Occupational Therapy

What is Occupational Therapy?

Pediatric Occupational Therapy is a health and rehabilitation profession that focuses on developing and building child’s ability to perform activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, and feeding. Gaining these skills helps a child to function more independently, as well as enhancing their health, self esteem, and happiness. The Occupational Therapist works closely with the child and his or her parents to develop, enhance, or restore function lost due to injury, disease, developmental delay, sensory integration dysfunction, or congenital abnormality.

What are the benefits?

Improvements in a variety of functional areas including, but not limited to:

• Independence with activities of daily living
• Fine motor skills, motor control, writing skills, bilateral integration, motor planning
• Age-appropriate play and leisure skills
• Oral-motor skills, lip control, tongue control, coordination of oral movements
• Muscle tone
• Head and trunk control
• Posture
• Strength
• Balance and symmetry
• Perceptual processing
• Sensory integration
• Cognitive and behavioral function

Who can participate?

Individuals from infant through age 21 with a physician’s prescription who have been evaluated by a McKenna Farms occupational therapist and determined eligible for Occupational Therapy services. We provide services for a variety of diagnoses including, but not limited to:

• Cerebral Palsy
• Spinal Bifida
• Down syndrome
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Stroke
• Autism
• Developmental Delay
• Sensory Integration Dysfunction
• Scoliosis
• Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Learning and Language disabilities
• Multiple Sclerosis

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