Occupational Therapy Services

Help your child gain independence and confidence!

The following insurance providers and payment methods are accepted:

Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield
United Healthcare
Cigna
Scott & White
Tricare
Private Pay (contact me for my private pay rates)

fine motor skills

Grasping and manipulating objects in the environment allows for greater independence in everyday life skills. For example, being able to grasp, rotate, and push a button through its hole to fasten pants or a coat. Or to be able to hold and change the grasp on a pencil or to operate scissors.

OT in Infancy

Targeted skills with developmental milestones (supported & independent sitting, rolling, crawling, pulling to stand, cruising, walking), tummy time tolerance, visual tracking, purposeful play, sensory exploration, self-soothing & emotional regulation, feeding progression, and tone, strength, and endurance training.

Common Diagnoses: prematurity, Torticollis, Plagiocephaly, failure to thrive, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and chromosomal abnormalities.

Sensory integration

Occupational therapists assist children and their families to learn skills to help regulate a child’s sensory needs. A child may be under-responsive or over-responsive to their environment and an occupational therapist can help determine their needs and provide recommendations to do at home in order to improve their participation.

Activities of Daily Living/Feeding

Improving independence with everyday life skills, such as, bathing, dressing, feeding, grooming, and toileting.

Play skills

A child’s “occupation” is to play. There are developmental play skills milestones that an occupational therapist can help a child learn and explore from their environment. Working on play skills may also address improving praxis, ideation, problem solving, and thinking skills.

Visual Motor Skills

Visual perceptual skills affect everything we do. This is how an individual interprets their environment visually. This may include eye-hand coordination, copying from the board, reading comprehension, and assessing how the eyes move to track objects within their environment.

Handwriting

Prewriting activities, letter formation, spacing, and fluency.