Occupational Therapy Services
Solutions for high functioning kids and teens!
What if there were a better way to manage a child’s “meltdowns”?
The primary reason so many parents struggle with their child’s unpredictable meltdowns (longer than they should be) is often because they have been told to work on “discipline” with their children, take pills, or accept that it’s “an age thing” and their child will “grow out of it”. Can you relate?
​Sensory challenges can cause tantrums and "meltdowns".
Take our Sensory Quiz to see if your child's meltdowns are sensory based!
Free 10 question Quiz: Does my Child Have Sensory Modulation Challenges?
Occupational therapy at Moving Parts Therapy provides solutions for Sensory Challenges!
Does your child seem unmotivated to learn at school? Are they smart, but not doing well in the classroom?
Can your child run and do gymnastics moves, but has trouble sitting still and focusing in order to be able to do their best at school?
A Sensory-based Motor Disorder may be the cause!
We Provide Solutions for Learning Challenges!
Free 10 question Quiz: Does my Child Have Sensory-based Motor Challenges?
Does your child seem easily frustrated during school or quickly quit sporting or handwriting activities?
Are they smart, but seem to lack confidence?
Can your child learn physical activities, but it seems to take a long time and they forget skills they had previously mastered?
Coordination and motor planning challenges can be the cause.
Free 10 question Quiz: Does my Child Have Coordination or Motor Planning Challenges?
We Provide Solutions for Learning Challenges!
Areas of Expertise
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Postural Core Strength
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Sensory Processing
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Primitive Reflex Integration
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Eye hand coordination
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Bilateral integration
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Fine motor coordination
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Visual Skills
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Certified in toilet training
Challenges addressed
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Sensory processing challenges
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Dyspraxia/Motor Planning
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Handwriting
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Continence
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Focus/Attention
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Sitting Still
Who Do We See?
Kids age 4 1/2 thru 17.
This is How We Do It
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The goal of occupational therapy intervention is to improve a child's success in school, work, home and the community.
Occupational Therapy improves a child’s skills in his “occupation” which may include handwriting, play, eating, and dressing skills as well as other things kids do in their days. We do this through focus on fine motor skills, visual and perceptual skills, core strength, primitive reflex integration, bilateral coordination and sensory-motor integration. We are Certified in toilet training.
In our clinic we work to balance therapeutic play-exercise aimed at the child with education and support for their parents. By developing relationships with not only our children but also with their parents, we are able to make more change. In addition to the improved function of the child, our goal is for parents to leave our clinic with the tools to support to them.
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Parents can expect to be intimately involved in treatment and are present during sessions. All caregivers are encouraged to be a part of treatment. Sessions often include time spent collaborating with families.
Our individual sessions are 35-40 minutes in length. Generally, treatment plans are about 8 months to 36 months in duration, depending on the client's goals and frequency of therapy attendance. Home exercise programs are tailored to each family's needs and ability to complete. This would be discussed upon completion of the evaluation. We provide intensive services 2-3 times per week in order to achieve neurological improvement.
*minimum attendance of twice per week for the first 6 months is required*
The child's first appointment is 70 minute evaluation session in which we establish goals and a treatment plan. Depending on the type of service you are receiving, you and your therapist will develop a treatment plan focused on your areas of concern. During all evaluative sessions the caregivers are present. Evaluative sessions will be a combination of standardized testing, caregiver/client interview, structured observation and observation of caregiver/child interactions.
Primitive Reflex Integration
Primitive reflexes are involuntary motor responses originating in the brainstem present after birth in early child development that facilitate survival. These central nervous system motor responses are eventually inhibited by 6 months of age as the brain matures and replaces them with voluntary motor activities. The problem is that this integration or phasing out of reflexes doesn't happen on it's own for some kids. Instead they retain these reflexes, but it's usually not obvious that they have. The reflexes continue to appear in subtle ways, and cause all sorts of challenges for a child.
Handwriting
Handwriting evaluations are about everything that contributes to forming the letters. Writing requires visual coordination, postural core strength, crossing midline skills, fine motor coordination, hand strength, and more. If your child has sloppy handwriting, has difficulty correctly forming letters or has trouble properly holding a pencil, they may benefit from occupational therapy for handwriting problems
Is child's handwriting:
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Sloppy or illegible?
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Significantly different from their peers’?
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Inconsistent?
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Does your child avoid writing tasks?
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Is it more than just a matter of paying more attention, focusing, and slowing down rather than rushing through an assignment to get it done?
If you think your child is having problems with handwriting:
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Find out if their teacher has similar concerns
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Find out how you can support them at home
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Not helping enough? It's time for an occupational therapy evaluation.
What will the O.T. evaluate?
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Postural core strength
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Bilateral coordination and crossing midline skills
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Visual skills
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Fine motor coordination
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Motor planning skills
Challenges for kids with poor handwriting:
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Anxiety
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Frustration
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Lower grades and test scores
How Occupational Therapy can help:
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Develop a plan specific to your child
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Provide strategies to improve handwriting
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Improve underlying skills that are causing the handwriting problems through specific strength, coordination and visual activities.
Moving Parts Therapy LLC's handwriting therapy:
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Parent attends sessions with child
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Generally, sessions are 2-3 times per week
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Each session is 35-40 minutes long
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Insurance can cover some of the cost. see our Getting Starting page for insurance information.