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Occupational Therapy
Your child might benefit from OT if they have:
· Poor coordination
· Decreased balance, the “clumsy child”
· Delayed motor skill development
· Low muscle tone or strength
· Difficulty with handwriting
· Been diagnosed with a learning disability: dyslexia, dysgraphia
· Difficulty completing tasks that seem easily attained by peers
· Behavioral or social skill issues
· Decreased attention or ability to participate in age appropriate activities
· Decreased self esteem and self concept
· Decreased visual skills including visual perceptual skills and ocular motor skills
· Difficulties with feeding, is a picky eater or a messy eater
Speech Therapy
Your child might benefit from Speech Therapy if they have:
· Decreased ability to communicate
· Limited vocabulary for their age
· Poor articulation and enunciation
· Stuttering and fluency issues
· Difficulty understanding what is said to them, difficulty following directions
· Poor verbal or written expression
· Difficulty listening in noisy environments
· Immature sentence structure, immature language, or uses nonspecific words frequently
· Decreased executive functions or memory
· Poor social skills, pragmatics
· Difficulty with feeding: low oral motor tone, drools, is a picky eater
· Decreased attention, difficulty functioning in a group setting
· Difficulty with reading, spelling, writing- dyslexia
Physical Therapy
Your child might benefit from Physical Therapy if they have:
· Gait problems
· Poor range of motion
· Delayed gross motor skills
· Low muscle tone
