How We Help

Cognitive

Following Directions

Transitioning

Attention

Patience

Sequencing

Task Completion

Constructional Praxis

Safety

Organization

Following Directions

🌳Following Directions🌳

Does your child not seem to "listen" to you and follow simple or complex directions? Being able for follow both verbal and written directions is an important life skill! We help this skill in many direct ways depending on the underlying skill deficit of what's keeping them from following directions. Speech & Language Therapy can assess if the have the language skills, cognitive skills, or hearing concerns to understand your directions. Occupational Therapy can assess if they have the attention skills or if something else is over-riding their ability to pay attention (ex. sensory distractions). Behavioral Therapy can help shape their behaviors for consistent ability to follow directions!

Transitioning

🌳Transitioning to Difference Environments🌳

Does dropping your child off at daycare, school, or the babysitter cause tearful tantrums and upset? It doesn't have to be that way! We can help your child have happy happy and tear free transitions. Mental Health Therapy can help build the emotional coping skills so your child can successfully transition to where they need to be. Occupational Therapy can help with the self-regulation for and identify underlying challenges for transitions. Behavioral Therapy can help shape their behaviors for consistent ability to participate in many different environments!

Attention

🌳Attention🌳

Is your child easily distracted? Therapy can help! Occupational Therapy Providers will look at the underlying reasons why a child has difficulty with attention. Is it sensory, executive functioning, another skills they're avoiding or something else? Speech Therapy looks that the cognitive and receptive language skills required for attention and helps this aspect. Behavioral Therapy is a great opportunity to reinforce attention based skills for consistent behavior! Behavior therapy will give the consistent repetition and duration needed for your child to improve attention.

Patience

🌳Patience🌳

Does your child have trouble waiting and being patient? Therapy can help! Occupational Therapy Providers will look at some of the underlying reasons why a child may have trouble waiting. It is some physical, behavioral, sensory or cognitive? Behavioral Therapy can help reinforce behaviors to wait for their turn or something to happen! Behavior therapy can give the consistent repetition and duration needed for your child to improve their patience.

Sequencing

🌳Sequencing🌳

Does your child have difficulty putting tasks or steps in order? Do they get frustrated and abandon tasks? Occupational Therapy can help with this. OT breaks down the steps and addresses the emotions regulation to organize yourself. This set the child up for success no matter how big the task!

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Task Completion

Constructional Praxis

Safety

Organization

Social Skills

Interacting with Adults

Personal Space

Problem Solving

Turn Taking

Social Skills

🌳Social Skills🌳

Does your child have challenges with building relationships, resolving conflict with others, and generally making friend? We look at what the underlying challenges of why a children has difficulty with social skills and will find the best fit for them. Occupational Therapy Providers will look at the functional daily tasks a child needs to complete. Speech Therapy looks that the actual communication skills of expressive language and pragmatic skills. Behavioral Therapy helps these life skills as well! Behavior therapy will give the consistent repetition and duration needed for your child to improve their social skills.

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

Landon and Xander work together during their occupational therapy session focusing on social skills such as turn-taking, sharing, and conflict resolution.

Did you know that there are a variety of strategies that occupational therapy practitioners employ to support a child to establish better social skills, including:

• Relating to the child's interests

• Assessing the child's environment

• Simplyfying tasks

• Role play

• Modeling

It is important for children to develop the skills they need to play and relate appropriately with their peers, as these interpersonal skills help children learn how to deal with conflict or challenging incidents, better understand their emotions and social roles, learn how to solve problems, and adjust to change.

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Interacting with Adults

🌳Interacting with Adults🌳

Does your child have difficulty interacting with other adults? Are they shy meeting new teachers or others they need to interact with. Occupational Therapy can help with this as well as Behavior Therapy!

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Personal Space

🌳Personal Space🌳

Does your child have difficulty invading other's personal spaces? Occupational Therapy can help with this. OT has many ways to teach personal space and help build health relationships with others!

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

Nicholas doesn't typically like other children or people in his personal space. We have been working on playing games with others. Today, Nicholas independently engaged in play with a peer during his session! They would play tag and run through the clinic! With this, Nicholas is increasing his social skills and tolerating others wanting to play with him. Awesome job on this success, Nicholas!

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Problem Solving

🌳Problem Solving🌳

Is your child able to work with others to solve problems? Occupational Therapy can help!

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

One of Caidence goals are to follow peers instructions as well as being able to navigate her body in space without getting distracted. They are doing a scaverger hunt and they needed to find objects what started with the alphabet letters. Caidence showed the ability to be able to take turns with no verbal gudiance needed as well as the ability to work with her peer to find objects together. She initiated turn taking of writting on the scavenger hunt paper. Caidence showed that she can wait for her turn, pay attneiton to tasks, follow simple verbal instructions as well as work with a peer withotu talkingn about random subjects. This is a great accoplishment for her. Very proud of you today

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Turn Taking

🌳Problem Solving🌳

Is your child able to take turns? Occupational Therapy can help!

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

Before beginning his time at TheraTree, Winston would avoid playing near another child or adult and preferred to play alone. If another child or adult would attempt to play then, Winston would simply grab his toys and walk to another area to be alone. Winston has been working for several weeks on parallel play with an adult and has improved with every session. Winston played a pig game, with prompting, for 15 minutes with another child today!!! 🙌🏼 This is such a huge milestone for you, bud!! We are so proud!! 💗

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Self Care

Picky Eaters & Problem Feeders

Brushing Teeth

Potty Training

Hand Washing

Device Management

Sleep

Hair Cuts

Picky Eaters & Problem Feeders

🌳Picky Eaters & Problem Feeders🌳

Is your child a picky eater or problem feeder? We understand the mealtime stressors, worry over nutrition, grocery store meltdowns, and desperation for your child to just eat. We are dedicated to help find the underlying reason why your child is having these challenges to get addressed by the right specialists. Occupational Therapy Providers are the right fit for children with sensory challenges who hate certain textures in their mouth, avoid things on their skin like messy/sticky and just the look at certain foods cause a melt down. OTs also help when there is an adaptation needed because of a motor skill or deformity so a child can help physically feed themselves such as a spoon with a built up handle, plate that sticks to the table or other so many other adaptive feeding equipment. Speech Language Pathologists are the best fit when a child has difficulty swallowing (choking, coughing, gaging) or poor oral motor skills and mouth strength that make chewing and moving food around in their mouth difficult. Behavioral Therapy helps to break down those barriers when your child gets stuck on certain foods, has tantrums at mealtime, or has developed undesirable behaviors around mealtime (throwing, avoidance etc) without a physical cause that OT & ST can address. Mental Health Therapy addresses the emotional aspect of feeding that often develops when a physical problem has occurred. Children who have has pain of acid reflux, a choking experience, body dysmorphia and more have have developed fears around eating. Often children with complex feeding challenges may need a team of difference therapists to address all aspects of their feeding.

Brushing Teeth

🌳Brushing Teeth🌳

Do you hate bedtime because your child hates brushing their teeth? Do you dread the annual dentist appointment because how difficult teeth brush was? Brushing teeth doesn't have to be a fight! Occupational Therapy Providers are experts in self care skills. OTs help find out the underlying reason why teeth brushing is a struggle (Doesn't like feeling in mouth, toothpaste too "spicy", poor awareness of all areas needed to be cleaned etc and addresses them systemically. Behavioral Therapy helps these life skills as well! Behavior therapy will give the consistent repetition and duration needed for your child to learn skills like brushing teeth! We work together as a team so if OT determines there is a challenge with ____ Behavior therapy can learn from OT to support the need.

✨Staff Success✨

A client and I have been working over the last month with tooth brushing. Before we worked on this area, he was having difficulty with the feeling of the brush touching his back teeth and often had gagging. We are working toward a bigger goal of being able to get our teeth cleaned at the dentist! Today, we were able to brush our teeth fully with no gagging or aversions to the feeling of his manual brush. I am so proud of this client and all his hard work! ✅ Does your child need help with brushing their teeth? Get help now:

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Potty Training

🌳Potty Training🌳

Potty training is a huge life skill. Not only does it increase the quality of life for you child - It increased quality of life for the whole family! Occupational Therapy Providers are experts in life skills. OTs break down the underlying reason why your child is having difficulty with potty training. Can they notice the sensation of when they go? Do they have the physical control to make it to he potty? Do they have the structures in place to set them up for success? There are many foundation skills they help with toilet training - OT has a great potential for help! Behavioral Therapy also help with potty training! Behavior therapy sets up a reinforcement stroke so they have lots of opportunities to practice and get positively reinforced when they succeed. The more a child succeeds in this area the more they're willing to do it!

Hand Washing

🌳Hand Washing🌳

Sometimes hand washing is difficult to learn when poor body scheme is a factor. Occupational Therapy Providers are experts in life skills. OTs break down the underlying reason why your child is having difficulty with hand washing and build this up to a independent life skill!

Device Management

🌳Device Management🌳

Device management is making the low or high tech tools we wear on our body. It can look like a lot of different things! From correctly putting on/off hearing aids to wearing a watch! Occupational Therapy Providers help with learning how to put on and take off these tools so that we can use them in daily life!

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

Nick is a very goal orientated young man. He set a goal and he works on it until he achieves that goal. He got a watch in December and he wanted to work on putting the watch on by himself. We have been working on it for the last few weeks. He achieved this goal on the last visit. It did involved getting another watch strap but he still needed to work on looping the straps. Nick was very proud of himself. I am so thankful to work with this young man. He is an encouragement for everybody and his success fuel me to continue to be a therapist. Thanks Nick and a great job.

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Sleep

🌳Sleep🌳

Does you child have difficulty sleeping? Occupational Therapy Providers can help!

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

Lakeyn is a very energetic young girl. When we started to play together she needed her mom and she experienced difficultly with transitions. Today she met her milestones to be able to play independently, sleep better as well as eating better. She met her goals and she started to come biweekly for therapy. Mom reported that she is happier as well as more into playing with peers. Lakeyn made great progress in just a few months of therapy

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Hair Cuts

🌳Hair Cuts🌳

Does you child have melt downs when it's time to cut their hair? Occupational Therapy Providers can help! OT's look at the sensory or process reasons why a child is having difficulty with their hair being cut. Then develop skills and strategies for better tolerating this typical process in life.

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

Andy got his 3rd haircut! The last two cuts have been very scary and upsetting. This time he initiated the hair cut himself and even said, "Hey, this isn't that bad." Way to go Andy!! You rock dude!
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Dressing

Clothing

Buttoning

Shoe Tying

Clothing

Buttoning

🌳Buttoning 🌳

⭐️ Milestone Moment ⭐️ Nick is a great young man. One of his goals were to be able to put on a button shirt for church and when he wants to dress up. He achieved this goal today by using a button hook. He can do the small size buttons of his dressed shirt. He only had to work on this in 3 sessions. Nick is a go getter. He can button and unbutton the shirt by using the button hook. So proud of you. Now you can dress up whenever you want too

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Shoe Tying

🌳Shoe Tying🌳

Does your child know how to tie their shoes? This may be for several reasons. It could be that they don't have the hand dexterity skills to manipulate the string, it could be poor hand strength, or perhaps being able to sequence the steps is too cognitively difficult. Occupational Therapy Providers are experts in looking at the reason why a child is having difficulty and help them learn this skill!

House Hold Chores

Cooking & Meal Prep

Wash Dishes

Cooking & Meal Prep

🌳Cooking & Meal Prep🌳

Has your youth developed the life skills needed to be able to cook and prepare their own meals? Can they prepare a nutritiously balanced meal so that they are ready for independent adulthood? Occupational Therapy Providers are experts in these life skills. OTs break down the underlying reason why your youth is struggle struggling with meal prep. It could be a variety of skills like organization, interception, executive functioning, planning, attention, kitchen safety, time management, motor skills and more. We work on these skills individually and a whole in our fully functional kitchen (just like you have at home!). Behavioral Therapy helps these life skills as well! Behavior therapy can give the consistency and repetition needed to reinforce these skills many times and under a variety of demands. I think we've all be frustrated in the kitchen a time or two... Behavioral Therapy provides a safe working environment so youths can reach their full potential!

Wash Dishes

🌳Wash Dishes🌳

Does you youth know how to clean up after cooking or a meal? Maybe there is something missing in their skills and abilities that's keeping them from washing up. Occupational Therapy Providers are experts in life skills. OTs break down the underlying reason why your child is having difficulty with this area. Perhaps its attention, sequencing, or task completion? Then we work on both the underlying reason why washing dishes is difficult and the actual task so they are more independent in life!

Sensory

Touch & Textures

Sensitive Mouth

Movement & Vestibular

Muscle Control & Proprioception

Praxis

Touch & Textures

🌳Tolerating Touch & Textures🌳

Does your child have a hard time wearing certain texture clothing like jeans, underwear, socks, school uniforms or more? It doesn't have to be a fight! Make your dressing routines so much easier with Sensory Integration Interventions through Occupational Therapy. Through OT, Children who have trouble processing tactile sensory information can re-train their nervous system to tolerate these common textures that we usually have to deal with every day. We understand how stressful it can be when your child just doesn't wand to wear ___ and a meltdown ensues. Our OT providers are trained in sensory interventions that can help!

Sensitive Mouth

🌳Sensitive Mouth🌳

Is your child very sensitive to things in and around their mouth like tooth brushes and certain food textures? This sensitive is part of at the tactile system. With Sensory Integration Interventions through Occupational Therapy children can become less sensitive to things in and around their mouth so that they can accomplish their daily activities like brushing their teeth and bating a balanced meal

Movement & Vestibular

🌳Movement & Vestibular🌳

Does your child get car sick, hate putting their head back to wash hair, avoid movement activities like swings, trampolines, and spinning? They may have difficulty processing vestibular movement. The Vestibular system is located in the inner ear and gives our brain information about how our head or whole body is moving in space. It's what makes us dizzy when we spin around too much or stomach drop when we go down a big hill on a roller coaster. However, with children with Sensory integration difficulties, it may take more subtle movements to give those dramatic effects - like making a turn in the car might induce a nausea sensation. When Sensory Integration Interventions are addressed through Occupational Therapy, it makes these every day movements so much easier and children are free to navigate their environment to learn!

Muscle Control & Proprioception

🌳Proprioception🌳

What is Proprioception? Proprioception is the sensory input through the muscles and joints that tell your brain how hard your muscles are working and gives feedback on resistance from the environment. When children have poor proprioception they are often trying to compensation through crashing and jumping in their environment. This sometimes results in getting bruises or crossing personal boundaries with other people. Sometimes poor proprioception looks like low muscle tone and hyper flexible joints. Occupational Therapy helps children with this type of development.

Praxis

🌳Praxis🌳

What is Praxis? Praxis is the functional ability to motor plan - move your body - in order to accomplish a task. It uses all of your sensory systems to make sense of what is around you and how you need to move your body. Although it's a skill many of us do unconsciously, whenever there is a disruption in our ability to process sensory information, it makes praxis much more difficult. Occupational Therapy helps praxis through developing the underlying sensory integration challenges.

Emotional

Self Regulation

Fear & Anxiety

Sources of Emotion

Emotional Behavioral

Coping Strategies

Self Regulation

🌳Self Regulation🌳

Does your child have difficulty regulating their emotions or level of energy? Do they get upset suddenly or their energy is WAY too high or low for the situation? Occupational Therapy Providers have a unique insight into how sensory integration has an effect on a person's state of arousal (how high or low energy they have). OTs determine your child's distinct sensory profile and create opportunities for their sensory needs to be met so they have the just right energy level for the occasion. This is individualized to your child and a variety of strategies may be used to find the just right fit. Mental Health Therapy can help with self-regulation as well. Mental Health Therapists use a different way to promote self/emotional regulation. This is accomplished through insightful self reflection. They help the child or youth really understand the warning signs for dysregulation and what they can do about it. This cognitive (versus physiological) based approach is an excellent compliment to help children master this skill.

Fear & Anxiety

🌳Fear & Anxiety🌳

Does your child get anxious about changes? Are they extra clingy and upset when it comes time to be dropped of somewhere safe or anticipating new experiences? We have serval ways to get to the bottom of these fears. It first starts with identifying the underlying reasons for the fear, then we decide the appropriate or complimentary therapy. Occupational Therapy helps with fears that are sensory based or prevent the everyday task a child needs to do (try new foods, transition to new places etc). Mental Health Therapy uses a more cognitive approach for the child to self reflect on the fear, process it, and create ways to cope with the fear. Behavior Therapy also helps in more severe and complex cases. ABA uses their ability to have more time with patients to give frequent opportunities for growth and reward success.

Sources of Emotion

Emotional Behavioral

Emotional–Behavioral Needs

Occupational therapy practitioners have training in mental health and are well-suited to address children’s emotional and behavioral needs as they relate to everyday activities and social interaction. For example, occupational therapy practitioners help children develop the ability to cope with challenges, calm down when frustrated, defuse anger, and manage impulses in order to succeed at individual tasks and collaborative interactions at home, at school, and in the community.As children grow older, skills for success in independent living become essential. Occupational therapy practitioners address self-determination and self-advocacy skills, along with transition from school into adult roles.

Coping Strategies

Communication

Expressive Communication

🌳Expressive Communication🌳

Does your child get frustrated that they can't request their wants and need? Does this lead to a meltdowns because others around them don't understand? Speech Therapy helps with expressive communication. They identify what is keeping a child from being able to express themselves. This reason could be a oral motor reason (moving their mouth in the right way), it could be praxis (motor planing to move their mouth in the right sequence), or many other reason that's keeping them from communicating. Behavior Therapy also helps by giving more opportunities to make requests and respond to fruition in a behaviorally appropriate way. They reward the successful actions so as a child's language is emerging they are encouraged to continue to make the verbal request vs a melt down out of frustration.

Motor Skills

Fine Motor skills

Finger Isolation

Arm Coordination

Body Movement

Balance

Crawling

Walking

Fine Motor skills

🌳Fine Motor Skills🌳

Does your child have difficulty using their hands? This might look like holding on to and manipulating small items, poor handwriting, cutting/folding paper etc. This usually translates over into their self care skills like butting, zipping, and shoe tying. Occupational Therapy helps with training the small muscles of the hand to become more precise in movement and stronger so your child can engaging in the world without physical limitations. Physical Therapy can also help develop these fine motor skills. Often when a child has a fine motor skill challenge they also have a gross motor challenge too. So OT & PT are the dynamic duo to take team both of these areas of optimal function!

Finger Isolation

🌳Finger Isolation🌳

Does your child have difficulty moving just one finger at a time? This might be more noticeable as it translates over into their daily life skills like buttoning, picking up small objects, pointing. Occupational Therapy helps with training the small muscles of the hand to become more precise in movement and stronger so your child can engaging in the world without physical limitations.

Arm Coordination

🌳Upper Extremity Coordination🌳

Does your child have difficulty coordination their arm movements? Do they some time move too broadly or drop items? Occupational Therapy helps with coordinating arm movement!

Body Movement

🌳Navigating Body Movement🌳

Does your child have fear or is simply clumsy moving around? Do they frequently bump into things or flat out avoid certain situations that require certain movements? There are a few reasons why a child might do this. Occupational Therapy can help with the sensory integration foundation needed for this skill. Children must have good proprioception (awareness of muscle movement and force) and vestibular (perception of their body moving in space) in order to navigate their environment. OT works on these underlying sensory skills for successful movement. Physical Therapy can also help develop the gross motor skills to do this. Sometimes a child's lack of ability causes fear because they see they may get hurt doing something. When a child gains control over their movement, they gain the confidence to move smoothly in their environment too!

Balance

🌳Balance🌳

Does your child bump into things, lose their balance, prefer activities where they sit down instead of move? They may have difficulty with balance. Occupational Therapy considers the sensory integrative approach to balance ensuring the vestibular system is fully processed by the brain. Often if a child has balance challenges, this is also showing up in fine motor skills and functional limitations. OT looks at the full picture to address these aspects as well. Physical Therapy addresses balance through muscle training, gait training, and more! Both services can be complimentary to balance and work together to best help your child.

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

This is an impressive young man! One of his goals is to ride a bike. He needs to be able to maintain his balance. Here he can maintain his balance when the swing is moving or being stopped without any warning. He is also able to adjust his posture with movements so that he would not lose his balance. Nick has made great gains since we started to work together! So proud of you!
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Crawling

🌳Crawling🌳

Movement is so important for children to learn a grow. Both Physical and Occupational Therapy can help with milestones that build up to learning to walk!
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Walking

🌳Walking🌳

Strength

Upper Body Strength

Core Strength

Hand Strength

Strength

🌳Strength🌳

Does your child prefer non-movement activities and tire easily? Occupational Therapy can help with strength and building up these foundational skills. Physical Therapy can also help with strength and endurance!

Upper Body Strength

🌳Upper Body Strength🌳

Does your child fatigue easily? Do they complain of being tired and frequently slouch and lean? This can be a sign of poor upper body strength. Occupational Therapy can help with strength and the function task that their poor strength in impacting (dressing, play, desk work). Physical Therapy are the experts in building up strength. They create exercises and physical challenges so that your child builds muscle tone. Often OT and PT are the dynamic duo to address upper body strength in different and complimentary ways!

Core Strength

🌳Core Strength🌳

Does your child slouch or prefer to be in only one position? This can be a sign of poor core strength. Occupational Therapy can help with strength and the function task that their poor strength in impacting (dressing, play, desk work). Physical Therapy are the experts in building up strength. They create exercises and physical challenges so that your child builds muscle tone. Often OT and PT are the dynamic duo to address upper body strength in different and complimentary ways!

Hand Strength

🌳Hand Strength🌳

Do you know how important hand strength is to children? They need it for dressing, manipulating clothing fasteners, hand writing, holding their lunch tray and so much more! Poor hand strength is often hard to spot by the untrained person. Sometimes it shows up as bad handing writing, complaining their "bored" with a task, their hands hurts, or they avoid activities that require hand strength. Occupational Therapy can help with hand strength and the functional task that their poor strength is impacting (dressing, play, desk work).

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

So proud of this young girl! She had been working so hard in therapy on her strength, following instructions as well as tolerating of different textures. She met a milestone by being able to follow verbal instructions to do the decorating activity. She also put the icing on her self using her improved hand strength without getting tired! Great job! Very proud of you Caidence!
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Educational

Educational Needs

Pre-Writing

Matching

Numbers

Math

Handwriting

Educational Needs

Educational needs are address through school based services. TheraTree contract with select local schools to provide students in preschool, and elementary, middle, and high school to support successful learning, appropriate behavior, and participation in daily school routines and activities. School based services are provided under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, or the Americans with Disabilities Act for students with disabilities, or as part of a multi-tiered problem-solving process for general education students (e.g., Response to Intervention, early intervening services).Practitioners also collaborate with teachers, parents, and education personnel on ways to support student learning throughout the school environment.

While insurance does not traditionally cover educationally based services, there are some skill set overlaps. Therapy can address the foundation performance skills that make things at school difficult for children.

Pre-Writing

🌳Prewriting🌳

Do you know all the skills needed before a child can learn handwriting? There's a lot! Occupational Therapy helps with many of these performance skills. First a child must have good body stability and posture. Red flags include slouching, fatigue to sit up, and complaints that may sound indirect at first because they're tired (I'm bored, this is dumb, I don't want to do this). Then a child must have good shoulder and arm control - or else their fine motor skills won't make a difference here! A child must be able to visually track shape/color/size on the paper in front of them - then from another source like a book or board - in order to replicate letters, spacing, and sizing. Finally their fine motor skills, hand dexterity, and hand strength come into play. Writing develops in phases of shapes first: vertical lines, circles, horizontal lines, intersecting lines etc. These is a developmentally appropriate order to learning theses shapes! OT assess and look for all of these skills. It's notable that many times insurance will not pay for educationally based goals (like handwriting) however we absolutely work on the underlying skills that are need for it in the outpatient setting. Behavior Therapy is a fantastic opportunity to support these skills. Behavior Therapy has the gift of time to practice and refine these skills over and over until your child can master it. They are also the experts at dealing with the behaviors that get in the way of handwriting (I'm bored, this is dumb, I don't want to do this). OT & ABA is a great dynamic duo for developing pre-writing skills!

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

Elijah came to TheraTree struggling to take his time with any task, even if it was a fun coloring activity. In the past, Elijah would scribble back and forth on his paper coloring the entire page one color to get it finished as quickly as possible in order to go the gym or "do something fun". We have been slowly working every session to enhance his willingness to take his time on his work. Today not only did Elijah color in the lines of his coloring page, but he also had to color each section according to the number chart, which he did flawlessly!!! I am so proud of you, Elijah for accomplishing this ENORMOUS goal!! You are a SUPERSTAR 💫 I cannot wait to see what goal you will crush next! 😁
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Matching

🌳Matching🌳

Does your child have the ability to match things? There could be several reasons why this is difficult. Occupational Therapy helps with the visual motor skills needed for matching. Behavior Therapy helps with the learning process of matching and the behaviors that can come out when a task is frustrating. Speech Therapy helps with the language barrier of what it means to match objects up and follow directions. Let us help get to the bottom of why these skills are difficult so we can find the right therapy for you!

Numbers

Math

Handwriting

Safety & Injury

Safety

Pain

Injury

Safety

🌳Safety🌳

Does your child elope and run away? Do you have to keep an extra close eye on them because they find their way into unsafe situations? Occupational Therapy helps with this skill of safety!
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Pain

🌳Pain🌳

Sometimes children experience pain from an injury or how their body develops. Pain can get in the way of a lot in life including delay develop more than the original injury. Therapy often helps reduce physical pain and help children cope with pain along the way so that pain is no longer impacting their function! Depending on the situation Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, or both may be the best fit to help resolve pain.

Injury

Injury-Related Needs

When a child experiences a serious illness or injury, medically based or rehabilitative occupational therapy services may be provided. These services are developmentally appropriate and may emphasize physical skills to increase movement, strength, and/or coordination; and adaptive skills, cognitive abilities, sensorimotor skills, visual motor and perceptual skills, and social and interpersonal skills to improve the child’s functional abilities and independence. Outpatient services may be provided to continue rehabilitation progress.

⭐️Milestone Moment⭐️

Bree is a great young woman who had an injury to her right upper extremity. We have been working on her strength for the last few months. She experienced difficulty with using her right arm to support her left arm. This is important to do her daily activities like dressing, brushing her hair. Here we have been working on her holding her body onto the swing using both her arms. She was able to hold this position for longer than 10 counts Observed improved flexion from her shoulder girdle as well as her wrist. She made great progress. Bree said that she never thought that she could do this activity using her right arm to support her left arm. So proud of her!
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Active participation of caregivers and families in their children’s lives is crucial to helping them achieve their greatest potential. If they are concerned about their child’s development, caregivers can consult their educational service district to request an occupational therapy evaluation.

Child Development

Developmental Needs

The primary occupations of young children are play and interacting with caregivers. Occupational therapists evaluate children’s development and provide intervention to improve skills and/or modify environments when concerns arise about a child’s functional performance. Some examples are:facilitating movement to help a child sit independently or crawl; helping a child learn to follow 2- or 3-step instructions; helping a child develop the ability to dress independently; helping a child learn to cope with disappointment or failure; reducing extraneous environmental noise for a child who is easily distracted; building skills for sharing, taking turns, and playing with peers; and helping a child develop the ability to use toys and materials in both traditional and creative manners.

How We Help

Cognitive

🌳Following Directions🌳

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🌳Transitioning to Difference Environments🌳

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🌳Attention🌳

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🌳Patience🌳

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🌳Sequencing🌳

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Social Skills

🌳Social Skills🌳

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🌳Interacting with Adults🌳

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🌳Personal Space🌳

🌳Problem Solving🌳

🌳Problem Solving🌳

Self Care

🌳Picky Eaters & Problem Feeders🌳

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🌳Brushing Teeth🌳

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✨Staff Success✨

🌳Potty Training🌳

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🌳Hand Washing🌳

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🌳Device Management🌳

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🌳Sleep🌳

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🌳Hair Cuts🌳

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Dressing

🌳Dressing🌳

🌳Buttoning 🌳

🌳Shoe Tying🌳

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House Hold Chores

🌳Cooking & Meal Prep🌳

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🌳Wash Dishes🌳

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Sensory

🌳Tolerating Touch & Textures🌳

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🌳Sensitive Mouth🌳

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🌳Movement & Vestibular🌳

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🌳Proprioception🌳

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🌳Praxis🌳

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Emotional

🌳Self Regulation🌳

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🌳Fear & Anxiety🌳

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Emotional–Behavioral Needs

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Communication

🌳Expressive Communication🌳

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Motor Skills

🌳Fine Motor Skills🌳

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🌳Finger Isolation🌳