Speech-language and sensory-motor challenges oftentimes go hand-in-hand. Having highly-skilled occupational therapists on our team helps ensure that our children can participate in the activities of everyday life.
Occupational Therapy addresses:
Occupational Therapy addresses:
- Executive Functioning Skills: “get it done” skills
- Gross Motor Skills: movement and coordination of the arms, legs, and other large body parts and movements
- Fine Motor Skills: smaller movements that occur in the wrists, hands, fingers, feet and toes
- Sensory Processing and Modulation: the ability to take information from our senses, process it, and make appropriate and organized responses
- Social Emotional Development: development of self-regulation, engagement, purposeful communication, problem solving, symbolic comprehension, and pretend play
- Posture: assists with efficient movement and bodily control
- Handwriting: a complex task that requires multiple skills, including executive functioning
- Life skills: dressing, bathing, toileting, self-feeding, sleep-training, and managing all aspects of their school day