Children’s Occupational Therapy Services
Occupational therapy is a profession that supports children and adults to carry out their daily activities. This can include skills like bathing, dressing and moving in their environment as well as participating in school, work or leisure activities. An Occupational Therapist (OT) can assess and provide therapy to help children respond appropriately to sensory information (visual, auditory, and tactile, or what they see, hear and feel), improve fine motor skills (like holding a pencil), or cognitive or emotional issues (social and self-regulation and participation with their peers). The OT might also evaluate whether a child would benefit from using special equipment or having an assistive device for educational purposes. This could be anything from a simple pencil grip to computer software.
Occupational therapy can help kids with learning and attention issues, improve their strength, and coordination as well as planning and organizational skills. Our therapy team is experienced working with children with a wide variety of challenges including those with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy.
虽然每个孩子的发育速度都不一样，但如果您有任何疑虑，请咨询您的医疗保健从业人员，或联系我们的办公室了解更多信息。
我们的服务
An Occupational Therapist (OT) is a regulated healthcare professional. Our therapy team includes OTs who are experienced doing assessments using standardized tests, observation, and feedback from parents and teachers so that they are able to gain a full understanding of a child's difficulties. They develop an appropriate treatment plan to help the child reach their milestones and goals. All of our therapists receive ongoing training specific to working with children, to ensure we are meeting the unique needs of our clients and their families.
运动技能
Motor skills are actions that involve the movement of muscles in the body. This includes gross motor skills, which are larger movements using arms, legs, feet, or the entire body; and Fine Motor Skills
which are smaller actions, such as using the thumb and finger to pick up an object.
如果您的孩子在以下方面存在困难，他们可能需要接受职业治疗师的精细动作技能训练：姿势（坐着时弯腰驼背）和动作；不愿参与需要学习新技能的新游戏或活动；处理小物件、使用剪刀或握笔困难；书写不清晰（用铅笔写字时用力过猛或过轻）；完成适合年龄的自我护理任务，例如穿衣、系鞋带、扣纽扣、使用勺子和叉子。请参阅学龄儿童精细动作技能发展里程碑的完整列表。
Visual Motor Skills
Visual Motor Skill, also called Visual Motor Integration, is the ability to control hand-eye or hand-body movement. A child having difficulty with their visual motor skills has a hard time controlling body movements in response to what he or she is seeing. Vision is not the problem.
Visual motor skills are part of most daily functions, including cutting, colouring, writing, brushing teeth or catching a ball. When the connection between visual skills (what is being seen), visual perceptual skills (making sense of what is being seen) and motor skills (using muscles to control body parts to carry out an action) are not working together, these everyday activities can become a challenge.
Learn more about Visual Motor Skills for a list of challenges a child may experience if they are having difficulty with visual motor skills and/or visual perception.
Sensory Processing and Self-Regulation
Sensory Processing is the ability to take in sensory information - sight, sound, taste, texture, touch - and use that information to function. Kids with sensory processing issues may have difficulty with over-responding or under-responding to things such as bright lights or loud sounds, changes in their routine, the taste or texture of foods, or the feeling of the tag on their shirt or thread on their sock. This can affect a child’s ability to function, and can create social, learning or academic challenges, and motor development problems.
An Occupational Therapist can work with your child to develop a therapy plan to meet their individual needs with a balance of arousal, calming and organizing activities. Our therapists are trained and experienced at assessing and providing the tools to empower your child and to support parents and teachers.
Handwriting
Difficulty with handwriting could be due to a variety of reasons, including developmental issues, challenges with fine motor skills, visual motor skills, cognition (memory), or sensory processing. Our Occupational Therapists are able to complete formal and informal assessments to determine the potential cause of the problem and suggest solutions specific to the needs of your child.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
自闭症是一种终身性的神经发育障碍，会导致沟通困难、社交和行为问题以及重复性行为。自闭症的症状通常在幼儿时期出现，一般在出生后的前三年内。在创意治疗协会，我们相信与家长携手合作，我们的多学科团队，包括言语治疗师和职业治疗师，可以提供支持和建议。了解更多关于我们自闭症服务的信息。
