Pediatric Occupational Therapy
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Pediatric Outpatient Occupational Therapy staff provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment to improve functional skills incorporating physical and psychosocial and self care practices that are required in moving toward independence. Pediatric Occupational Therapists specialize in working with a wide range of diagnoses, developmental challenges and age levels on an individual basis with emphasis on home programming to develop daily routines that facilitate growth and development of age-related skills.
Pediatric Outpatient Occupational Therapy services are staffed by senior therapists specializing in work with:
- Autism Spectrum
- Cancer
- Developmental Coordination Disorder
- Fine motor delays
- Genetic syndromes
- Head injury
- Hypotonicity
- Neurologic disorders
- Orthopedic conditions
- Spina Bifida
- Sensory Integration Disorder
- Tremor
- Upper extremity amputation
- Upper limb hypertonicity
- Other complex needs
In addition to clinical consultation, specific program areas include:
- Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
- Brachial Plexus Injury
- Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) Involving the Upper Extremity
- Fine Motor Skill Development and Visual Motor Integration
- Sensory Integration (SI)
- Selective Posterior Rhizotomy Protocol (SPR)
- Upper Extremity Splinting/Serial Casting
Additional Program Areas
- Developmental Testing
- Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES)
- Kinesiotaping
- Upper Extremity Strengthening, endurance, and praxis (plan and execute movement)