An Occupational Therapist plays a key role in helping your child reach maximum independence at home and school by addressing their physical and sensory challenges. Our occupational therapists address wide areas of development including fine motor skills, visual-perceptual skills, eye-hand coordination, self-help skills including dressing, self-feeding etc, sensory regulation, oral aversion, activity attention etc.
WHO SHOULD BENEFIT
- Babies who are difficult to calm or seems to go from happy to cranky in no time.
- Babies with reflux related regulation issues such as frequent arching of back, un-consolable crying.
- Toddlers with tactile aversion. Some typical complaints we hear are:
- "I cannot brush my child's teeth."
- "I dread bath-time, I cannot wash my baby's hair."
- "Changing diaper is an ordeal."
- "My baby does not like to get messy."
- "My toddler is constantly on the go; I cannot get him to stay in one place for a whole minute."
- "He does not have much interest in people".
- Atypical interest in lining toys, spinning objects or difficulty with eye contact.
- Muscle weakness such as hypotonia, hypertonia etc.
- Oral-aversions: Refuses table foods, gags and/or vomits frequently.
- Cerebral-palsy and other neurological disorders.
- Infants and toddlers with limited fine motor abilities.
HOW WE CAN HELP
- Comprehensive initial evaluations.
- Team evaluations when appropriate.
- Individual Occupational Therapy.
- Sensory Integration.
- Strengthening and ADLs.
- Motor planning and visual perception.
- Fine motor activities.
- Handwriting issues.
- PECS and assistive devices.
- IEP Consultations.
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