Occupational therapy is a method of helping people who have been ill or injured to develop skills or get skills back by giving them certain activities to do.
She will now begin occupational therapy to regain the use of her hands.
occupational therapy in British English
noun
treatment of people with physical, emotional, or social problems, using purposeful activity to help them overcome or learn to deal with their problems
Derived forms
occupational therapist
noun
occupational therapy in American English
US
therapy which restores, reinforces, and enhances the abilities of those diseased or injured to care for themselves, return to work, avoid further disability, etc., as by using work and play activity and by teaching techniques for adapting to individual environments
Examples of 'occupational therapy' in a sentence
occupational therapy
Latest thing we have started is occupational therapy to try and address his determination to reverse everything he writes.
Bénédicte Newland and Pascale Smets AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR (2005)