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Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Questions about BDI Occupational Therapy?

BDI Occupational Therapists

Our Occupational Therapists are trained to identify barriers that restrict a child’s success or independence in completing everyday “occupations”

What is a child’s occupation?  

  • Play independently 
  • Be successful in school
  • Easily adapt to change and problem solve
  • Complete self-care tasks
  • Effectively communicate to maintain great relationships with family and friends 
  • Learn beneficial behavioral skills, such as accountability, empathy, concentration, and self-esteem  

Occupational Therapy can help your child improve:

Fine motor skills
Precise hand movements
  • Holding pencil/crayon
  • Manipulating toys/small objects
  • Clothing fasteners
Emotional Regulation
The ability to control one’s own emotional state. This is the ability that allows one to self-calm during emotional and stressful situations. In children, emotional regulation issues are often seen as ‘behavior problems’
Range of Motion
The amount of movement a joint or body part has
  • Limited movement in hands/arms, head, legs, or other body parts
  • Difficulty straightening limbs
Strength

Core Strength

  • Sitting still or sitting without support
  • Climbing/running/jumping
  • Balance
  • Frequent falls

Arm/Hand Strength

  • Turning doorknobs
  • Opening containers
  • Holding a pencil
  • Carrying multiple objects
  • Maintaining hold on objects
Self Care
Activities of daily living
  • Dressing
  • Eating 
  • Bathroom hygiene
  • Chores
  • Planning
  • Decision making
Sensory Processing
Ability to receive and respond to aspects of our environment

Sensitivities to:

  • Sights
  • Sounds
  • Movement
  • Taste
  • Touch 
  • Smell
Visual Perceptual Skills
The ability of the brain to understand what the eye is seeing
  • Reading
  • Puzzles
  • Reversing letters/numbers
  • Visual scanning (example instead that doesn’t use the medical term)
  • Sorting
Visual-Motor Skills

Hand eye coordination

  • Handwriting (letters/numbers)
  • Drawing/coloring
  • Cutting
  • Ball skills

Occupational Therapy can help improve

Fine motor skills

precise hand movements
  • Holding pencil/crayon
  • Manipulating toys/small objects
  • Clothing fasteners

Bilateral Coordination

using both hands or arms together to complete tasks
  • Jumping jacks
  • Throwing/catching a ball
  • Pull/push toys
  • Crafting (cutting, glueing, etc…)

Visual-Motor Skills

Hand eye coordination
  • Handwriting (letters/numbers)
  • Drawing/coloring
  • Cutting
  • Ball skills

Visual Perceptual Skills

the ability of the brain to understand what the eye is seeing
  • Reading
  • Puzzles
  • Reversing letters/numbers
  • Visual scanning (example instead that doesn’t use the medical term)
  • Sorting

Self Care

activities of daily living
  • Dressing
  • Eating 
  • Bathroom hygiene
  • Chores
  • Planning
  • Decision making

Sensory Processing

ability to receive and respond to aspects of our environment

Sensitivities to:

  • Sights
  • Sounds
  • Movement
  • Taste
  • Touch 
  • Smell

Strength

Core Strength

  • Sitting still or sitting without support
  • Climbing/running/jumping
  • Balance
  • Frequent falls

Arm/Hand Strength

  • Turning doorknobs
  • Opening containers
  • Holding a pencil
  • Carrying multiple objects
  • Maintaining hold on objects

Range of Motion

the amount of movement a joint or body part has
  • Limited movement in hands/arms, head, legs, or other body parts
  • Difficulty straightening limbs

Emotional Regulation

the ability to control one’s own emotional state

A-Z of our OT Services

  • A

    Autism

    Attention

    ADLs (activities of daily living)

    B

    Body Awareness

    Bilateral Coordination

    C

    Core Strength

    D

    Dyspraxia

    Dysgraphia

    Dressing skills

    E

    Eye Hand Coordination

    Executive Functioning Skills

    Emotional Regulation

  • F

    Feeding

    Fine Motor Skills

    Fine Motor Coordination

    G

    Gravitational Insecurity

    Grip Strength

    H

    Handwriting

    I

    IADLs (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living)

    M

    Motor Planning

    P

    Postural Control

    Play

  • R

    Reflex Integration

    ROM (Range of Motion)

    Routine Management

    S

    Self Care

    Sensory Processing 

    Safety Awareness

    T

    Toileting

    V

    Visual Motor Skills

    Visual Perceptual Skills

Great Feedback from Great Families

BDI Playhouse has exceptional therapists… my son was evaluated at BDI and received Occupational Therapy – and loved his therapist at BDI! I cannot say enough about the entire staff. Qualified, caring, exceptional people.”

Getting Started With Occupational Therapy

Still not sure? Learn more about whether your child needs therapy here