Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy is a blend of art and science concerned with the “occupations” of daily living.  Occupational therapy includes sensory and neuromotor activities along with play activities to optimize a child’s capacity to function independently at home, in school, and in the community.  Our therapists provide creative solutions and resources for success in daily activities of self help, play, and school work.

Areas our therapists may provide evaluation and treatment include but are not limited to the following:
  • Fine motor and gross motor development
  • Infant development
  • Strength and range of motion
  • Coordination, balance, core strength and postural control
  • Activities of daily living such as: feeding, dressing, bathing, hygiene,
    meal preparation
  • Sensory processing skills
  • Functional attention difficulties
  • Adaptive equipment and positioning (feeding and dressing devices,
    handwriting utensil modifications, etc.)
  • Organizational and play skills
  • Visual motor and perceptual skills
  • Handwriting

Sensory Integration
Sensory integration is the ability to organize and process incoming sensory information received through the environment into our bodies. From this sensory information, we produce purposeful and goal directed responses. Our responses to sensory information can be appropriate allowing us to function in our daily lives independently or they can be negative causing an abnormal response and development. Negative responses to sensory information can be any of the signs and symptoms listed below.

Signs and Symptoms of Sensory Processing Difficulties:
  • Irritated by touch and/or tactile input (types of clothing, tags in clothes, paint on hands, dirt, bathing, etc.)
  • Overly sensitive to sound, light, smell, and/or movement, food tastes/textures
  • Decreased or no safety awareness
  • Difficulty establishing sleep/wake cycle
  • Difficulty tolerating changes in routine
  • Easily distracted
  • High or low activity level
  • Impulsivity
  • Inability to calm self
  • Delayed skill development
  • Social and/or emotional problems
  • Clumsiness
  • Under reactive to touch, movement, sights, sounds, food tastes/textures
  • Difficulty with transitions
  • Postural difficulties
  • Tantrums
  • Poor eye contact
  • Delayed perceptual skills  (clarify)
  • Sensory integration difficulties

Typically, a child with a sensory integrative disorder will show more than one of the above signs.
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