Occupational Therapy
Unlock your child’s potentialWhat is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapy helps children enhance their fine motor skills, self-care abilities, and capacity to work and play effectively. For children, their “occupation” includes playing, learning, and interacting with family and friends. Our pediatric occupational therapy services aim to boost your child’s independence, self-esteem, and sense of achievement in these crucial areas.
What Do Occupational Therapists Do?
Occupational Therapists utilize diverse treatments and activities to develop the skills children need for daily living, including self-care, work, and play. These activities often focus on improving areas such as fine motor, visual-motor, visual perceptual, sensory processing, and self-care skills.
Depending on your child’s unique needs, our therapy sessions may involve exercises to enhance strength and dexterity, increase range of motion and mobility, improve balance and coordination, and refine visual or sensory processing. Our goal is to help your child perform functional skills more effectively and independently.
Would My Child Benefit From Occupational Therapy?
Your child’s doctor might recommend Occupational Therapy for your child if he or she has been injured or has limitations from an illness, disease, or disability. Occupational Therapy may be needed any time a child has difficulty with fine motor/handwriting skills, visual motor/visual processing impairments, sensory processing difficulties, or performance of daily living skills.
Occupational Therapy can benefit children with:
- autism spectrum disorder
- developmental delays
- cerebral palsy
- genetic disorders
- sensory processing disorders
- feeding concerns
- orthopedic disabilities
- heart and lung conditions
- birth defects (such as spina bifida)
- effects of in-utero drug or alcohol exposure
- acute trauma
- head injury
- limb deficiencies
- muscle diseases
Why Choose Allied Pediatric Therapy for Your Child’s Occupational Therapy Program?
Our Occupational Therapists utilize play based treatment strategies to teach your child the skills they need to interact purposefully and appropriately with their peers and family.
Our Occupational Therapy staff knows ways to motivate your child to participate in activities that strengthen the muscles of their core, shoulders, arms and hands to promote improved independence when performing a variety of fine motor skills.
Picky eating is a struggle for many children! We have Occupational Therapists on staff who specialize in helping your picky eater expand their diet. Our therapists will work with you to identify your child’s specific needs and provide you with strategies to carry over at home during mealtime.
If your child is struggling with daily tasks like dressing and feeding, our Occupational Therapists can help! Our therapists specialize in providing your child with appropriate strategies and adaptations to maximize function and independence with these types of self-help skills.
Allied Pediatric Therapy understands the importance of treating the whole child and addressing all body systems that impact functional deficits. We have Physical and Occupational Therapists on staff who are Pediatric Functional Vision Rehabilitation Specialists. If you feel like your child’s vision is negatively impacting their development and function, we may be able to help.