Occupational therapy

What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapy supports functional skills like motor, cognitive, social, body awareness, sensory processing and emotional regulation. Children learn skills such as playing, dressing, enjoying food, and gaining independence in daily routines. Children use their strengths to thrive at home, school, and in the community.

Young boy sitting in a colorful therapy swing while a smiling occupational therapist supports him during a session.
Child's hands wrapping yellow string around a cardboard shape during a fine motor skills craft activity at a table.

Treatment Sessions

Therapy will provide individualized, recommendations and treatment sessions that are tailored to meet the needs of your child with strategies for supports at home and in the community. ​We believe in making therapy functional and personally relevant to you and your child to promote success outside of the session. This is done through providing parent coaching, integrating therapy into daily routines and activities of daily living, and taking advantage of home, clinic, and community settings.

All treatment models are chosen to maximize the best approach to meet your child’s goals. Some examples might be:

  • Individual therapy sessions

  • Intensive treatment over multiple days

  • Naturally occurring social opportunities

  • Parent support & education within sessions

BOLD Center Approach

​We believe in making therapy functional and personally relevant to you and your child to promote success outside of the session. This is done through providing parent coaching, integrating therapy into daily routines and activities of daily living, and taking advantage of home, clinic, and community settings.

The occupation of a child is PLAY! Therapy supports overall development and progression of skills by identifying activities that are motivating and engaging. As children learn and grow, they do this through interacting with a variety of tools, objects, and within a variety of environments or settings. This allows them to build foundational skills to support their continued development across the lifespan. If there are challenge areas which are negatively impacting their development, this can slow or stunt their progress in a variety of areas.

At BOLD center we promote development through therapeutic interventions of play, the use of fun varied equipment and exercise and movement routines, which may include music, technology devices, sports or exercise equipment and many other creative modalities.

  • Smiling girl in an orange top playing on therapy equipment with a therapist nearby, next to a green ball and a blue therapy ball.
  • Young child in a yellow shirt crawling through a black fabric tunnel while a smiling therapist supports them.
  • Toddler with blonde pigtails in a striped shirt crawling out of a colorful play tunnel.

Goal of Therapy

Occupational Therapy services will support challenges such as seeking of intense sensations or a constant need for movement, extreme sensitivity to certain stimuli (i.e. noises, clothing, smells, etc.), extremely picky eating, challenges with fine-motor skills or gross-motor skills and coordination, poor body awareness (i.e. constantly bumping into things or others), poor emotional regulation (i.e. extreme emotional ups and downs), and a variety of other challenges in any or all areas of development.

Smiling boy in a red shirt sliding down a ramp on a scooter board in a sensory gym, with wooden steps and climbing equipment nearby.

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Speech Therapy Openings

Help your child communicate clearly and confidently with with expressive and receptive speech and language skills.

A child in a red shirt climbing a rock wall using a knotted rope and colorful hand and foot holds.

Physical therapy

Strengthen movement, coordination, and motor skills through engaging exercises and play-based activities.

Feeding therapy

Compassionately address eating challenges and feeding problems with nutritionally accepted foods.

A child sitting in a chair at home using a tablet to participate in an online therapy session.

Telehealth therapy

Tele health therapy providing access to therapy supports via creative online options.