Hope's Playground Pediatric Therapy

An Occupational Therapist can help your child in the following areas:

-Fine motor, visual motor, and visual-perceptual skills

-Upper extremity (arm) and hand strengthening

-Print and cursive handwriting- "Handwriting Without Tears"

-Self-care skills (self-feeding, eating, dressing, etc.)

-Sensory processing

-Therapeutic Listening

-Motor planning and coordination

-Adaptive equipment

-Play skills

-Social skills

A Physical Therapist can help your child in the following areas:

-Gross motor skills

-Muscle strength and endurance

-Balance and coordination

-Pre-gait and gait training

-Wheelchair positioning and mobility

-Assessment of equipment needs

-Orthotics

-Serial casting 

-Play skills

-Social skills

A Speech Language Pathologist can help your child in the following areas:

-Receptive and expressive language skills

-Speech production

-Articulation and phonetics

-Feeding and swallowing

- The (S.O.S.) sequential oral sensory approach to feeding

-Oral motor skills

-Augmentative and alternative communication

-Using and understanding gestures and facial expressions

-Problem solving and reasoning

-Play skills

-Social skills