A Brief description of Origami's Occupational Therapy Approach to Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Occupational therapy here at Origami is based upon a theory developed by Madhav R. Kulkarni, Ph.D., O.T.R., C.R.C., L.P.C. called the Cognitive Perceptual Motor approach.   Cognitive Perceptual Motor (CPM) therapy is an occupational therapy approach to remediation of deficits in cognitive, perceptual-motor, and sensory-motor functions following a brain injury.   The basic premise of this approach is that brain injured persons must reacquire the basic foundational skills that were acquired during normal development, a bottom up approach.

The majority of occupational therapy treatment at Origami is directed toward restoring the disrupted brain processes that underlie complex cognitive operations.   We address restoration of functions in sensory reception and integration; attention/concentration; memory; motor control; gross and fine motor coordination; visual; tactile, and auditory   discrimination; language functions; logical thinking; problem solving; decision-making and judgment, with the ultimate goal being functional adaptation for the individual (Kulkarni, 1993).

The evaluation procedure for this approach is a very comprehensive, multifaceted evaluation, employing many tests of cognitive, sensory/perceptual, and motor function, above and beyond what is typical for an occupational therapist, but not above and beyond what an occupational therapist is qualified to do, nor above and beyond what is required to get enough information to treat a person who has sustained a traumatic brain injury.

This information is provided as an overview of Cognitive Perceptual Motor (CPM) and basis for therapy offered at Origami Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program.   If additional information is required please contact the following for more resources: