Occupational Therapy services

WhY Occupational Therapy?

Your child may benefit from Occupational Therapy if they have difficulty performing their play, education, self-care, or life functions. Our Occupational Therapists use an individualized program of different techniques and methods targeted to address your child's specific needs order to help them reach their maximum potential of independent function. Some examples of areas that can be improved on include:

• Self-care skills – dressing, self-feeding, personal hygiene and grooming
• Fine motor development – handwriting, grasping, cutting, shoe tying, in-hand manipulation, fine motor dexterity and coordination
• Gross motor development – improve motor planning, eye-hand coordination, strength, endurance and balance
• Play exploration and participation – pretend play, games with rules, constructive play, play skills with peers
• Safety and body awareness – following directions and improving attention
• Sensory processing and regulation

TDLC’s Occupational Therapy Program

Tangible Difference Learning Center’s OT program provides the unique opportunity for collaboration among groups of therapists. We provide a variety of different programs all in one place, including applied behavior analysis (ABA), social skills classes, speech therapy, and professional counseling services. Skills that are being taught during the OT sessions can also be carried over into our speech, social skills, or ABA sessions, and vice versa. We pride ourselves on providing all-in-one, comprehensive, and quality treatment for our clients!

Our occupational therapy program prides itself in its ability to address behaviors and other issues that may interfere with the learning process, thus helping maximize therapy benefits for each child. Specifically, our in-depth experience with children with autism puts us in a unique position; we understand how to best provide occupational therapy services to individuals with autism and overcome the particular difficulties they may encounter. 

How To Begin?

Give us a call or send us an email to set up an appointment for an OT evaluation. Our OTs will conduct an evaluation to determine the need, nature, and/or severity of your child’s concerns. Upon completion, the evaluation will be explained to the parent, including reccomendations for therapy and at-home practice.

Occupational therapy sessions are typically 50 minutes. Each session is followed by communication with the parent or caregiver, discussing progress and any home-programs recommended to facilitate in the carry-over of new skills.

Some of the information on this page can also be found at: http://www.aota.org/Consumers/consumers/Youth.aspx