Occupational Therapy

A Holistic Approach to Wellness

 
 

Many people are surprised to hear that children participate in occupational therapy because we usually associate the term "occupation" with jobs adults perform. However, there is a broader view of "occupations" that include children's meaningful activities such as playing, learning, and socializing with friends.

Tilton’s Therapy For Tots helps children develop these necessary skills so their transition into adulthood becomes a path to an independent and rewarding life. Our pediatric Occupational Therapists provide evaluation, intervention, and consultation in the following areas:

  • Reframing Behaviors

  • Fine Motor/Handwriting Skills

  • Play & Socialization 

  • Sensory Integration 

  • Organizing and Planning their Motor Skills

  • Oral Motor Functioning 

  • Self-Help & Hygiene

  • Mental Health 

  • Adaptive Equipment Modifications 

  • Environmental Adaptations for Home and School Settings

  • Visual Motor Integration

  • Safety awareness

  • Vocational Skills

 

Motor Function

  • Fine Motor/Dexterity & Handwriting Skills

  • Organizing and Planning Motor Skills

  • Oral Motor Functioning

  • Visual Motor Integration

  • Focus on neuro-muscular ability to complete the meaningful and necessary tasks on a daily basis

 

Self-Care Tasks

  • Activities of Daily Living: dressing, feeding, bathing, grooming/hygiene

  • Instruments of Activities of Daily Living: Home management, money management, shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc.

 

Vocational Skills

  • Job readiness

  • Job specific skills to be able to obtain and maintain meaningful employment 

 

Compensation Skills & Adaptation

  • Adaptive Equipment Modifications

  • Environmental Adaptations for Home and Work Settings

 

Cognition & Mental Health

  • Well-being & stress management

  • Social skills

  • Coping skills

  • Assessment of safety awareness

  • Ability to make quality decisions

  • Sequence of tasks

 

Sensory Integration

  • Assessment of sensory systems & sensory processing

  • Use of sensory interventions to regulate nervous system

 

Tilton’s Therapy For Tots is MOBILE to accommodate children in their natural environments. This allows for incorporation of family members during therapy to allow for the greatest potential of therapeutic progression. The Occupational therapist is actually drawing upon extensive training to provide challenging therapeutic activities aimed at developing greater capabilities and skill levels.

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Tilton’s Therapy is MOBILE to accommodate patients in their natural environments. This allows for the incorporation of family members during therapy to allow for the greatest potential of therapeutic progression.