OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

If you have questions about your child’s development (not speaking, crawling, walking, eating, playing) as other children the same age then research supports finding solutions early gives your child the best chances of having a normal life.  Therapists 2 GO will help walk you through the process and educate you to the resources needed for you to successfully advocate for your child.   Give us a call a case manager will contact you within 24 hours.

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If you think your child needs help and you don't know what steps to take a Therapists 2 Go case manager will walk you through the steps.

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.

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Brooklyn, NY 11207

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