Occupational Therapy Groups

Movers and Shakers will include informal pre-assessment and individualized goals, with resources and home program activities for additional summer practice. Sessions will incorporate high-intensity sensory-motor adventures to facilitate regulation, coordination, and core strength. Fine motor challenges will target hand strength and finger isolation for an optimal pencil grasp and fine motor control. An efficient task approach, problem solving, and independence will be facilitated through a variety of visual perceptual and spatial organization activities. Each session will address aspects of handwriting readiness and include efficient formation, accuracy on lines, and spacing for legibility and automaticity.

Back-to-School OT Boot Camp is geared towards children who would benefit from a "tune-up" for handwriting readiness and efficient work habits before going back to school.  Groups will be led by licensed occupational therapists, with goals individualized by age and grade level, in rotating stations. Stations will include handwriting review (including letter formation, accuracy on lines, pencil grasp and control, and sentence mechanics); sensory-motor adventures for regulation, core strength, and coordination; and fine-motor, visual-motor, and spatial games to consolidate foundational skills. Participants will also have opportunities to collaborate, problem solve, practice response inhibition and working memory strategies, and independence with routines.