Occupational Therapy
Paediatric Occupational Therapy
What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupations are the familiar and meaningful activities that people do every day. Paediatric occupational therapy (OT) helps children to learn skills and participate in activities for successful, independent daily living. OT at Budding Blossom makes it possible for children with disorder, physical/mental challenges or developmental disabilities to engage in normal daily life to the greatest extent possible.
What Occupational Therapy Offers
For children, OT focuses on developing specific life skills. Through specific exercises and task related activities, occupational therapists help your child learn or regain these critical skills.
When skill and strength cannot be developed or improved, we work with your child and family in developing creative alternatives to achieve goals.
What Are the Benefits of Occupational Therapy?
Our occupational therapists work with speech therapist, physical therapists and other specialists to create a customized program which addresses your child’s unique needs. The therapy process includes an initial evaluation, during which we assess your child’s current level of function. After the evaluation, the occupational therapist will create a treatment plan that may include:
- Posture and Balance
- Gross motor skills
- Fine motor skills
- Oral motor function and feeding skills
- Activities of daily living
- Cognition
- Visual perception
- Sensory integration
- Social and communication
- Instructions for home exercise programs
Additionally, paediatric OT may help your child with the following:
- Sensory management
- Engaging in play activities
- Learning to navigate environment
- Removing barriers to learning to help child become more focused
- Practice appropriate social interactions and communication
- Establishing autonomy and accomplishment in daily routine, such as brushing hair or teeth
Intensive Occupational Therapy for Children at Budding Blossom
At Budding Blossom, we understand that your child is unique with very specific needs. For this reason, we provide individualized therapy sessions for each child. We offer occupational therapy
for children at our clinics. We also offer intensive therapy sessions at our clinics. If you thinkyour child may benefit from paediatric occupational therapy at Budding Blossom, please contact
our team to begin the journey to creating an individualized therapy solution!
Our paediatric occupational therapists intervene children in performing “occupations” with the highest level of independence possible. Childhood occupations include sleeping, food, learning
in school and playing with friends.