Pediatric occupational therapy uses a variety of therapeutic techniques to develop, improve, or restore your child’s highest level of independence.
Your child is evaluated in a caring, nurturing environment to determine the precise nature of the developmental impairments. A comprehensive treatment plan and home program is then developed to best suit your child’s needs. Direct one-on-one treatment with your child is implemented in a sensory gym.
Evaluation and treatment is provided in the following areas:
• Sensory Integration
• Gross and Fine Motor Coordination
• Hand Function and Dexterity
• Visual Motor and Perceptual Skills
• Attention to Task
• Handwriting Skills
• Auditory Processing and Therapeutic Listening Skills
• Functional Communication and Behavioral Skills
Occupational therapy treatment is available for children who exhibit a wide array of developmental impairments. Specific diagnoses might include children with sensory integration dysfunction, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, developmental delay, pervasive developmental delay, cerebral palsy, and traumatic brain injury.
Signs of Sensory Integrative Dysfunction
Children who exhibit the following difficulties would benefit from occupational therapy services:
• Delays in gross motor development
• Decreased strength and endurance
• Low muscle tone
• Decreased balance
• Poor body awarenesss
• Delays in fine motor coordination
• Difficulty with visual motor / pereceptual skills
• Difficulty with handwriting
• Poor self-help skills (eating, dressing, hygiene)
• Decreased attention or distractability
• Poor self-regulation
• Difficulty with social and emotional development