occupational performance issues
The following characteristics of RTT can dramatically impact how a child goes about their day. It is not surprising that children with RTT face occupational performance issues.
• Partial or complete loss of acquired purposeful hand skills
• Partial or complete loss of acquired spoken language
• Gait abnormalities
• Stereotypic hand movements such as wringing, squeezing, clapping, tapping, mouthing or hand-washing movements
• Breathing disturbances when awake
• Tooth grinding when awake
• Impaired sleep
• Abnormal muscle tone
• Peripheral vasomotor disturbances
• Inappropriate laughing/screaming spells
• Diminished sensitivity to pain
• Intense eye communication and eye-pointing behaviour (Who Does Rett Syndrome Affect?, n.d.)
How Rett syndrome affects function across their day-to-day lives is listed below (Crawford, 1999; Rett Syndrome, n.d.) :
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(This list is not exhaustive and each child faces unique challenges)
The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapy can assist the client in overcoming these performance issues by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement (WFOT, 2012).
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References
Crawford, M. (1999). A creative approach treating to Rett syndrom. OT practice 5, 32-33.
Rett Syndrome. (n.d.). OT for Kids. Retrieved July 29, 2014, from http://www.otforkids.co.uk/conditions/rett-syndrome.html
Who Does Rett Syndrome Affect? (n.d.). My Child Without Limits RSS. Retrieved July 20, 2014, from http://www.mychildwithoutlimits.org/understand/rett-syndrome/who-does-rett-syndrome-affect/
World Federation of Occupational Therapy. (2012). Home – WFOT Information. What is Occupational Therapy? Retreived July 25, 2014 www.wfot.org/information.asp
Image source:
http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2014/06/life-with-toddler.html
• Partial or complete loss of acquired purposeful hand skills
• Partial or complete loss of acquired spoken language
• Gait abnormalities
• Stereotypic hand movements such as wringing, squeezing, clapping, tapping, mouthing or hand-washing movements
• Breathing disturbances when awake
• Tooth grinding when awake
• Impaired sleep
• Abnormal muscle tone
• Peripheral vasomotor disturbances
• Inappropriate laughing/screaming spells
• Diminished sensitivity to pain
• Intense eye communication and eye-pointing behaviour (Who Does Rett Syndrome Affect?, n.d.)
How Rett syndrome affects function across their day-to-day lives is listed below (Crawford, 1999; Rett Syndrome, n.d.) :
Home:
- Carrying objects
- Tying shoe laces
- Listening to instructions
- Making food and drink
- Feeding
- Concentrating
- Brushing teeth
- Using the toilet and personal hygiene
- Moving between classes
- Poor handwriting
- Difficulty cutting
- Concentrating
- Communicating with peers
- Sitting tolerance and endurance in classroom setting
- Difficulty making friends
- Understanding social cues
- Understanding boundaries
(This list is not exhaustive and each child faces unique challenges)
The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapy can assist the client in overcoming these performance issues by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement (WFOT, 2012).
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References
Crawford, M. (1999). A creative approach treating to Rett syndrom. OT practice 5, 32-33.
Rett Syndrome. (n.d.). OT for Kids. Retrieved July 29, 2014, from http://www.otforkids.co.uk/conditions/rett-syndrome.html
Who Does Rett Syndrome Affect? (n.d.). My Child Without Limits RSS. Retrieved July 20, 2014, from http://www.mychildwithoutlimits.org/understand/rett-syndrome/who-does-rett-syndrome-affect/
World Federation of Occupational Therapy. (2012). Home – WFOT Information. What is Occupational Therapy? Retreived July 25, 2014 www.wfot.org/information.asp
Image source:
http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2014/06/life-with-toddler.html