Occupational Therapy

	Robin  McMahon, Occupational Therapist
	Amanda Rhodes, Occupational Therapist

Occupational therapy focuses on the therapeutic use of movement and play to enhance one’s development to promote improved sensory processing, fine and gross motor skills, and overall self-care.  Our occupational therapists help children, adolescents, and adults to develop those necessary skills to lead more independent and fulfilling lives through enhancing the following skills:

• Balance/coordination
• Strength/core stability
• Fine motor
• Visual perception/visual motor
• Handwriting
• Peer play
• Oral motor /feeding/oral sensory
• Activities of daily living (i.e.; dressing, self-care, home management) development
• Focus/attention/organization
• Ability to self-regulate

Our therapists have specialized training in the following areas:

• SIPT (Sensory Integration Praxis Test) Certification
• Alert Program (“How Does Your Engine Run?” )
• Beckman’s Oral Motor Assessment and Treatment
• Talk Tools Therapy (Oral Motor Program)
• Handwriting Without Tears
• Astronaut Training Program (A Sound Activated Vestibular-Visual Training)
• From Eyesight to Insight (Visual/Vestibular Assessment and Treatment)
• Therapeutic Listening
• SOS Approach to Feeding

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The Learning Spectrum
125 Dillmont Road, Columbus, Oh  43235
(614)844-5433