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“Play is a Child’s Work”
About Us: Occupational therapy is a form of intervention in which the therapist and child work to develop or improve the necessary skills for functional daily living through activity. Therapy can target skills needed for: school readiness/performance, motor skills, coordination, cognitive and perceptual skills, self care and social skills, as well as sensory processing skills such as focus/attention, calming/regulatory behaviors and more.
Pediatric Occupational Therapy is centered around play, which a child’s most prominent occupation. Through play children learn about the environment around them as well as key concepts that create foundations for later life skills.
Occupational Therapy:
Occupational Therapy provides evaluation of gross motor skills, oral motor development, visual perception, fine motor abilities, and sensory integrative functioning. Sensory integration is the ability to process and respond to sensory information from touch, movement, vision, and hearing.
Our Occupational Therapists, licensed by the state of California, are authorized and qualified to provide occupational therapy evaluation, treatment planning, treatment, instruction, and consultative services.
Common Definitions
Sensory Integration- The ability of the brain and body to take incoming sensory information from the environment and create an efficient motor response.
Vestibular input- The receptors for the vestibular system are located in the inner ear and give us information about where our body is in space and how our bodies are moving in conjunction with the environment. This system also helps with our balance and coordination.
Proprioceptive Input- The receptors are located in the muscles and joints and register active input to helps us know where our body parts are in space in relation to each other.
Tactile Input- Touch receptors are in the skin and provide information about our environment. These receptors alert the brain to different types of touch and where they are located on the body (sharp, dull, smooth, dangerous, calming).
Motor Planning- the ability to have an idea how to do something, plan it out, and sequence the movements needed to complete the idea.
Modulation- The brain’s regulation of the body’s activity. Modulation involves the brain being able to filter out irrelevant information from the environment and attend to the task at hand. Example, Being able to attend to one’s homework while the television is on, a fan is blowing air across your face, and people are walking in and out of the room.
“Does my child need OT?”
A child may need an OT assessment and or ongoing treatment if they are having difficulty with one or more of the following:
- Overly sensitive to certain sensations/textures
- Poor attention to task
- Poor fine motor skills – handwriting, grasping/picking up objects,
- buttoning/zipping
- Immature gross motor skills- hopping, balance, coordination
- Difficulty calming self/Difficulty staying alert
- Exaggerated behaviors or reactions
- Difficulty transitioning or accepting change in environment or routine
- Limited play skills/social development
- Poor self care skills
WE LOVE WHAT WE DO AND IT SHOWS!
About us. Teaching successful communication skills while having fun is our mission. At Jabbergym, we believe that the ability to communicate is the single most important skill that a child can acquire. Expression and understanding of language allows children to participate in their environment. The ability to listen, gesture, and speak creates access to social relationships and gives children the ability to get their wants and needs met.
Speech-Language Therapy. The Jabbergym employs master’s level, licensed speech language pathologists and credentialed educational therapists. We offer support for children having special needs including Autism, PDD, Asperger’s, Down Syndrome, oral apraxia, auditory processing, hearing loss and other developmental delays.
Common Definitions.
- Speech – Refers to the sounds that come out of your child’s mouth, and take shape in the form of words
- Articulation – refers to how your child pronounces individual words. Often known as their “clarity of speech” (caw/car)
- Phonology – the ability to produce and discriminate specific sounds of English language (guck/duck, gook/book)
- Oral Motor Function/Feeding – the ability of your child’s jaw, tongue, lips, and other muscles to move adequately for clear speech production and swallowing
- Fluency – the steady flow of speech.
- Voice – the quality and volume of vocal output
Individual speech-language classes include:
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE - refers to the ability to express one’s wants and needs.
- Pulling a parent or pointing toward a wanted item to get needs met
- Gesturing/signing to get a want or need met
- Spoken language
- Syntax/Grammar-use of language rules
- Semantics/Vocabulary- variety of word use
RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE - refers to the ability to understand and comprehend information
- Maintains attention towards speaker
- Comprehends verbal or gestured messages
- Follows simple directions
- Ability to focus on people/items talked about in conversation
- Points to pictures or items when named
PRAGMATICS - refers to the social uses of language
- Eye contact
- Turn taking in conversation
- Uses appropriate words in social conversation
- Takes the perspective of the listener
- Understands and appropriately uses body language and expressions
AUDITORY PROCESSING - refers to one’s ability to understand and process/decode spoken language
- The ability to stay focused on one conversation when other distractions are occurring
- Actively listening to the speaker
- Ability to hear differences between sounds and words (auditory discrimination)
- Ability to follow directions/answer question when given verbally
- Ability to sound out words when reading
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