Occupational Therapy

OTC’s occupational therapy providers (OTs and OTAs) deliver comprehensive evaluations, consultations, and personalized support to help individuals fully engage in meaningful activities. Our therapists embrace a neuro-affirming perspective, celebrating neurodiversity and tailoring interventions to each person’s unique strengths and needs through a strengths-based, person-centered approach. Using detailed activity analysis, we identify the performance skills necessary for participation in daily occupations, ensuring that interventions are developmentally appropriate and aligned with each individual’s goals and abilities.

Analysis of performance skills includes:

• Cognitive level and skill development
• Fine motor development
• Sensory processing and integration
• Self-regulation and Mindfulness
• Visual perceptual and visual motor skills
• Handwriting skills

With the understanding of an individual’s performance skills, the occupational therapy practitioner can create intervention plans with the individual and their family to support meaningful participation in daily life, work, school, pre-vocational, and leisure activities. We also provide guidance and recommendations for adaptive equipment, strategies, and environmental modifications to promote accessibility and independence.

In schools, our OTPs focus on helping students engage in the occupations of childhood—play, being a student, successful interactions with peers and staff, and taking on responsibility for life tasks. We recognize that each child develops and learns differently, and our person-centered approach supports each child's sensory-motor and neurocognitive needs using a strengths-based approach. We draw upon a range of frames of reference for interventions that respect each child's learning style and needs, integrating tools like handwriting programs, social-emotional learning, cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness strategies, into the treatment sessions.

Our team works collaboratively across disciplines to provide continuity of care, ensuring that each student receives holistic support in meeting their goals.