Our Services
Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Pediatric Occupational Therapy addresses daily living skills for children of all ability levels using a fun, meaningful approach.
Areas of concern may include:
- Self-care skills (dressing, bathing, toileting, and tooth brushing)
- Executive functioning skills
- Fine motor coordination
- Handwriting
- Visual perception (the ability to make sense of what we see)
- Visual motor Integration (eye-hand coordination
- Sensory processing differences or difficulties
- Play and social interaction
- Motor planning
Pediatric Physical Therapy
Pediatric physical therapy involves total body physical rehabilitation due to injury, disease, or gross motor disorder. The goal of physical therapy is to restore and/or progress motor skills and mobility to achieve the highest potential outcomes for each individual child
Areas of concern may include:
- Walking and/or general mobility
- Toe walking
- Muscle strength and endurance
- Increased or low muscle tone
- Limitations in range of motion
- Balance
- Motor planning and coordination difficulties
- Skeletal growth, alignment and integrity
- Developmental delays in gross motor skills (rolling, sitting, crawling, etc.)
- Torticollis and Plagiocephaly
Aquatic Therapy
Aquatic therapy utilizes the physical properties of water to assist in patient healing and exercise performance. Aquatic therapy will provide the child the freedom to move their body in ways that are more challenging on land. Aquatic therapy can help children learn skills that they can transition and perfect during traditional land-based sessions.
Aquatic therapy sessions are currently conducted at the Downtown YMCA
Dynamic Movement Intervention
DMI is a therapeutic technique used to treat children with motor delays by improving automatic postural repsonses and promoting progress towards developmental milestones.
Sensory Based Feeding Therapy
Sensory based feeding therapy is a cognitive behavioral approach for children that are picky eaters or have food aversions that are significantly limiting their diet and ability to participate in social food experiences.
Treatment Approaches may include:
- Sensory Integration/Sensory Diet
- NDT (neurodevelopment treatment)
- Strengthening/coordination training
- Neuromuscular Re-education for balance and proprioception
- Handwriting programs
- ADL (activities of daily living) training
- Adaptive equipment and or environmental modifications
- Community Intergration
- Aquatic Therapy
- Vibration Plate
- Sensory Based feeding therapy
- Home programs/parent training
- Funtional Electrical Stimulation
- Dynamic Movement Intervention (Intro Level B certified)