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Occupational Therapy Services

Child and parent

Occupational Therapy Services
(0-5 years of age)

Rochester Hearing & Speech Center employs highly educated New York State Licensed Occupational Therapists, who specialize in evaluating, treating and facilitating sensory processing and fine motor development utilizing therapeutic, play-based interventions to address a wide range of developmental and sensory processing delays including, but not limited to:

  • Fine Motor Skills (grasping, dexterity)

  • Coordination (eye-hand coordination, using both hands to participate in activities)

  • Strength and Endurance

  • Motor Planning (following sequences of routines, completing multi-step motor movements)

  • Visual-Perception (eye tracking, matching)

  • Visual-Motor (drawing, using scissors)

  • Sensory Processing (attention to tasks, tolerating sound/touch/taste/movement, providing calming and alerting activities to help with self-regulation)

  • Oral Motor Skills (feeding, tolerating food textures/tastes)

  • Daily Living Skills (dressing, feeding, toileting)

  • Functional Play Skills (social interactions with peers/adults, functional use of toys/materials)

  • Reflex Integration

Other Support & Expertise

Other Supports and Expertise include:

  • Developing Sensory Diets (customized therapeutic intervention plan to improve ability to perform daily activities, attend for learning, appropriate social interactions, sensory regulation/modulation/processing)

  • Providing Adaptive Equipment to improve functional independence
    (feeding, positioning, sensory)

  • Oral Motor – Feeding

  • Consulting with other team members, parents and caregivers to provide
    suggestions and to ensure carryover of therapeutic activities.

  • Parent Education

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