Services Offered

Overview
Pediatric occupational therapists teach children to perform daily living skills. Treatment is provided for children and young adults with a variety of diagnoses including cerebral palsy, learning disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, brain injury and developmental delay.

Evaluation and Treatment
During the evaluation session, the therapist determines the areas which compromise functional independence.

Comprehensive Assessment:

• Neuromuscular status
• Gross motor skills
• Coordination and balance
• Fine motor skills
• Handwriting performance
• Sensory processing and integration
• Activities of daily living
• Auditory processing skills
• Oral motor skills - feeding
• Visual perceptual motor skills
• All standardized evaluation instrument

Family members are consulted during the evaluation process, and goals are established based on a mutual understanding of the patient's needs.

A variety of treatment approaches are utilized to achieve the therapy goals. Dressing, grooming, eating, playing, moving and interacting with others are purposeful activities for children which may be addressed in treatment. In addition, sensorimotor, visual perceptual, cognitive and psychosocial skill areas are addressed.

Therapeutic Intervention:

• sensory integration (SI)
• motor control/motor learning theories
• behavior management
• visual perceptual training
• Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT)
• Therapeutic ListeningTM
• Interactive Metronome©
• handwriting support
• daily living activities
• social skills
• modulation skills
• upper extremity strength and endurance
• handwriting skills

Specific Therapeutic Interventions:

"Interactive Metronome® is an advanced brain training treatment program designed to promote and enhance brain performance.  This is accomplished by utilizing advance neurosensory and neuromotor exercises developed to improve the brains inherent ability to repair or remodel itself through a process called neuroplasticity."(information obtained from the Interactive Metronome®official webpage)

For more information, go to the Interactive Metronome® page on this site.

Therapeutic Listening® :

"Therapeutic Listening® is a highly individualized method of auditory intervention utilizing electronically altered compact discs in protocols specifically tailored by sensory integrative professionals to match client need. Listening is a function of the entire brain; when we listen, we listen with the whole body. " (information obtained from the Therapeutic Listening®official webpage)

For more information, go to the Therapeutic Listening page on this site.

Education and Support

• professional conferences & referrals
• bimonthly information sessions for parents on sensory processing
• home programming

A home program and/or weekly recommendations will be made in order to increase your child's optimal success throughout the occupational therapy program.  These will be integrated into your daily schedule to assist you and your child reach increased functioning.

For Information and Referral
A prescription for an Occupational Therapy evaluation and/or treatment from a physician or other professional is required. For more information, please call 630.424.9100.