ABSTRACT
For most children, skills of daily living such as cutting food, fastening zippers, handwriting, and rollerblading, are acquired incidentally.
There has been a call in the occupational therapy literature for the use of cognitive approaches to improve occupational performance in individuals with disabilities.1,2,3 Toglia3 has suggested that cognitive strategies can be used to enhance performance in adults with brain injury. Similarly, in the pediatric literature Goodgold-Edwards and Cermak1 have suggested that strategies can be useful in teaching children new motor tasks.
