Occupational Therapy Services
Occupational therapy for children addresses a child’s “occupations” or the activities and roles that they engage in daily, in order for them to develop the skills necessary to become functional and independent adults in the home, school, and community.
Our occupational therapists devise treatment programs for children aged birth through adolescence, which focus on achieving functional independence by addressing:
upper body strength and functionmotor planning and praxisbody awareness and environment safetybilateral coordination skills and balancevisual motor/visual perceptual skillsfine motor development necessary for toy play and writing tasksfacilitation of developmental milestonesself care activities including dressing, grooming, fastener manipulation, utensil use and feeding skillsfeeding aversions/oral defensiveness/hyper and hyposensitivties to various food textureshandwriting skillsthe integration of sensory systems to help the child learn how to process and integrate sensoryinput in an organized and meaningful way so that he/she is able to interact more successfullywith the environment.* Therapeutic listening is a program that is offered for children with sensory integration disorders, which uses sound based stimulation to help children become better able to identify, categorize, and tolerate various stimuli.
Our occupational therapists treat a variety of diagnoses which include but are not limited to:
Autism and autism spectrum disorders
Sensory integration dysfunction
CP and neuromuscular disorders
Down Syndrome
Learning disabilities/ dysgraphia
Apraxia/dyspraxia
Feeding aversions/oral motor difficulties
Developmental delay
Musculoskeletal impairments as a result of pathology ( juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, arthrogryposis)
