Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapists at Therapists 2 Go are trained experts in evaluating children, setting up individual treatment programs and working with families and other professionals. Children receiving occupational therapy (OT) may have difficulties with:

• Development of physical motor skills
• Cognitive and visual perceptual skills
• Sensory integration and processing/modulation sensory information from their environment
• Feeding and swallowing deficits and difficulties
• Deficits with their abilities to do self care skills
• Decreased strength, endurance and range of motion of muscle and joints
• Adaptive equipment needs

An Occupational Therapist sees children with various diagnoses that can include

• Developmental delays
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Down Syndrome
• Traumatic brain injury
• Stroke
• Brain tumor
• Complex medical history that is affecting development
• Medically fragile child
• Feeding problems
• Orthopedic conditions
• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
• Cerebral palsy
• Oncology
• Sensory integrative disorders
• Other medical conditions that affect children from obtaining appropriate functional skills.

Occupational therapy services/programs

Occupational therapists at Therapists 2 Go Early Intervention Program are proud to offer individual treatment sessions to work on skill development in their deficit areas:

• Fine and gross motor skills
• Handwriting
• Infant massage
• Positioning and adaptive equipment needs
• Self-care skills
• Sensory Integration and Modulation evaluation and therapy
• Splinting
• Therapeutic Listening Programming
• Visual perceptual and Perceptual Motor

If a family has concerns about their child’s:

• General level of performance with motor skills, visual perceptual and task completion
• Ability to be involved and active with their self care skills (dressing, grooming)
• Delays or difficulty playing with toys and others
• Decreased strength, endurance and range of motion
• Ability to organize, calm self and cope with information that they perceive from their environment (sensory processing)
• Feeding and swallowing
• Need for splints, adaptive equipment or positioning devices

Talk with your physician about an OT evaluation to address these concerns. When a parent/caregiver has concerns about one or several of these areas, a referral can be initiated by calling any of our sites.