Occupational Therapy
Our Occupational Therapy team provides assessment and treatment services for infants and children who have difficulty performing every day activities.
The team provides a therapeutic program tailored to your child’s individual nee. Occupational Therapy focuses on:
*Fine Motor/Visual Motor Integration Skills
- Grasping
- Writing
- Cutting
- Daily Skills such as using utensils, dressing (buttons, zippers, shoe tying).
- Play Activities
*Pre-writing and Handwriting
*Visual perception - is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum reflected by the objects in the environment.
*Bilateral coordination - refers to the ability to coordinate both sides of the body at the same time in a controlled and organized manner; such as holding paper while cutting with scissors or lacing beads require the right and left sides of the body to work together.
*Sensory Integration - is the process that organizes sensation from one's own body and the environment, thus making it possible to use the body effectively within the environment.
*Motor planning - It allows us to know, remember, and perform small steps that make a particular movement or task happen.
*Strength and endurance
*Life skills
*Visual perception - is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum reflected by the objects in the environment.
*Bilateral coordination - refers to the ability to coordinate both sides of the body at the same time in a controlled and organized manner; such as holding paper while cutting with scissors or lacing beads require the right and left sides of the body to work together.
*Sensory Integration - is the process that organizes sensation from one's own body and the environment, thus making it possible to use the body effectively within the environment.
*Motor planning - It allows us to know, remember, and perform small steps that make a particular movement or task happen.
*Strength and endurance
*Life skills
Your child may be in need of occupational therapy if he or she:
- Becomes tired easily and has difficulty completing tasks which require strength or endurance.
- Exhibits difficulty playing with small objects.
- Utilizes Immature grasps, shows no hand preference, has poor pencil/crayon control.
- Unable to use scissors.
- Has visual perceptual difficulties, such as coloring within the lines, writing on a line with proper spacing, putting a puzzle together, or locating an object in a busy scene.
- Has challenges with getting dressed.
- Is sensitive to sensory stimulation including touch, textures, sounds, movement, taste, or light.
- Exhibits Sensory seeking behaviors.
- Difficulties with peer interaction.
- Demonstrates difficulties with attending to a task or following simple instructions.
- Has difficulty visually attending to a task or tracking with isolated eye movements which may be seen in tasks such as writing, reading, and catching a ball.
