Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Our Pediatric Occupational Therapists focus on facilitating age appropriate Functional Occupational Performance (exploratory-manipulative skills, social play behaviors, self help skills: dressing, toilet training, eating and feeding.) By utilizing a combination of clinical approaches: Biomechanical, Motor Learning and Motor Control, Sensory/Motor Processing, the occupational therapist supports the client and care giver to conduct daily activities to build up the client's age appropriate self awareness self confidence, and independence.
Occupational Therapy Focus
- Self-Regulation
- Attention/ Organization of Behavior
- Sensory-Motor Processing/Praxis
- Therapeutic Listening Program
- Visual/ Motor Development
- Hand Function/Fine Motor Skills
- Social Emotional Development
- Environmental Adaptations
- Orofacial Sensory Motor/ Feeding Skills
- Handwriting Skills
- Social/ Play Skills
- Self-Help Skills (ADL's)
Common Diagnosis
- Prematurity
- Developmental Delays
- Learning Disabilities
- Neurological Disorders
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Sensory Processing Disorders
- Swallowing/Feeding & Eating Disorders
- Genetic & Chromosomal Disorders
- Down Syndrome
- Prader Willi Syndrome
- Structural, Anatomical, & Congenital Abnormalities
- Cardiac & Respiratory Disorders
- Torticollis, Plagiocephaly, Clubfoot
- Macroencephaly, Microencephaly
- Hand Therapy for Pre and Post-Surgery