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Does your child experience challenges with their participation with daily activities including self-care, productivity, or leisure activities?
Do they need support to reach developmental milestones and engage in age-appropriate activities?
The Pediatric OT can help!
WHAT CAN PEDIATRIC OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY DO FOR MY CHILD?
- Assess your child’s developmental needs and create a personalized therapy plan.
- Improve fine motor skills, such as writing, cutting, and buttoning clothes.
- Enhance gross motor skills, including balance, coordination, and strength.
- Support sensory processing to help your child respond appropriately to different stimuli.
- Develop cognitive skills, such as problem-solving, attention, and memory.
- Assist with social skills, including communication and interaction with peers.
- Provide strategies to improve self-care activities, like dressing and eating.
- Collaborate with teachers and other professionals to support your child’s learning and development.
- Monitor your child’s progress and adjust the therapy plan as needed.
- Offer guidance and resources to support your child’s development at home.
BENEFITS OF PEDIATRIC OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
✔ Enhanced fine and gross motor skills.
✔ Improved sensory processing and integration.
✔ Better cognitive function and problem-solving abilities.
✔ Increased independence in self-care activities.
✔ Improved social interactions and communication skills.
✔ Improved sensory processing and integration.
✔ Better cognitive function and problem-solving abilities.
✔ Increased independence in self-care activities.
✔ Improved social interactions and communication skills.
✔ Personalized therapy plans.
✔ Support for learning and academic success.
✔ Better emotional regulation and coping skills.
✔ Comprehensive support for families.
✔ Enhanced overall quality of life for the child.
✔ Support for learning and academic success.
✔ Better emotional regulation and coping skills.
✔ Comprehensive support for families.
✔ Enhanced overall quality of life for the child.
✔ Fine motor skills (small-muscle movements made with the hands and fingers such as grasping).
✔ Visual-motor skills β tracking an object, hand-eye coordination.
✔ Cognitive skills β problem-solving skills, memory, and attention.
✔ Delays in play and social interaction skills.
✔ Self-regulation.
✔ Visual-motor skills β tracking an object, hand-eye coordination.
✔ Cognitive skills β problem-solving skills, memory, and attention.
✔ Delays in play and social interaction skills.
✔ Self-regulation.
✔ Learning disabilities.
✔ Sleeping challenges.
✔ Sensory challenges.
✔ Sleeping challenges.
✔ Sensory challenges.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AIMS TO FACILITATE THE CHILDβS PARTICIPATION IN MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES SUCH AS:
- Self-care: getting dressed (buttons, tying shoelaces, etc.), feeding (picky eating, tolerating a variety of food/textures), mobility, sleeping, showering, grooming, and much more
- Productivity: playing skills, going to school and completing schoolwork (considering factors such as organizational skills, handwriting, manipulation of tools (pen/pencil, scissors, glue), attention, postural stability, mobility at school, etc.)
- Leisure: learning play skills, participation in sports and social activities, among many more.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS WORK TO SUPPORT CHILDREN WITH VARYING DIAGNOSES IMPACTING THEIR OCCUPATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING:
✔ Developmental coordination disorder
✔ Attention Deficit Disorder
✔ Birth injuries or birth defects
✔ Sensory processing disorders
✔ Traumatic injuries to the brain or spinal cord
✔ Learning problems
✔ Autism
✔ Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
✔ Mental health or behavioral problems
✔ Attention Deficit Disorder
✔ Birth injuries or birth defects
✔ Sensory processing disorders
✔ Traumatic injuries to the brain or spinal cord
✔ Learning problems
✔ Autism
✔ Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
✔ Mental health or behavioral problems
✔ Broken bones or other orthopedic injuries
✔ Developmental delays
✔ Post-surgical conditions
✔ Burns
✔ Spina bifida
✔ Traumatic amputations
✔ Cancer
✔ Severe hand injuries
✔ Multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and other chronic illnesses
✔ Developmental delays
✔ Post-surgical conditions
✔ Burns
✔ Spina bifida
✔ Traumatic amputations
✔ Cancer
✔ Severe hand injuries
✔ Multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and other chronic illnesses
OUR APPROACH
As occupational therapists, we complete comprehensive assessments that are individualized according to suspected challenges.
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENTS
We consider the following factors to ensure a thorough evaluation:
- Postural factors
- Sensory factors
- Behavior
- Environment
- Oral motor skills
- Gross motor skills
- Fine motor skills
CONTACT US
Please contact our clinic to obtain more information and make enquiries.