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
- Prematurity
- Torticollis
- Tip-toe walking
- Fine motor coordination difficulties (challenges with activities of daily living – such as hygiene, dressing, writing, etc.)
- Poor coordination
- Impaired balance
- Tone abnormalities (spasticity or hypotonia)
- Muscular weakness
- Gait impairments
- Decreased/impaired functional movement
- Visual motor & perceptual impairments
- Sensory processing disorder
- Feeding difficulties / oral motor delays / picky eaters
- Orthotic/equipment management
- Autism spectrum disorder
- 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