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Super Cool Kids Services:

Occupational Therapy

Pediatric Occupational Therapists (OTs) help kids improve their ability to function in daily childhood "occupations." A wide variety of areas are addressed by OT, including, but not limited to:

Self Care skills (such as dressing, bathing, and feeding)

Fine Motor skills (grasping and manipulating toys or utensils)

Visual Motor skills ("eye-hand coordination," such as drawing and handwriting)

Sensory Integration (Sensory Integration refers to receiving and using information obtained through sights, sounds, touch, smells, tastes, and movement. It may include "over" sensitivities or "under" sensitivities that affect the ability to pay attention to or participate in daily activities.)

Occupational Therapists assess a child's individual abilities and provide therapeutic interventions to improve participation in meaningful activities. This may include therapeutic exercises targeting specific skills, modifications to the child's environment, or training the child and family to use specialized adaptive equipment.

Physical Therapy
Pediatric Physical Therapists (PTs) assist children in achieving developmental milestones and participating in a variety of gross motor activities, such as walking, ball skills, or riding a bicycle. Areas addressed by PTs include (but are not limited to):

balance and posture
range of motion (amount of movement possible at a joint)
gait (walking pattern) and mobility (accessing/navigating in the environment)
motor planning and praxis (organizing and carrying out a "plan for movement")
overall endurance and strength for motor activities

Physical therapists evaluate a child's individual skills and provide therapeutic interventions regarding functional movement and/or posture and positioning. PTs may recommend physical activities and exercises, environmental modifications, or specialized equipment that will improve mobility or positioning.

Speech-Language Therapy
Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) work with children to enhance their ability to communicate. This includes both receptive communication (processing/understanding language) and expressive communication (vocabulary or ability to combine words or symbols to convey language). Areas addressed by SLPs include, but are not limited to, the following:

articulation (sound production)

fluency disorders (such as stuttering)

resonance (pitch,volume, or quality of voice)

dysphagia (oral motor difficulties with eating/swallowing)

SLPs assess a child's communication strengths and challenges, in order to establish an individualized therapeutic program. This may include recommendations for communicating verbally, using pictures, through signing, or with a communication device. Speech Therapists may also provide feeding therapy to address difficulties with swallowing and eating.