Occupational therapists help children succeed in meeting the daily occupations of childhood – play, school, and self-help activities.

Occupational Therapy for children at the PPEC center involves optimizing the child's ability to independently play and explore their environment through the use of their hands and their senses. We work with infants and pre-school aged children that have difficulties in movement, coordination and cognitive functions. We encourage children to explore their environment which in turn optimizes their ability to learn. Occupational Therapy will promote your child’s learning by encouraging sensory rich play within an age appropriate developmentally stimulating environment.

Occupational Therapy will encourage and optimize success in the following areas:

• Fine motor coordination (refinement of hand strength and dexterity)
• Cognitive development (includes development of a child’s learning style and ability to understand concepts)
• Upper body strengthening
• Positioning
• Self Help: feeding, grooming, dressing
• Sensory Processing Skills: the ability to appropriately register, attend to, interpret, and execute a response to sensory input from the environment and from within the body