Gayle Human Occ

Cognitive skills relate to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgement, and reasoning. Judgement, concept formation, attention/concentration, thought, executive functions, praxis, insight

Adults come to each learning experience with an integration of all learned experiences.Negative and positive learning experiences transfer to new learning experiences.

• External: Environment, other people, adaptions, equipment
• Internal: stuff that is going on inside a person, desires, motivations, genetic make-up

• Social participation: friends, like conditions
• Learning from/ through peers
• Interpersonal learning
• Learn different ways of doing something
• Fun, entertainment

• Finances-less costly
• Getting OT in the community and schools
• Manage mental health issues
• Experiential learning—learning form your personal experiences, awareness of interpersonal relationships/ social skills

• Cohesiveness- feeling of belonging
• Learn something new in a safe environment
• Improve skills
• Learning something from a different perspective

An activity that adds meaning to the client