Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Benefits: Promotes bonding, body awareness, relaxation, and positive sensory experiences while supporting an infant’s developing ability to interact with their environment.

In My Practice: I incorporate gentle, developmentally appropriate massage techniques and caregiver education to support sensory regulation, body awareness, calming routines, and positive caregiver-child interaction.

Benefits: Supports foundational motor patterns by addressing retained primitive reflexes that may interfere with coordination, balance, posture, body awareness, and motor planning.

In My Practice: I incorporate reflex-based movements into therapeutic play and functional activities to support postural control, bilateral coordination, motor planning, and participation.

Benefits: Uses rhythmic, repetitive movements to support body awareness, coordination, balance, motor planning, attention, and regulation.

In My Practice: I incorporate rhythmic movement patterns into therapeutic activities to build foundational motor skills, bilateral coordination, postural control, sensory regulation, and readiness for learning.

Benefits: Creates a safe, predictable, and respectful environment that considers how stress and past experiences can affect regulation, behavior, relationships, and participation.

In My Practice: I prioritize emotional and physical safety, predictable routines, choice, connection, and child-led participation while adapting activities to each child’s needs and responses.

Benefits: Teaches children to recognize emotions and body cues, understand their level of regulation, and develop strategies to manage their responses.

In My Practice: I help children identify emotions and regulation states and practice individualized coping strategies through play, movement, visual supports, transitions, and real-life social situations.

Benefits: Provides a structured, multisensory approach to handwriting readiness, letter formation, pencil control, visual-motor skills, and fine motor coordination.

In My Practice: I use developmentally appropriate activities, manipulatives, and structured instruction to build pre-writing and handwriting skills while addressing grasp, fine motor control, and visual-motor integration.

Benefits: Provides specialized knowledge for supporting autistic children with sensory processing, communication, social participation, emotional regulation, motor development, and daily living skills.

In My Practice: I use an individualized, neurodiversity-affirming approach that considers each child’s communication style, sensory needs, strengths, interests, and developmental profile.