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Home » Children’s Therapies » Children’s Occupational Therapy

Children’s Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy for ChildrenOccupational Therapists work with your child to improve fine motor skills, sensory integration, and activities of daily living.

We cover five main areas of occupational children’s therapy below.

Sensory Processing Difficulties

Sensory Processing difficulties with processing information from five classic senses (vision, auditory, touch, olfaction, and taste), the sense of movement (vestibular system), and/or the positional sense (proprioception).

Cognition and Perception Challenges

Cognition and Perception challenges with visual discrimination (similarities and differences), spatial relations (identifying reversals of objects and symbols), sequential memory (ability to recall objects from choices after they have been removed), visual memory (identifying an object that has been memorized from a previous page), visual form constancy (finding the same shape when it is rotated or a different size), and visual figure-ground (finding an object within a busy background, like I SPY)

Self Care

Self Care such as getting dressed, right-left and front to back discrimination, being able to organize getting dressed or ready for school be strategies and techniques from verbal or visual cues. Feeding issues such as texture aversions, grasp, bilateral coordination or trunk control. Hygiene skills such as bathing, grooming, toileting, brushing teeth and nail care.

Social Skills

Being able to develop coping skills and self-esteem. Learning how to follow directions, pay attention and listen. Engaging in cooperative play and sharing skills. Family, teacher, child-centered therapy to give tools to everyone involved in the child’s activity of daily living.

Motor Skills

Finger strength, hand strength, position, and stability. Handwriting including wrist and/or forearm control, spatial organization (space and letter formation), copying shapes, fluency of finger movement, speed, and dexterity.

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What Does An Occupational Therapist Evaluate?

imageOccupational therapy examines the tasks facing your child on a daily basis and what is affecting the child’s ability to perform these tasks. Such tasks include self-care skills, social interaction with peers, fine motor skills for completion of age-appropriate craft or school skills, strength, and endurance to be able to participate in age-appropriate motor activities.

Through standardized testing and fun, engaging activities your child can be able to achieve his or her maximum potential through adaptation, environmental modification, or practice of newly acquired skills.

Keep in mind as children grow and develop, some difficulties can be expected and are considered a normal part of development.

How to Start

Request a referral from your child’s Primary Care Physician or specialty doctor such as a Developmental Pediatrician, Surgeon, Neurologist or Psychiatrist.

For appointments or questions, give your local office a call. After contacting us, fill out the New Patient Paperwork

In-network provider for most insurances including Medicaid, CHP+, and Tricare.

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Fax: (719) 599-4606
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Main Office: (303) 357-1699 ext. 123
Fax: (303) 357-6146

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