What is Occupational Therapy (OT)?
A child’s job, or occupation, is to play, to be independent in daily activities and succeed in school. Occupational Therapists treat children with delays or disorders that may inhibit their ability to be successful in these areas. Occupational Therapy engages children in activities that develop important fine motor skills (how to hold and manipulate objects), gross motor skills (how to be mobile in their environment), sensory processing skills (how a child filters and interprets sensory information), visual motor skills (eye-hand coordination), behavioral and thinking skills. Development in these areas improves performance in meaningful daily activities, including dressing, feeding, writing, play and social participation. Occupational Therapy focuses on enabling a child to complete valued daily activities as independently as possible, giving him/her feelings of mastery and confidence.
How I Can Help Your Child
You have come to this website likely because you have a concern related to your child that you’d like help with. Here are some ways that I can help you and your child:
Fine and Gross Motor Skills Development
Upper body and fine motor strengthening-pencil grasp, scissor use and more
Neurodevelopmental Facilitation Techniques
Bilateral coordination skills & balance
Activities of daily living training to include: dressing, feeding, grooming, fastener manipulation, tying shoe laces, utensil use, etc.
Visual Motor Integration/Visual Perceptual Skills
Pre-writing skills and handwriting training
Core-Strengthening/Postural Control
My Expertise
I have experience working with patients diagnosed with, but not limited to:
Developmental Delay
Sensory Integration Dysfunction / Sensory Processing Disorder
Feeding Aversion
Cerebral Palsy and Neuromuscular Disorders
Down Syndrome
Learning Disabilities/Dysgraphia
Acute and chronic childhood diseases including cancers, cardiac disease
Traumatic Brain Injury
Stroke
Delays associated with prematurity