Occupational Therapy

Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Pediatric occupational therapy specializes in treating and caring for patients who are infants through adolescents. We treat conditions related to genetic, neuromuscular, and physical disorders. Our goal is to help children perform the common tasks necessary to function in their everyday activities associated with self-care, feeding, and regulation.

Your Child Might Need Occupational Therapy if You are Concerned About or if Your Child has Been Diagnosed with:

  • Developmental Delays
  • Fine Motor Coordination Difficulties (Challenges with Activities of Daily Living – such as hygiene, dressing, writing, etc.)
  • Visual Motor & Perceptual Impairments
  • Sensory Processing Disorder
  • Prematurity
  • Feeding Difficulties / Oral Motor Delays / Picky Eaters
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Down syndrome (Trisomy 21)
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Other Genetic Disorders

maXum Therapy’s Approaches and Techniques Include

  • Self-Care/Home Management Training/ ADL’s
  • Neuromuscular Re-education
  • Feeding Management
  • Energy Conservation
  • Sensory Integrative Techniques and Strategies
  • Self-regulation Training
  • Therapeutic Activities
  • Compensatory Skills and Adaptive Equipment Training
  • Perception/Cognition Retraining
  • Therapeutic Exercises Addressing Functional Strengthening and Coordination
  • Manual Therapy
  • Neuro Developmental Techniques
  • Caregiver/Family Training and Education