Everyone has things they do in everyday life are important to them. These are called meaningful activities because they have special meaning for the individual. For children, meaningful work, that of a player, student, friend and son / daughter. To engage a child in these roles, there are many skills and abilities of the child needs to develop. For example, for a child, a friend to be someone, he needs to communicate in a position to empathize and negotiate. The areas that children with autism is present with difficulties in communication often, maintaining eye contact, responds to the feelings of others, maintaining an adequate level of alertness, screening irrelevant information and the use of fine motor and gross motor skills. These difficulties can be combined to fight the child to maintain friendships, learn in school, or communicate, as he / she feels.

Occupational therapists work with children with autism to find out what makes sense to the child, identify barriers and allow the child to act meaningfully in these occupations. Occupational therapists often work on sensory processing difficulties experienced by children. These include tactile Defense, where the OT is gradually new textures so the child to get attention and are deflected by special feelings. Other areas, OT work, the child builds skills in the recognition of others' needs and the capacities for self-care assistance tasks such as eating, dressing, playing. Education is for the family and teachers, help them understand, sensory and communication needs of the child important.

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