In home Occupational therapy helps kids with so many real life activities, we need our body to be regulated and integrated in a way that allows our brain to relax, play, and learn new things! In-home OT integrates family goals and priorities with therapist expertise and experience to help improve kids quality of life! Therapy sessions often look a lot like real life, practicing our everyday activities, playing with others, and learning how to engage more fully with the world around us and those we love!
There are so many benefits to occupational therapy in a child’s natural environment. Many of our families and kiddos struggle to implement recommendations provided by occupational therapists in a clinical setting because when they go home they don’t have all the amazing equipment that their clinics/schools have (swings, climbing walls, gyms, etc.). But we love UTILIZING the home environment and what the kids already have around them.
Our sensory systems help us experience the world around us through our senses (sight, smell, touch, taste, and sound), and it can be a scary place out there if your nervous system doesn’t know how to handle all that stimulus! Sensory Occupational Therapy teaches kids how to understand all this input and process it in a way that allows our bodies and brains to keep on learning and playing. Sensory OT can address challenges with touch like getting our hands dirty, sound like being totally freaked out by the sound of a public restroom, or even taste like learning about purees that are squishy like yogurt. Sensory OT is truly at the heart of ALL OT provided at Family Chatterbox