Pediatric occupational therapy focuses on a child’s sensory and motor skills, emotional development, self-care abilities and play skills to help improve successful functioning in the home, at school and in the community.
Our occupational therapists work with a variety of conditions:
- Premature birth
- Congenital anomalies
- Neurological disorders
- Sensory processing difficulties
- Challenging behavior and socialization
- Neuromuscular disease
- Prenatal drug exposure
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Difficulty with handwriting
Occupational therapy may help children:
- Promote age-appropriate mobility and motor skills
- Facilitate developmental skills and play behaviors
- Improve feeding and oral skills
- Improve visual motor coordination
- Improve sensory processing skills
- Improve fine motor skills
- Improve behavioral state, organization and self-regulation
- Promote independence in daily living skills
- Provide environmental adaptations and/or adaptive equipment to enable increased independence