Occupational Therapy

Neuroaffirming care recognizes and respects each child’s individual thinking style, communication pattern, and sensory profile without trying to change core identity traits. We honor autonomy and use the child’s strengths as the foundation for skill development. 

Self-care skills include dressing, toileting, grooming, sleep routines, and mealtime participation. Supporting the underlying difficulties within participation in these daily routines, such as balance, sequencing, attention & focus, fine motor skills and  identifying adaptive tools and strategies.

Fine motor skills can include a child's hand strength and endurance, coordination, and in-hand manipulation skills, and grasp development from picking up small pieces of food to their pencil grasp. 

Supporting the pre-crawling infant through regulation, early routines (i.e. sleep), breast & bottle feeding support, introducing solid food, and early motor milestones, such as head control, sitting and rolling. 

Treatment builds oral motor skills (i.e. strength & coordination) and supports the sensory nervous system to improve safety and participation in eating and mealtimes. 

Supporting your child and your family to be able to be included in social and community opportunities. From grocery stores, resturants, to playgrounds -  building an inclusive community will help your child and your family thrive! 

The sensory nervous system is the foundation of our learning. Processing their sensory world, including auditory, vision, taste, smell, touch, body position, movement,  and its relation to our social-emotional skills.​​

Helping children recognize their internal cues and build skills through steady, consistent co-regulation with caregivers. Families learn routines and strategies that help children participate in daily activities with greater regulation and engagement. 

Activities are chosen to support whole body movement, including core strength, bilateral coordination, and balance.

Building the foundational visual skills and how to develop the connection between their visual skills to their motor development. 

When primitive reflexes remain active past the early years, they can influence visual motor skills, gross motor coordination, emotional regulation, prolonged bed-wetting, and more. 

Identifying the executive functioning skills to allow your child to engage in meaningful daily routine. This can range from sequencing steps to get dressed in the morning, improving their impulsivity to reduce elopement on outings, building developmentally appropriate attention to routines or initiating and executing ideas.