Occupational Therapy Services for Children of All Ages
How can therapy help?
- Facilitate normal development and stimulate early learning
- Improve self-regulation of attention and behavior
- Decrease motor restlessness, and/or hyperactivity (ADHD) by improving sensory processing
- Improve ability to listen and follow directions, as well as central auditory processing
- Improve balance, coordination, movement awareness and overall strength
- Reduce or alleviate phobias and separation anxiety
- Improve health and overall well-being
- Improve handwriting and eye-hand coordination
- Improve motor development, self-concept, emotional maturation, perceptual cognitive processes and communication through sensory integrative therapy
- Promote independence in essential life skills pertaining to self-care, mobility, and social adjustment
- Formal Evaluation and screenings:
- Fine and/or gross motor development
- Handwriting/visual motor development
- Visual Spatial & body awareness
- Postural control, balance and bilateral coordination/strength
- Sensory processing
- Infant toddler/Pre-K development
Treatment
Uniquely designed sensory motor gyms with specialized suspension system specifically constructed to meet the needs of children with sensory processing disorders and motor coordination challenges.
Each of the 3 large sensory –motor gyms, are equipped with state of the art “overhead expansive hook system” to support specialized suspended equipment unlike any other therapy clinic in the area.
- Direct one-to-one individualized occupational therapy sessions.
- Parallel or group sessions for socialization for 2 or more children.
- Sensory diets for classroom and home programs
- School visits
- Auditory Integration interventions using Vital Links Therapeutic Listening programs.
Occupational Therapy Services for Children, Inc.
Occupational Therapy is a health profession that uses purposeful activities to facilitate development of:
- Fine & Gross motor skills
- Posture, muscle tone & balance
- ADL- Activities of Daily Living self-care
- Body movement, body awareness & body scheme
- Handwriting & eye-hand coordination
- Visual-spatial skills
- Oral-motor skills
- Sensory integration/Praxis
- Attention and arousal
- Central auditory processing and listening skills
- Skills to support age appropriate ADLs
What children need occupational therapy?
- Children who are experiencing subtle difficulties, despite average or above average intelligence, in one or more of the following areas:
- Coordination
- Handwriting
- Social/emotional development
- Postural security/sensory processing
- Children with emotional disturbances, behavioral problems, and phobic behaviors such as:
- Separation anxiety
- Vestibular processing disorder (G.I.)
- Sensory/tactile defensiveness
- Self-regulation difficulties
- Children with a developmental or learning disability, such ans dyslexia, delayed motor development, of scholastic/academic underachievement
- Children with:
- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
- Sensory and/or motor deficits
- Autism & Sensory Processing disorders/ PDD
- Dyspraxia/ motor planning disorder
- Developmental delay
- Post-institutionalized syndrome
- Closed head injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Fetal Alcohol syndrome
- Other neurological learning and behavior disorders
We provide occupational therapy for children from infancy through adolescence.
Services Provided
- Formal Evaluation and screenings:
- Fine and / or gross motor skills
- Visual Spatial & body awareness
- Postural control, balance and bilateral coordination/strength
- Sensory integration
- Autism & Sensory Processing Disorder
- Treatment Interventions: A unique clinic setting using specialized and state-of-the-art equipment with 20+ suspension units.
- Direct on-to-one individualized therapy (Sensory Integration/Brain Gym and /or traditional occupational therapy services)
- Group therapy for 2 or more