Pediatric Occupational therapy is a profession concerned with helping children of all ages to better perform daily tasks. For children, tasks may include eating, dressing, grooming, writing, playing, or learning. An OT evaluates then designs challenges that build on your child’s unique strengths to facilitate progression through developmental skills.
Areas of Occupational Therapy
Attention Span & Arousal Level
Sensory Processing Skills
Fine Motor and Gross Motor Skills
Activities of Daily Living
Visual Perception Skills
Handwriting
Assistive Technology
What is Physical Therapy?
Treatments focus on improving gross motor skills, balance, coordination, strength, endurance and mobility. Children with developmental delays, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and torticollis are a few of the patients treated by pediatric physical therapists.
Areas of Physical Therapy
Balance & Coordination On Stable & Mobile Surfaces
Climbing & Operating Toys That Require Both Arms & Legs
Transfers & Moving Through Barriers
Gain Strength, Range of Motion, & Alignment
Visual-Perceptual Motor Control
What is Speech Pathology?
Speech Therapy for pediatrics is more than just “speech”…Speech Therapists may address not only a child’s ability to communicate, but also a child’s ability to breastfeed or to safely swallow food and liquid, a child’s ability to listen and comprehend directions or a child’s ability to function in a variety of social settings.
A play based approach is often the most appropriate for young children while a more structured setting may be best for older children.
