Pediatric Occupational Therapy
What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy?
Could my child benefit?
Occupational therapists (OTs) evaluate and support kids in their daily “occupations” by teaching skills needed to play, learn, socialize, self-regulate emotions and behaviors, adapt to physical and cognitive changes, and become independent with self-care.
Pediatric occupational therapy addresses the following:
- Abnormal muscle tone
- Activities of daily living
- Adaptive equipment
- Assistive technology
- Executive functioning skills
- Fine motor development
- Handwriting
- Home management
- Joint range of motion and function
- Motor planning and coordination
- Neuromuscular development and re-education
- Orthotic and prosthetic function and training
- Positioning and caregiving routines
- Problem solving and cognitive skills
- Self-care
- Self-regulation
- Sensory integration and modulation
- Strength
- Social skills
- Visual motor and visual perceptual skills
Children with the following conditions are commonly evaluated and treated by pediatric occupational therapists:
- ADD/ADHD
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Brachial plexus injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Developmental coordination disorder
- Developmental delay
- Down syndrome
- Executive function difficulties
- Genetic conditions
- Handwriting difficulties
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Learning disorders
- Limb deficiency or amputation
- Metabolic conditions
- Muscular dystrophy
- Premature birth
- Selective eating
- Sensory processing disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visual impairment
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Gerald Deocariza Jr
Occupational Therapist
Sachiko "Sachi" Senteno
Occupational Therapist
Anna Luse
Occupational Therapist
Sydney Gayton
Occupational Therapist