Services
Occupational therapy
OT for kids 18 months to 11 years, by an in-house occupational therapist. Sensory, motor, and daily-living skills. Standalone or alongside ABA.
What our occupational therapist does
When people hear “occupational therapy,” most picture something for adults recovering from an injury. For kids it means something different entirely.
A child's occupation is simply everything they do in a day. It's getting dressed in the morning and sitting still long enough to learn at school. It's playing with another kid, and settling down to sleep at night. Our OT works on the skills that sit underneath all of that.
Some of that work is sensory, which is what's going on when your child covers their ears in a loud room or melts down over a shirt tag. Some of it is the hand strength and control behind holding a pencil or buttoning a coat. Some of it is the bigger physical work of balance and core strength, the kind your child leans on to sit still and stay focused. And some of it is the daily routines that turn out to be harder than they look, like getting dressed or getting out the door in the morning.
For kids who have a hard time with food, our OT also leads feeding therapy.
Our OT wrote a plain-language piece on what occupational therapy really does for an autistic child if you want to see what a session actually involves.
