Occupational Therapy

Helping children succeed in life now and as they grow and thrive.

What Is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapy is a fun way for trained professionals to help improve your child’s sensory processing, visual perceptual, attention, and fine motor coordination skills that are used throughout activities of daily living. Children require these skills for body awareness, self-soothing, acceptance of different textures, dressing, tying shoes, and cutting with scissors to name a few. Exercises are geared toward helping children have increased success across settings throughout the day, including school, social interactions with peers, and everyday routines encountered at home. Occupational therapists focus on multiple layers of functioning that will help with your child’s movement throughout their day.

Signs That Your Child May Benefit from
Occupational Therapy

Avoidance of touching or eating certain textures

Uncharacteristic body or oral motor posturing (flapping hands/stiffening of the fingers/jaw tension/banging of the head)

Difficulty focusing and staying on task when asked to complete everyday activities such as brushing teeth

Difficulty imitating other's actions that promotes learning a new skill

Difficulty remembering how to do an activity after being taught

Difficulty with activities that involve hand-eye coordination such as writing, catching a ball, or cutting with scissors

How Can an Occupational Therapist
Help Your Child?

The goal of Occupational Therapy is to help children succeed in life now and as they grow and thrive—at home, at play, and in school. As children improve their skills and achievement in these areas, they grow more confident, and begin to reach their fullest potential. From learning to complete certain daily tasks such as brushing their hair and dressing themselves to improving physical difficulties such as balance and hand-eye coordination, Occupational Therapy provides emotional, social, and physical remedies that serve as the foundational building-blocks for a child to overcome barriers and experience success.

Occupational Therapy
Services Include:

Assessment

Assessment of your child to determine their individual needs and develop a treatment plan that will promote success in them accomplishing tasks during their everyday routines.

Improve focus and development

Working with your child to improve focus and overall development of fine motor abilities, strength, endurance, and coordination.

Introducing strategies

Introducing strategies and possibly even assistive equipment to mange impaired movement and establish foundational skills for success.

Offering support and strategies

Offering support and strategies to families and caregivers for practice at home that will promote success in mastering newly taught skills.

Collaborating with others

Collaborating with other professionals that may benefit the child's overall development.

Peers and Socialization

Introducing peer building and socialization skills.

Schedule a Session

Let us help your child overcome barriers and experience success.