Helping Children Thrive With Early Intervention Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy for children provides a number of benefits for your child, both in the long and short term. 

• Improves gross motor skills -  Gross motor skills help children crawl, walk, jump, and play. Occupational therapists will work on stability, postural control, and balance to help with these skills. 
• Improves fine motor skills - OT can enhance fine motor skills that depend on the coordination of the muscles in your hands and fingers. These skills can affect academic performance and everyday life tasks. 
• Helps sensory processing difficulties - Does your child have difficulty responding to different sensory inputs – types of clothing material, outdoor environments, new food textures, etc.?  OT can help your child better receive and respond to their sensory input. 
• Increases independence in daily living - Activities of daily living can include feeding, dressing, and grooming. An OT can help your child complete daily living routines with increased independence and ease. 
• Increases strength and stability - By developing strength and stability in OT, your child will be able to complete fine, gross, and visual motor activities and thrive in their environments with increased ease and independence. 
• Enhances social skills - Social and play skills can be improved when an OT works on functional play, taking turns, sharing, expressing emotions, and social cue interpretation. 
• Improves visual motor skills - An occupational therapist can improve your child’s visual motor and perception skills, which will greatly effect handwriting, reading, playing, and more.