PEDIATRIC OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Sensible Rehab pediatric therapists focus on promoting growth and development as well as supporting the family and caregivers with education. Occupational therapist’s focus on you and your child’s needs and goals to maximize overall independence, success, and functioning. Occupational therapy can help kids improve their cognitive, physical, sensory, and motor skills and enhance their self-esteem and sense of accomplishment. An occupational therapist will evaluate the individual with the help and support of caregivers and families, develop individualized goals that address the current concerns that are impeding the individuals overall participation in everyday life, and develop a treatment plan to optimize success and allow your child to be as independent as possible.
Sensory Processing
- Establishing sensory diets
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- Techniques from Sensory Integration approach
- Therapeutic Listening Program
- Pre-writing academic skills
- Handwriting Programs
- Handwriting Without Tears
- Scissor skills
- Utensil use
Gross Motor Skills
- Upper Body and Lower Body strengthening
- Fall Prevention Programs
- Safety Awareness
- Coordination and Motor planning
Social-Emotional Skills
- Social Skills and Peer Interactions
- Relationships with peers and adults
- Emotional regulation
- Building Play Skills
Self-Care Skills
- Activities of daily living (ADL): Dressing, Bathing, Toileting (Potty Training), Sleeping, Eating
- Bedtime Routines
- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL): Driving, cooking, cleaning, managing finances, work skills
Visual Perceptual Processing
- Visual Attention
- Visual Discrimination
- Visual-Motor Difficulties
Feeding
- Picky Eating
- SOS Feeding Therapy
- Oral Motor skills
- Developmental Food Continuum
- Using Utensils
Cognitive Processing
- Memory
- Planning and Organization
- Time Management and Self-Control
- Improving attention
Behavior
- Managing challenging behaviors due to underlying deficits
- Sensory processing deficits
- Emotional regulation
- Attending to tasks