Physician referral to Occupational Therapy facilitates evaluation and treatment of individuals from infancy through geriatrics. Therapy is offered in a variety of settings. These include: inpatient acute care, Skilled Nursing Unit, Home Health, school systems, outpatient, and on site at industries. Services are provided by registered and state licensed occupational therapists and certified assistants.

• Restoring Activities of Daily Living
• Upper Extremity Treatment
• Hand Therapy
• Tendon Injury Management
• Developmental Delay Therapy
• Visual Therapy...click for more information
• Work Reconditioning
• Ergonomic Consultation
• Post Offer - Pre-Placement Screening
• Stroke Rehabilitation
• Treatment of Cumulative Trauma Disorders
• Splinting
• Shoulder Rehabilitation
• Motor Control Therapy
• Family Training
• Outpatient Pediatric Therapy
• Job Task Analysis
• Brain Injury Rehabilitation

• Orientate clothing, shoes & socks
• Right & left discrimination while dressing
• Back & front discrimination while dressing
• Strategies, techniques & ideas for cues when dressing (visual, physical or verbal)
• Feeding: grasp, bilateral co-ordination (knife & fork), strength, control
• Bathing: includes back care techniques for parents. Sequencing body parts to wash (rhyme)
• Hygiene: toileting, grooming (hair & teeth brushing), nail care

• Dressing: clothes or shoes on backwards
• Dressing: shoes on wrong feet
• Food is pushed off plate
• Messy eaters

• Finger, hand strength, position & stability
• Pencil grip & control
• Wrist &/or forearm control
• Copying shapes
• Fluency / finger movements
• Spatial organization (space & letter formation
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• Quality of work
• Visual perception skills
• Speed & dexterity
• Tweezers, scissors, finger isolated movements

• No interest in fine motor skills
• Gross pencil grasp
• Poor scissor skills
• Clumsy grasp & release skills
• Difficulty holding small objects, manipulating tools, pencils or scissors
• Unable to complete mazes, dot-to-dots, etc
• Difficulty copying text from whiteboard or blackboard

• Ball skills - throwing & catching, hitting ball
• Balance: Hopping, balancing on one leg, walking on a balance beam, walking heel-toe
• Clumsiness
• Awkward running or jumping
• Co-ordination of body sides: difficulty skipping, doing star jumps
• Difficulty with dancing, Simon Says

• Flinching or other responses when catching a ball
• Fear response to gross motor activities
• Level of avoidance or motivation to gross motor activities
• Unable to hop, skip, jump, run, etc
• Difficulty co-ordinating body sides