Advantages Of Having At-Home Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Are you looking for a way to help your child improve their ability to perform activities like feeding, grooming, toileting, and dressing? Are you looking to help your child improve their ability to perform specific movements during everyday activities or school tasks? At Libra Occupational Therapy in Plano, TX, our occupational therapists will come to your home to ensure your child gets the care they deserve!
Occupational therapy (OT) is a great way to learn how to overcome hurdles, improve performance and learn new skills. Our occupational therapists are skilled at increasing mobility, dexterity, coordination, and strength throughout the upper extremities.
Our home-based occupational therapists can also help with physical, psychological, and cognitive processing to help your child improve their ability to complete the most important roles in their daily lives, including at home and school.
If your child has an injury, recently had surgery, or has a medical condition preventing them from enjoying an active life, our occupational therapists at Libra Occupational Therapy in Plano, TX can help.
Call today to request an at-home consultation with one of our therapists and see how we can help your child thrive once and for all!
What is at-home occupational therapy?
A home-based pediatric occupational therapist helps children do what they want and need to do through their daily activities (occupations). The main goal of pediatric occupational therapy is to help children improve their function and participate successfully in their everyday activities, school responsibilities, and recreational/sports participation.
Having one of our pediatric occupational therapists come to your home benefits the child and the caregivers. Our team will educate and help implement strategies into your child’s daily routines and activities.
For some parents, it can be hard to maintain the programs outlined by the occupational therapist, which makes having the therapist in their home so helpful. It allows the parents to observe the routines and learn how to help ensure the programs are incorporated into daily routines to ensure optimal results.
Our Libra Occupational Therapy in Plano, TX pediatric occupational therapists specialize in the following:
Gross motor skills and development:
- Motor planning and praxis
- Bilateral coordination
- Right/Left discrimination
- Ball skills and hand-eye coordination
Fine motor coordination and manual control:
- Handwriting
- Visual-motor Integration
- Overall strength and hand development
- In-hand manipulation and translation skills
Sensory Processing and Modulation:
- Body awareness/position in space
- Sensory defensiveness or avoidance
- Sensory seeking
- Attention and organizational abilities
- Multisensory processing
Self-regulation:
- Calming/arousing tools
- Promoting self-awareness of arousal level
- Frustration tolerance
- Behavior management
Self-help skills:
- Dressing
- Feeding difficulties (related to texture, temperature, etc.)
- Hygiene
- Toileting
Our at-home OTs can help your child’s play and social skills development to ensure they can participate in the everyday activities kids love to do!
What to expect from occupational therapy
At Libra Occupational Therapy in Plano, TX, our pediatric occupational therapists are skilled at dealing with the most challenging cases and using the most advanced research-backed treatment strategies to ensure you maximize your child’s outcomes.
Our occupational therapist will start with an individual assessment to determine the source of any issue they are dealing with. This will include assessing any pain, range of motion deficits, weaknesses, coordination and dexterity abilities, and your child’s goals. This information will help us customize activities focused on improving your child’s daily tasks.
Your child’s therapist is skilled at hands-on intervention and exercise selection for the most comprehensive and appropriate intervention to help you improve and/or restore their function.
Our treatments typically include manual therapy, joint mobilization manipulation, therapeutic exercise, and strategies for improved processing. It’s sometimes necessary to include techniques, like custom splinting, to help restore function for specific situations and tasks.
Our at-home pediatric occupational therapists from Libra Occupational Therapy in Plano, TX offer programs that can optimize the functional use of the arm and hand. We take a holistic approach to occupational therapy and believe it can be integrated into care plans with physical and speech therapy. We will work with other healthcare providers to help your child’s independence in their daily routines!
Request an appointment at Libra Occupational Therapy today!
Occupational therapy goes beyond addressing and preventing injuries. At Libra Occupational Therapy in Plano, TX, our pediatric therapist will implement interventions, consider your child’s functional needs, implement activities to promote psychological well-being, and work closely with you to help your child reach their goals!
If you want to begin improving your child’s quality of life and ability to do the things they love, call to request an appointment today!
Sources:
- https://research.aota.org/ajot/article-abstract/74/4/7404205010p1/8439/Occupational-Therapy-Group-Interventions-in
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1440-1630.12615
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- https://research.aota.org/ajot/article-abstract/72/4/7204190050p1/6459/Occupational-Therapy-Interventions-to-Improve
- https://www.aota.org