Occupational Therapy enhances your child's play skills, school performance, and daily engagement. Our tailored approach promotes independence and a supportive environment for growth. We target specific developmental challenges, collaborating to help your child gain essential skills. Sessions prioritize accomplishment, boosting self-esteem and encouraging new challenges. Whether in-home, in-school, or in-clinic, our therapists make learning enjoyable, empowering your child to fully participate in life.

At FYZICAL Kids, our feeding therapy plans are tailored to each client's specific needs and goals, creating an individualized plan that works for your child. We can address needs related to the following areas:

• Poor milk transfer in infants (from breast or bottle)

• Slow weight gain or failure to thrive

• Sensory sensitivities to food or selective eating behaviors 

• Behavioral difficulties around mealtimes 

• ARFID

• Difficulty with oral-motor coordination ("messy" eaters!) 

• Tongue and lip tie (both pre- and post-revision) 

  Contact us with questions or to see if we can help with your child's specific needs!

At FYZICAL Kids, we help children with sensory processing differences by addressing the neurological cause of sensory processing inefficiencies. Most sensory-based treatment programs are band-aid solutions to sensory challenges, offering superficial and short-term methods to compensate for sensory processing deficits.

Not ours!

We complete in-depth and specialized testing that provides us with detailed information about your child's current sensory processing skills, what areas of the brain are at play for the processing inefficiencies that are present, and what neurotransmitters need to be addressed (and how and in what order). We then design and implement sensory protocols that are specific to your child's underlying cause(s) for sensory processing inefficiency to produce long-lasting, meaningful change that can be generalized across settings!

Our techniques are easy to learn and can be taught to parents, teachers, and other caregivers for consistent carryover and faster progress. 

Our therapists are specially trained to address fine-motor, visual-motor, and gross motor skills. We can address needs in many areas, including:

• in-hand manipulation,

• grasping skills

• utensil use

• scissoring skills

• clothing/fastener manipulation

• pre-writing and handwriting skills

• drawing

• coloring

• copying

• catching

• balance

• strength and endurance

• and coordination skills for improved participation in play and leisure activities. 

We partner with the CDSA to provide early intervention services to children from birth to 3, and also work with children beyond that age range to meet key developmental milestones throughout childhood. 

• visual tracking

• rolling

• sitting independently

• crawling (ask us why this is SO IMPORTANT!!!)

• playing with toys effectively

• transitioning to solid foods

• transitioning to straws and open cups

• grasping and releasing items efficiently

• play skills

• social skills

• recognition/identification of emotions and emotional regulation

• early dressing skills

• utensil use

• prewriting and drawing skills

• reciprocal body movements (as required for skills like walking up stairs or riding a bike)

• throwing and catching

• jumping and climbing

At FYZICAL Kids, we use carefully designed interactive experiences to promote social skills, functional behavior in a small group setting, and reciprocity in play. We also focus on skills such as how to meet/greet others, how to approach others for play, how to cope with frustration tolerance, and how to problem-solve alongside peers to enrich existing relationships and encourage development of new ones. 

We can also address needs in the following areas:

• Executive Function Skills (attention/focus, organization, working memory, impulse control, problem-solving, decision-making)

• Motor-planning

• Auditory processing

• Visual-perceptual and visual-spatial skills

• Environmental modifications (at home or school, to help your child functional optimally across their routine environments)

• Potty-training and associated readiness skills

• Interoception (recognition of internal cues that recognize hunger, thirst, pain, temperature, the need to empty bladder and bowels, etc.)

• Consulting services, providing education about, and solutions for, your child's needs to their school, teachers, and other caregivers

• Parent coaching, providing practical and effective strategies to parents about how to address their child's needs across settings