What is Occupational Therapy?

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Occupational therapy looks like kids are just playing, but within that play, we build in a variety of ways to teach new developmental skills. Your child's "occupation" is to learn and grow. OT helps address anything that may be interfering with your child's ability to develop all the skills that help them thrive at home and at school.  

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What is Sensory Integration?

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Your child is taking in information from the world around us and needs to determine in a split second what information to pay attention to, what information to ignore, and how to respond. Our nervous system and sensory systems keep us safe. Motor development, social skills, and the ability to stay regulated can all be impacted if we aren’t getting reliable information from our senses.

OTs are uniquely trained to address sensory challenges through a variety of interventions. Parenting a child with sensory differences can be difficult and skilled OT intervention can help. To learn more about sensory integration: https://pathways.org/topics-of-development/sensory/.

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How do I know if my child needs occupational therapy?

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Sometimes as a parent you instinctively know your child is not developing in the way you expected and you want things to be easier for them.  You might see them struggling with:

• inability to calm themselves when frustrated or anxious

• fine motor skills like writing or cutting

• the ability to focus and learn at school

• gross motor skills like throwing, catching, balancing

• making friends their own age

• respecting the personal space of peers

• being independent with daily activities of life like toileting, cutting their food, fastening their clothing

• being overly sensitive to sensory input like movement, textures, sounds, lights etc

• being under reactive to sensory input and seeking to excessively move, touch things, make noises etc                  

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Development builds upon itself, so the earlier we can intervene the less compounded these issues become. Rather than grow out of things, children tend to compensate. As children become aware that some things are more challenging for them than their peers, it can impact their self-esteem and social relationships.

We want them to feel successful and understand that any challenges are not because something is "wrong". We want to empower them to use their strengths to help them in the areas that are more challenging. 

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Do you accept insurance?

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Although I do not bill insurance, I provide families with a monthly super bill, which contains all of the information necessary to submit for out-of-network benefits. The best way to find out what out-of-network benefits you have is to contact your insurance plan. I am happy to fill out any additional forms that specific insurance companies may require.

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If my child is going to be seen in the clinic, where is it located?

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We will meet at Children Therapy Services where I collaborate with the clinic founder, Denise Modolo MS/OTR/L. See map below.

www.childrenstherapyservices.net

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