We focus on helping children achieve independence in all areas of their lives. OT can help your child with various needs improve their cognitive, physical, and motor skills and enhance their self-esteem and sense of accomplishment. Your child’s main job is playing and learning, and occupational therapists can evaluate your childs skills for playing, school performance, and daily activities and compare them with what is developmentally appropriate for that age group. In addition to dealing with someone’s physical well-being, our OT practitioners address psychological, social, and environmental factors that can affect functioning in different ways. This approach makes OT a vital part of health care for some kids.

Our Occupational therapists will:

• Help a child work on fine motor skills so they can grasp and release toys
  and develop good handwriting skills
• Address hand-eye coordination to improve a childs play skills
  (hitting a target, batting a ball, copying from a blackboard, etc.)
• Help a child with severe developmental delays learn basic tasks
  (such as bathing, getting dressed, brushing their teeth, and feeding themselves)
• Help a child with behavioral disorders learn anger-management techniques
  (i.e., instead of hitting others or acting out, using positive ways to deal with anger,
  such as writing about feelings or participating in a physical activity)
• Teach a child with physical disabilities the coordination skills needed to feed themselves, use a computer, or increase the speed and legibility of their handwriting
• Evaluate a childs need for specialized equipment, such as wheelchairs, splints,
  bathing equipment, dressing devices, or communication aids
• Work with a child who has sensory and attentional issues to improve focus and social skills