What is Occupational Therapy & What Does It Mean for My Child?
South Florida Occupational Therapy provides individualized support to help children build the skills they need to participate with greater ease in daily routines at home and at school. We’ll start with an evaluation to understand your child’s strengths, emerging skills, and any areas where support may be helpful throughout their day. From there, I develop goals and activities that are meaningful, functional, and connected to your child’s everyday environments.
Because services take place in your child’s natural settings, therapy supports participation where it matters most. I use a top-down, relationship-centered approach that helps your child develop the motor, play, and regulation skills needed to engage confidently in learning and daily activities.
​
Areas addressed may include:
-
Fine motor skills and hand strength
-
Pencil grasp and handwriting development
-
Visual-motor and visual-perceptual skills
-
Gross motor coordination and motor planning
-
Sensory processing and response to sensory input
-
Postural stability and core strength
-
Attention, task initiation, and sustained focus
-
Planning, sequencing, and other executive functioning skills
-
Emotional regulation and coping strategies
-
Social engagement and cooperative play
-
Development of routines and independence
-
Adaptive equipment, when appropriate​
​
How to know if your child would benefit from OT?
​
WHy OT
Fine Motor Skills
The ability to make small movements using the hands, fingers and wrist to enable tasks such as holding small items and writing
Visual Perceptual Skills
The ability to interpret, organize and make sense of what the eyes see in order to recognize letters, complete puzzles, and match objects
Visual Motor Skills
The ability to coordinate the eyes and hands to complete tasks such as catching a ball or copying a shape
Activities of Daily Living
Everyday tasks such as eating, bathing, dressing, and playing
Sensory Integration
The ability to perceive information from the five senses and respond appropriately
Executive Functioning Skills
Higher level cognitive skills that allow us to plan and initiate a task, sustain attention, remember information and regulate emotions