Pediatric occupational therapy helps children develop skills to perform their activities of daily living: play, academic, and self-care tasks. Pediatric occupational therapists evaluate and treat self-regulation skills, sensory processing skills, balance, coordination, cognitive, fine motor, visual motor and handwriting skills.
Jane brings expertise and experience to develop highly specialized treatment plans for each child. Using your child’s interests and strengths, Jane combines motivating, play-based themes with well-researched interventions and non-traditional techniques. We will discover your child’s path to optimal health and functioning together while having fun!
Treatment Techniques
Sensory Integration
Sensory Diet
Safe and Sound Protocol
Integrated Listening Systems- Focus Program
Home and School Consultations
Zones of Regulation
Handwriting Without Tears
Reflex Integration
Sequential Oral Sensory Approach to Feeding
Yoga and Mindfulness
Sensory Integration
Sensory Integration is a child-led technique that involves enagaging in specific sensory activities to help them learn appropriate responses to light, sound, touch, smells, and other input.
Sensory Diet
A sensory diet is a set of activities that use of specific types of sensory input; proprioceptive, tactile, visual, auditory, vestibular designed to assist the brain in regulating attention and an appropriate level of arousal. It is a plan that should be carried out on a daily basis by a parent or caregiver at home.
Integrated Listening Systems- Focus Program
Music-based training using movement, balance and coordination exercises. Digitally enhanced and filtered music along with bone conduction exercises your brain and stimulates the vestibular system. This program is beneficial for people with learning and attention issues, autism/sensory challenges, trauma/anxiety and anyone looking for overall improved brain function. The Focus Program is designed to be performed at home 3-5 times per week and can be rented or purchased.
Sequential Oral Sensory Approach to Feeding (SOS)
The SOS Approach to Feeding exposes children to new food by allowing them to explore food in a playful, non-stressful way. They are taken through a developmental progression of eating and gradually guided toward expanding their diet.
Handwriting Without Tears
A handwriting program that uses developmentally appropriate, yet fun teaching methods to help children to improve handwriting skills.
Zones of Regulation
The Zones of Regulation is used to teach self-regulation by categorizing our emotions and the states of alertness into four colored zones. The Zones provides strategies to teach students to become more aware of controlling their feelings and impulses and managing their sensory needs.
Reflex Integration
Reflexes are automatic movements that develop prior to birth and during infancy. They help support early development, but if later unintegrated, can affect higher level movement, behavior and learning. Using techniques from Masgutova Neurosensory Reflex Integration and Rhythmic Movement Training, you and your child can learn exercises to support reflex integration.
Yoga and Mindfulness
Yoga increases body awareness, relieves stress, reduces muscle tension, increases attention and concentration, and calms and centers the nervous system. Work with a registered yoga teacher to learn calming mind-body exercises, breathing, mindfulness and basic meditative exercises.