Services
What is Occupational Therapy (OT)?Occupational Therapy is skilled intervention that helps individuals achieve greater success and independence in all aspects of their daily lives. For children this can mean developing skills that improve a child's ability to play, participate in school related activities (both academically and recreationally), and ability to complete activities of daily living (eating/feeding, dressing, chores, grooming, etc).
Swing for the Stars provides therapy services to children ages birth to 18. Our services include:
- Screenings
- Detailed assessments
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Treatment Intensives
- Sensory processing
- Fine motor development
- Gross motor development as it relates to coordination, balance, motor planning and postural stability
- Oral motor and feeding skills
- Visual perceptual skills
- Handwriting skills
- Activities of daily living
- Play
- Sensory processing disorder (SPD)
- Autism spectrum disorder (autism, PDD, Aspergers Syndrome)
- Learning disabilities
- Non-verbal learning disability
- Attention deficit disorder
- Fine motor, gross motor and coordination disorders
- Down Syndrome
- Fragile X
- Cerebral Palsy
- Developmental Delay
- Mood/Emotional Disorders
- Intake: The intake process involves a phone conversation with a therapist where you are able to share your concerns about your child and what information you are looking for from an evaluation. The therapist will determine if an occupational therapy evaluation necessary. If an evaluation is recommended for your child you will be asked to fill out a developmental and medical history form and return it prior the scheduled evaluation date.
- Evaluation: A detailed evaluation is necessary prior to beginning treatment to identify the child's specific areas of concern which will help in the development of a treatment plan based on the unique needs of the child. The evaluation will also help determine the frequency for therapeutic services.
- Treatment: Depending on the results of the evaluation, the therapist may recommend individual therapy, paired therapy, a treatment intensive, or group therapy. Your child's therapist will work with you to develop an individualized treatment plan based on your child's needs, and will help you create goals for treatment. You will be given home programming suggestions to help carry over treatment strategies and accommodations into the child's natural environment in order to maximize treatment results.
