What is the occupational therapy role?

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Occupational therapists aim to provide the infant with the best possible start to life by promoting the engagement, best performance, participation and skill acquisition across the occupations of infancy:

  • Self-regulation and arousal
  • Interaction, engagement and attachment
  • Play
  • Feeding
  • Sleep

As well as occupations of parenthood which relate to the infant:

  • Interaction, engagement and attachment
  • Nurturing (feeding, dressing, bathing etc)

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