Providing Children with Skills to live full happy and Productive lives!
Serving Northern Virginia Families for over 17 Years
Providing Children with Skills to live full happy and Productive lives!
Serving Northern Virginia Families for over 17 Years
Learning Integrations
Services Offered
- Handwriting
- Academic Support/Learning Difficulties
- Support for Home Schooling
- Visual-motor integration
- Fine motor control and coordination
- Sensory/Motor Skills
- Gross motor control and coordination
- Self-care
- Mindfulness for Children and Families
- Social /Emotional Regulation
- Executive functioning skills
- Autism/PDD
What is Occupational Therapy?
Pediatric occupational therapy (OT) treatment focuses on helping children with a physical, sensory, or cognitive struggles to be as independent as possible in all areas of their lives. OT can help kids with various needs improve their cognitive, physical, sensory, and motor skills and enhance their self-esteem and sense of accomplishment.
According to the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), in addition to dealing with someone's physical well-being, OT practitioners address psychological, social, and environmental factors that can affect functioning in different ways.
How OT Works
Occupational therapists provide interventions to children who have or are at risk of having developmental delays and are experiencing difficulties functioning in one or more areas of their lives. Occupational therapy may include facilitating performance of coordinated motor skills and/or use of the hands, as well as promoting skills for listening and following directions, academic support, self-regulation, social play, dressing, and grooming. Some other areas of focus may include helping children improve abstract reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making, perceptual skills, as well as memory, sequencing, and motor planning. All of these skills are crucial for independent living and success across many environments.