Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy treatment focuses on helping to support individuals’ independence and self-advocacy within all areas of their lives. A child’s primary job is to connect with others, play, learn, and experience the world. Our occupational therapists conduct treatment sessions with sensory integration principles and techniques, and utilize strengths-based and child-led approaches to provide therapy and address overall developmental and functional abilities.
Some areas that occupational therapy can help to support include:
- Self and co-regulation abilities
- Sensory processing
- Progression through developmental capacities
- Individualized strategies to help with transitions
- Interoception
- Activities of daily living
- Joyful play
- Feeding differences
- Gross motor abilities
- Fine motor skills
- Visual skills (visual motor, visual perception, ocular motor)
- Encouraging families to create neurodiverse affirming lifestyles
- Parent coaching and home programming for carryover
Some specialty certifications and trainings of our OT staff include:
- Therapeutic Listening
- Astronaut Training
- Reflex Integration
- Interoception Curriculum
- Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS)
- DIRFloortime
- Nature-based Therapy
- LPT Approach to Autism
- Kinesio Taping for Pediatrics
- Strengths-based treatment for ADHD
Check out the video below about occupational therapy and how we work on areas of need at Milestones.