Therapy

Your child’s Occupational Therapy (OT) program will be designed according to his/her individual needs. Our registered and licensed occupational therapist provides individual therapy either at our Ashburn office, your home, or within your child's private school.

Because parental involvement is essential for your child's success parents and caregivers are encouraged to observe therapy sessions and learn to participate in the process.  Implementation of skills learned during therapy outside of the clinic is essential.  In order to ensure carry over, home programs are provided.

Our services include treatment of the following:

• Fine Motor Skills:
  • Developing a functional pencil grip
  • Manipulation of small manipulatives (ex: beads, blocks, puzzle pieces, etc.)
  • Scissor skill development

    Ex: snipping, cutting on a straight line, cutting out shapes (circle, square, triangle, etc.)

• Visual Motor Skills
  • Drawing recognizable shapes, letters and numbers
• Drawing a person correctly with 6-8 body parts
• Pre-writing strokes
• Handwriting (learning to form letters and numbers correctly)
• Assembling art projects

• Self Help Skills:
  • Buttoning, zipping, snapping
  • Shoe tying
  • Donning (putting on) and doffing (taking off) shirt, shoes, socks and a jacket

• Sensory Processing Skills/Attention to Task
  • Tactile/messy art activities
  • Proprioceptive/Heavy Work input
  • Vestibular input