Children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Learning difficulties frequently get compared with language to repetitive movements / interactions or sequences. Occupational Therapist can play an essential role in educating those around an individual and with providing protective knowledge to that individual to help them navigate through social challenges when others do not have sufficient knowledge of how to separate the diagnostic repetitive behaviours or skill challenges associated with learning compared to the requirements that some work environments and tasks have where to be proficient and efficient requires high attention to detail for repetitiveness and accuracy to make sure that you get it right. Everyone’s work environments have different levels of demands which require some tasks to be done with 100% precision whilst others can be completed to a lesser standard. Robotics is an Industry which requires attention to detail and where repetitive knowledge of steps and sequences are standard to understanding the functioning of machinery.
