For the Little Ones:
VITALITY KIDS
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!
Pediatric Occupational Therapy - How can we help?
The pediatric occupational therapist can assess skills and functional abilities in order to identify a child’s strengths and weaknesses. Through a collaborative approach with the family, they can then determine an intervention plan accordingly considering the child and family’s goals and needs in order to provide support in finding the just right challenge to promote learning and achievements.
Occupational therapy can help children with the following challenges:
- Fine motor skills (small-muscle movements made with the hands and fingers such as grasping)
- Visual-motor skills – tracking an object, hand-eye coordination
- Cognitive skills – problem-solving skills, memory, and attention
- Delays in play and social interaction skills
- Self-regulation
- Learning disabilities
- Sleeping challenges
- Sensory challenges
Occupational Therapy aims to facilitate the child’s participation in meaningful activities such as t
· 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
- 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
- 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
As occupational therapists, we complete comprehensive assessments - considering postural and sensory factors, behaviour, environment, as well as oral motor, gross and fine motor skills, etc. - individualized according to suspected challenges.
Please contact our clinic to obtain more information and make enquiries