments from ADHD, anxiety, autism, dysgraphia and less specified struggles with physical coordination and speech difficulties.
It’s important to note that I would test as ‘good enough’ on skills I was actually rather impaired on because I was “good at intelligence tests” in general, and was able to cover for weak points fairly effectively with effortful application of other skills. The learning difficulties were best discerned by strong peak/valley effects in my score pattern.
I consequently might have appeared to be “less in need” of the interventions from a naive perspective of the testing, but this was an illusion, and I benefited a good deal from trying things out to improve those skills. Occupational therapy is a broad field, but it comes up pretty reliably with aging due to the rather ubiquitous necessity of adapting to physical and cognitive changes.