Pediatrics
What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy?
Does your child present with any of the following issues?
What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy?
Pediatric OT helps to restore, improve or build new skills that help your child reach independence in areas such as dressing, toileting, and handwriting. Additional motor, cognitive, behavior, balance, and visual skills are required to complete these everyday activities. We break down tasks to identify deficits acting as barriers to independence. There is no task too small or too big for SHARKKS Pediatrics. Not only do we treat your child, we treat the family to ensure the long-term success of treatment.
Identifying need for services
Does your child present with any of the following issues?
What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy?
We identify barriers to independence by establishing a comprehensive profile of the patient consisting of medical history, family routines, and motor performance. Occupational therapists assess children's developmental milestones using standardized tests and clinical observations.
Does your child present with any of the following issues?
Does your child present with any of the following issues?
Does your child present with any of the following issues?
- Difficulty with verbal expression
- Discomfort wearing certain clothing
- Balance difficulties
- Delays in crawling and walking
- Challenging behaviors such as defiance, and not following directions
- Require physical assistance completing basic tasks such as showering, brushing teeth, and dressing
- Low muscle tone
- Difficulty sequencing through activities without telling them to stay on task
- Appears to be going "a million times an hour"
Conditions we treat
First session expectations
Does your child present with any of the following issues?
*Autism
*ADL training
*Behaviors
*Cerebral Palsy
*Cognitive processing
*Developmental delays
*Down Syndrome
*Dressing
*Feeding
*Fine motor deficits
*Handwriting
*Motor planning
*Problem solving skills
*Sensory dysfunction
*Skeletal muscular disorders
*Visual perceptual skills developmental milestones
Interventions we do
First session expectations
First session expectations
- Social groups meetups for teens with special needs
- Community outings at malls, grocery stores, and stores.
- Strengthening for the upper and lower body
- Life skills for teens transitioning into adulthood.
- Sensory diets to help regulate the nervous system into a calm state.
- Handwriting with letter recognition, staying between lines, and a mature grasp of pencil.
- Behavioral modification strategies
First session expectations
First session expectations
First session expectations
- Checking in with the front office who will provide additional forms to fill out
- Meeting with an Occupational Therapist (OT) to establish a comprehensive view of the child's background and concerns.
- The OT will then conduct further assessments to have a full understanding of where the child is developmentally.
- OT and the parent will meet to discuss next steps and if we recommend services for your child.