An Individualized Approach
1-on-1 Care
At Kiddie Therapy, we set goals and meet them! We provide individualized attention for your child to ensure optimal success through fun and motivational therapy. Each therapy session is client centered and tailored to your child’s specific needs and interests to ensure the best results.
Play
When working with the pediatric population, play is the best form of therapy for children. At Kiddie Therapy, we use play as a successful way for therapy to keep children interested, motivated and committed to their success. The therapy approach we use is interactive, client centered, and meaningful for each individual child.
Learn
Yes we play, yes we have fun, but most importantly we learn! Our multidimensional therapy approach not only improves your child’s motor skills, but academic strengthening as well. With an extensive background of school based experience, Kiddie Therapy focuses on excelling student’s handwriting skills through a variety of different techniques and encourage school readiness skills/ behaviors.
HELPING CHILDREN GROW
Kiddie Therapy provides client centered Occupational Therapy services to children to improve on their overall academic, social and emotional skills.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are the ability to use coordinated precise movements with the intrinsic (“smaller”) muscles of the hand for functional tasks. When kids show a delay in their fine motor skills, they can show difficulties with grasping, writing, cutting and coloring.
Visual motor integration/ Visual perception
Visual motor integration refers to integrating visual information with a motor response. Visual perception is the ability to recognize and identify shapes, form, size, colors, letters and numbers adequately. When children have delayed visual skills, they can show difficulties with cutting, coloring, constructing blocks or other related toys, completing puzzles and handwriting.
Bilateral Coordination
Bilateral coordination is the ability to use both sides of your body together in a coordinated way to complete a functional task. Creating awareness of both sides of the body through therapy is important to strengthen bilateral coordination. It is required for everyday tasks like dressing, climbing, cutting, writing, and coloring.
Praxis
Praxis is a more complex skill that skilled occupational therapists can address through playful, imaginative and fun therapy. Praxis is a three- step skill, which includes ideation, motor planning and execution. When children have difficulty with completing novel (i.e. new) tasks, it can often be related to difficulties with praxis.
Sensory Systems
Sensory integration is the body’s ability to organize sensory information for use. Poor integration of sensation may result from difficulties with how the nervous system receives, organizes, and uses sensory information from the body and the physical environment for self-regulation, motor planning, and skill development.
Handwriting
Occupational Therapist’s are often known for improving on student’s handwriting performances. Whether it’s copying from a near or far point model, OTs are helpful with improving on overall handwriting skills!
Meet Me -
Sharlene Natan
MA, OTR/L
Master of Arts, Occupational Therapy
Sharlene has expertise working with the pediatric population with a variety of needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and rare genetic and/or neurological disorders. She loves working with children and has a unique approach for success.
