Occupational Therapy
Our online occupational therapy services provide access to pediatric services across the states of Utah and California.
Telehealth Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy can help children improve their fine motor development, visual motor skills, sensory motor skills, play, and independence. Children may need occupational therapy when there are challenges with developmental milestones or when there is a medical problem interfering with sensory and motor development.
Our Services
Fine Motor
Working on fine motor skills can help improve grasp and release of objects. Improving strength and coordination can help with fine motor skills. Children who have poor fine motor skills can have challenges with dressing, drawing, picking up objects, and other small motor movement.
Eye-Hand Coordination
Eye-hand coordination involves using our hands and eyes simultaneously in activities. This complex cognitive ability is especially important for normal child development and academic achievement. Strong eye- hand coordination skills are important for handwriting, tying shoes, dressing, eating, sports, video games, grasping objects, and almost all day-to-day activities.
Eye-Hand Coordination
Eye-hand coordination involves using our hands and eyes simultaneously in activities. This complex cognitive ability is especially important for normal child development and academic achievement. Strong eye- hand coordination skills are important for handwriting, tying shoes, dressing, eating, sports, video games, grasping objects, and almost all day-to-day activities.
Sensory Processing and Self- Regulation
Children learn to integrate visual, auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive sensory information by exposure and repetition in a supportive and fun environment. Self regulation is a person’s ability to adjust, control, and modulate their emotions, behaviors, focus, energy, and attention. Having strong self-regulation skills are important for school success, social interactions, and life skills. Sensory integration therapy focuses on helping children experience their environments in a more “organized” way.
A child with sensory processing and/ or self-regulation difficulties might also have challenges with:
Heightened or diminished reactions to sound, light, touch, movement, etc.
Poor sleep patterns, such as difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
Poor motor skills (such as having poor balance and/ or coordination)
Accepting changes in routines or plans
Becoming easily distracted or have poor attention to tasks
Rapid fluctuations in in emotions and behavior
Love or avoid extreme movements (such as spinning, jumping, crashing, running, etc.)
Social skills
Have difficulty engaging with peers, friends, and adults
Become distressed by hygiene habits (showers, hair washing/ brushing, dressing, etc.)
Display risky or overly cautious behaviors in play
Heightened or diminished reactions to sound, light, touch, movement, etc.
Poor sleep patterns, such as difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
Poor motor skills (such as having poor balance and/ or coordination)
Accepting changes in routines or plans
Becoming easily distracted or have poor attention to tasks
Rapid fluctuations in in emotions and behavior
Love or avoid extreme movements (such as spinning, jumping, crashing, running, etc.)
Social skills
Have difficulty engaging with peers, friends, and adults
Become distressed by hygiene habits (showers, hair washing/ brushing, dressing, etc.)
Display risky or overly cautious behaviors in play
Dysgraphia and Handwriting
Having good handwriting is still important across the lifespan and having poor handwriting can negatively impact performance in school. Even in our digital world, handwriting is still important for fine motor development, memory, processing, and cognitive development.
Dysgraphia and Handwriting
Having good handwriting is still important across the lifespan and having poor handwriting can negatively impact performance in school. Even in our digital world, handwriting is still important for fine motor development, memory, processing, and cognitive development.
Self-Care
Self-care skills are one of the first ways young children learn to plan, sequence, organize, and refine skills related to daily living activities. Self-care activities, such as eating, dressing, toileting, and using fasteners (zippers, buttons, ties, etc.) are just some of the important skills for independence, social skills, and academic success.
Play and Social Skills
Play is a child’s “job” and is vital to all children. Unstructured and self-directed play is especially important during early childhood to discover the world, learn to negotiate personal space, solve problems, learn routines, and develop social skills. When a child has difficulty with play and social skills, you may notice that your child:
Has difficulty attending to task
Moves from one activity to another
Has challenges with turn taking, sharing, and engaging with peers
Has difficulty relating to peers, making friends, maintaining friendships
Interrupts frequently
Gets upset when he or she “loses” a game
Always requires an adult to play with them
Has repetitive and/ or narrow interests in play routines and toys
Has trouble expressing and regulating emotions
Has difficulty attending to task
Moves from one activity to another
Has challenges with turn taking, sharing, and engaging with peers
Has difficulty relating to peers, making friends, maintaining friendships
Interrupts frequently
Gets upset when he or she “loses” a game
Always requires an adult to play with them
Has repetitive and/ or narrow interests in play routines and toys
Has trouble expressing and regulating emotions
Play and Social Skills
Play is a child’s “job” and is vital to all children. Unstructured and self-directed play is especially important during early childhood to discover the world, learn to negotiate personal space, solve problems, learn routines, and develop social skills. When a child has difficulty with play and social skills, you may notice that your child:
Has difficulty attending to task
Moves from one activity to another
Has challenges with turn taking, sharing, and engaging with peers
Has difficulty relating to peers, making friends, maintaining friendships
Interrupts frequently
Gets upset when he or she “loses” a game
Always requires an adult to play with them
Has repetitive and/ or narrow interests in play routines and toys
Has trouble expressing and regulating emotions
Visual Perception
Strong visual perception skills are important for playing, dressing, cutting, drawing, completing puzzles, completing math problems, and performing novel and routine daily activities. Some building blocks for visual perception include:
Visual Attention- attending to information while filtering out background information.
Visual Memory- recalling visual traits of pictures and objects.
Visual Discriminiation- being able to determine similarities and differences in objects based on size, shape, color, etc.
Visual Spatial Relationships- understanding where objects go in an environment.
Visual Figure Ground- being able to locate an object in a busy background or larger space.
Visual Sequencing- being able to recall a sequence of objects in the correct order and time.
Visual Form Constancy- knowing that the form or shape stays the same even if an object is larger, smaller, or turned in another direction.
Visual Closure- being able to recognize a form or object even when part of the picture is missing.
Executive Functioning
Executive functioning is the ability to plan, organize, and execute goal-directed activities. Some children require explicit intervention to learn age appropriate executive functioning skills and learn strategies to improve their success in meeting their personal and academic goals. Executive functioning skills include:
Initiating a task or activity
Inhibiting impulses and behaviors
Shifting between ideas, activities, or situations
Planning events, setting goals, and developing appropriate steps to complete an activity
Organizing tasks in a systematic and efficient manner
Working memory to hold information in the mind while completing steps and tasks
Self-monitoring one’s own actions during and after completing activities
Maintaining emotional control across situations and challenges
Initiating a task or activity
Inhibiting impulses and behaviors
Shifting between ideas, activities, or situations
Planning events, setting goals, and developing appropriate steps to complete an activity
Organizing tasks in a systematic and efficient manner
Working memory to hold information in the mind while completing steps and tasks
Self-monitoring one’s own actions during and after completing activities
Maintaining emotional control across situations and challenges
Executive Functioning
Executive functioning is the ability to plan, organize, and execute goal-directed activities. Some children require explicit intervention to learn age appropriate executive functioning skills and learn strategies to improve their success in meeting their personal and academic goals. Executive functioning skills include:
Initiating a task or activity
Inhibiting impulses and behaviors
Shifting between ideas, activities, or situations
Planning events, setting goals, and developing appropriate steps to complete an activity
Organizing tasks in a systematic and efficient manner
Working memory to hold information in the mind while completing steps and tasks
Self-monitoring one’s own actions during and after completing activities
Maintaining emotional control across situations and challenges
Attention
Attention allows children to screen out irrelevant stimuli (noise, lights, distractions, etc.) and engage in an activity long enough to complete a skill, school assignment, or play routine. A child’s ability to attend to activities and sustain appropriate attention to tasks is important across academic achievement, play routines, and social interactions. Children need sustained attention to learn new skills, expand play skills, have successful social interactions, and be productive and safe across environments. If attention challenges are left untreated, a child may also exhibit:
Anxiety in a variety of settings
Changes in behavior and self-regulation
Difficulty making and keeping friendships
Achievement personal goals
Following instructions
Working with peers
Anxiety in a variety of settings
Changes in behavior and self-regulation
Difficulty making and keeping friendships
Achievement personal goals
Following instructions
Working with peers
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