Buckeye Therapy Services provides pediatric occupational therapy for children ages infant to teens. We offer home and school based services.   

 

What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy? 

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Our pediatric occupational therapists evaluate a child’s current skills for playing, school performance, and daily activities and compare them with what is developmentally appropriate for that age group.  OT’s help children perform daily activities they may find challenging by addressing sensory, social, behavioral, motor, and environmental issues.

 

 

Who Benefits from Occupational Therapy?

 

We work with children from infancy to 18 years of age that have a variety of disorders including, but not limited to, the following:

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• Cerebral Palsy

• Head Injury

• Down Syndrome

• Autism

• Developmental Delays

• Sensory Processing Disorders

• Birth Injury or Birth Defects

• Orthopedic Injury

• Genetic Disorders

• Trauma

• Learning Disabilities

• ADD, ADHD

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What can parents expect from Occupational Therapy?

 

We help kids work on the following areas:

• fine motor skills to help kids more successfully participate in play and classroom activities including writing, drawing, cutting with scissors or typing on a computer.

• visual-perceptual motor skills to improve writing legibility, drawing, puzzles, and copying text.    

• eye-hand coordination so that the child can catch a ball, hit a target, and perform construction activities.

• strengthen core and upper bodies for better balance and posture to support gross and fine motor abilities. 

• sensory processing so that the child can better focus, self regulate, participate socially and engage in daily living activities.

• motor planning so that the child can participate in learning and performing new skills and activities.  

• daily living skills, such as dressing, feeding and grooming.

• increasing confidence, self esteem, decreasing anxiety and having fun while learning and building skills.  

 

Our therapists are specially trained in the following areas:

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• ​​Sensory Integration and Self Regulation 

• Multi-Sensory Handwriting Approaches 

• Rhythmic and Primitive Reflex Integration Movements

• Therapeutic Listening

• Bal-A-Vis-X

• Irlen Syndrome Diagnositcs and Interventions

• Anxiety and trauma intervention

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