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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

WHAT IS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY?

Pediatric occupational therapists provide treatment to help children meet developmental milestones, overcome sensory challenges, and improve self-care, play, and self-regulation skills. Occupational therapy can help your child in the following areas:

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  • Moving (fine motor skills like using the small muscles of their hands)

  • Learning (cognitive skills)

  • Playing (social and emotional skills)

  • Activities of daily living (dressing and feeding)

  • Skills needed for their education (pre-writing, writing, and scissor skills)

  • Sensory processing integration

  • Motor planning and sequencing

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Pediatric occupational therapy can encourage children to write with a pencil, feed themselves, and play with their peers. Each child enrolled in pediatric occupational therapy will have individualized goals to meet their needs after a complete evaluation. 

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Pediatric Occupational Therapy

  • Functional Gross Motor Abilities

  • Fine Motor skills training

  • Assess and treat sensory processing disorders

  • Improve upper extremity muscle strength, endurance, range of motion, coordination, fine motor abilities, and function

  • Recommend strategies for managing decreased or emerging function and movement, including assistive equipment

  • Work on social and peer interaction skills

  • Provide education to caregivers

  • Phonological awareness/reading using Orton Gillingham

  • Consult with other professionals regarding the role of occupational therapy and how it can improve the child’s daily life

  • Collaborate with caregivers and children to create effective carry-over from the occupational therapy clinic to home

  • Visual-Perceptual Motor Skills

  • Self Help Skills

Pediatric Occupational Therapy Boca Raton. A Pediatric Occupational therapist playing with a little girl in a ball pit.

Orton Gillingham

Handwriting Without Tears

Orton-Gillingham is a highly structured approach that breaks reading and spelling down into smaller skills involving letters and sounds and then builds on these skills over time. It was the first approach to use explicit, direct, sequential, systematic, and multi-sensory instruction to teach reading, which is effective for all students and essential for teaching students with dyslexia.

Handwriting Without Tears is a proven program for teaching handwriting to children. Developed by OTs, it uses multisensory techniques to make writing fun.

Reading Together
Girl at School
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