play opens windows of opportunity.
We offer evaluations, consultations at our clinic, your home, or your child's school, weekly treatment sessions, and summer intensives. We also provide in-service training for teachers and parents.
Assessment: An occupational therapy assessment is critical to understanding your child's strengths and challenges; and needs to be completed prior to starting treatment. The evaluation includes standardized assessment; clinical observation; parent interview; and a teacher interview and school visit if necessary. Our goal during the evaluation process is to establish a baseline of skills, provide recommendations for ongoing therapy (if needed); provide strategies and activities for home and school; and provide parent education. Following your child's evaluation, a parent meeting will be scheduled to discuss the evaluation results, recommendations, and answer any questions you may have. A school meeting can also be scheduled to review evaluation results with your child's teachers.

Treatment: Following your child's evaluation, treatment will begin to address the areas identified in the evaluation. Although treatment often looks like play, the therapist frequently adapts activities that are chosen by the child to provide the "just right challenge" for success. When a child is intrinsically motivated by an activity, they learn faster and are more likely to generalize the skills acquired during therapy sessions. Our goal is to build foundational skills so that the child can learn in his or her natural environment and build upon his or her foundation. Both play and novelty are important for brain development.

Consultation: We provide consultation at home and at school as needed to educate parents and teachers; provide home and school activity programs; and provide strategies to help your child succeed in a variety of settings.

Summer Intensives: During the summer, children can attend therapy sessions 3-5 times each week for several weeks as an intensive therapy session. This is a good option for families who will be away for a large part of the summer or for children who do not have time for occupational therapy during the school year.

In-Service Training: We provide in-services for parents and teachers on topics such as sensory integration, fine motor skills and handwriting, and self-regulation (The Alert Program).

We provide treatment using the following therapies and programs. Sensory Integration Therapy: Sensory Integration therapy is child directed therapy. The therapist sets up the environment to provide sensory experiences and opportunities (including vestibular, proprioceptive, and tactile input) so the child forms an adaptive response to integrate the sensations and help with brain development. The goal is to create the "just right challenge", so the child feels successful, but not overwhelmed. Because sensory integration therapy is based on play, the child's interests and choices guide the therapist's selection of therapeutic activities. The goal is to help the child function better physically, emotionally, and academically, rather than to teach one specific motor skill.

Perceptual Enrichment Program: The Perceptual Enrichment Program (PEP) is a non-academic cognitive perceptual program that uses developmentally sequenced perceptual tasks to improve visual perception, problem solving, sequencing, and spatial organization. PEP facilitates the coordination of the brain hemispheres, enabling abstract and creative problem solving in the frontal cortex.

The Alert Program: The Alert Program (a.k.a. "How Does Your Engine Run") is a program that educates teachers, parents, and children how to monitor their state of alertness and choose appropriate strategies to change or maintain their state of alertness. For more information, visit The Alert Program. www.alertprogram.com

Handwriting Without Tears: A handwriting program that teaches simple vertical style letters using a multi-sensory systematic method of teaching. For more information, visit Handwriting Without Tears. www.hwtears.com

Loops and Other Groups: A kinesthetic approach to cursive handwriting that teaches the letters in groups that share common movement patterns.

Therapeutic Listening: Therapeutic Listening is a program that combines modulated music with sensory integrative activities to improve sensory modulation, attention, behavior, postural organization, and speech and language difficulties. For more information, visit Vital Links. www.vitallinks.net

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