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Occupational therapy

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Occupational therapy

Therapist Keith Morton-Macphail works with eight-year-old Trey Hess, a pupil at the Mt Roskill primary school's Endeavour Centre for children with special needs, in 2009. Occupational therapists help people with physical and mental disabilities to learn to perform everyday or 'occupational' tasks, including preparing food, driving cars or using computers.

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Allison Kirkman, Health practitioners – Health-care practice, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28314/occupational-therapy (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 29 March 2011, updated 28 April 2026.