Occupational Therapy

Empower your child for success.

When a child has challenges or delays within their developmental progress, it can feel confusing, overwhelming, and difficult for many parents. If this is you, you’re not alone.

As occupational therapists, we want to help ease any fear, frustration, or helplessness you’re feeling by partnering with you and your child, equipping you both with the tools to be empowered, supported, and successful.

Seeking occupational therapy services will help your child enhance their development to be as successful and independent as possible in life. As occupational therapists, we’ll meet your child right where they are and design a treatment plan that matches their skills and supports them in growing into their fullest potential.

Occupational therapy can help with many areas as it pertains to your child’s development.

Strengthen fine motor skills.

Help strengthen fine motor muscles, coordination, and daily activities such as dressing, eating, playing, scissors, shoe-tying, buttons, and handwriting skills.

An occupational therapist can help with fine motor skills from many angles to include the following: grasps and motor skill development, bilateral coordination (using both hands together or for stabilization and manipulation), hand-eye coordination skills, and visual-motor skills (both of which are extremely important for function tasks like feeding, dressing, coloring, and more).

Additionally, believe it or not, core strength and stability also play a role in your child’s fine motor skills. That’s why working on developing a strong core and upper body is so important!

Make feeding and eating easier.

If you have an extremely picky eater, a child who has trouble using utensils or struggling with another feeding or eating concern, occupational therapy can help.

Depending on your child’s specific needs, there are different approaches and treatments for feeding and eating skills. Strengthening oral-motor skills, expanding preferred and accepted food ranges, decreasing food sensitivity, utilizing various strategies, and helping improve your child’s self-feeding skills are all areas occupational therapy can help.

Gain independence in activities of daily living.

From play to social skills and interactions, grooming, bathing, dressing, eating, and more, sometimes delays hinder children from achieving complete independence in these areas of life.

Occupational therapy helps to address these roadblocks and will help your child become independent and successful through their day-to-day life.

Depending on your child’s unique needs, we’ll look at different exercises and activities to help your child’s self-help skills and self-care activities.

Does your child struggle with big emotions or social situations?

When playdates fall apart, transitions turn into meltdowns, or everyday interactions feel overwhelming, it can be hard to know how to help. Occupational therapy supports children in building the skills they need to connect with others and feel more in control of their emotions.

Through guided support, children can learn how to take turns, understand personal space, read social cues, build friendships, and make sense of their own feelings. These are the skills that help kids feel confident at school, at home, and with peers.

Emotional regulation is the ability to calm the body and mind when things feel too big. If your child experiences frequent tantrums, shutdowns, or emotional explosions, occupational therapy can help them develop tools to manage those moments, recover more quickly, and handle challenges in a healthier way.

The goal is simple: help your child feel understood, capable, and connected.

Learn to navigate Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).

Sensory processing disorder can make it challenging for children to process sensory input from day-to-day living.

While some children may require more sensory input to achieve a well-regulated state, others may require different strategies to minimize sensory input to achieve regulation. Occupational Therapy can help your child learn different sensory strategies to navigate the challenges of SPD.

Some children with SPD may have difficulty or discomfort wearing specific clothing, may be startled or have trouble tolerating certain noises or light, or sometimes even have trouble focusing in a busy environment.

Improve Cognitive Skills.

Cognitive skills include attention, memory, auditory processing, visual processing, and higher executive functions to help the brain learn, think, pay attention, and solve problems.

Occupational therapy can help your children develop and sharpen their cognitive skills.

Special Needs or Development Delay need special attention.

Sometimes, life can feel overwhelming and challenging, especially when a child is diagnosed with special needs or a developmental delay.

From Down syndrome to autism, failure to thrive, or even globalized weakness, occupational therapy can help your children gain strength and work toward certain milestones using therapeutic activities and exercises.

Together, we’ll work on designing “just right challenge” for your child, whether it be core strength, range of motion, or learning how to navigate their environment. Occupational therapy will utilize play and other modalities to help your child thrive and be the strongest they can be!

Utilizing exercises with physioballs, dynamic surfaces, and body weight activities are examples of what we can do in session to help your child get stronger and work toward their milestones. You are not alone on this journey, and we’re here to help support you and your child on this amazing journey.

Let’s help your child overcome what’s holding them back.

Occupational therapy can address many conditions, including those listed on this page and more.

Our goal is to help your child thrive, and we’re honored to be on this journey with you.