OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND SPECIAL EDUCATION AS REMEDIAL INTERVENTION TO ENHANCECOGNITIVE PROCESSES OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY

Abstract

 Learning difficulties have a multidimensional impact on children and affect cognitive processing as well. The present study aims to understand the effect of occupational therapy and special education on cognitive processing of children with specific learning disability. For this purpose, two children, aged seven years facing dyslexia were taken from a private school. They both were provided with occupational therapy and special education interventions for a period of one month. Cognitive assessment system was used in a pre and post setting before and after the intervention to record the changes in cognitive processing level. For occupational therapy intervention Logicco Piccolo, by Grolier was used and for special education through Individualised Education Plan the intervention for English language was focused upon. The results indicated that occupational therapy intervention did bring about a change in the cognitive processing level of the child. Significant change was seen in the simultaneous subsets on the cognitive assessment system for both occupational therapy and special education intervention