Occupational Therapy

Depending on the child’s developmental level, an evaluation might include: sensorimotor/gross motor skills, including balance, coordination, motor planning and sensory processing abilities; muscle tone and influence in arm function; fine motor skills; visual skills; play skills; vocational and prevocational skills; and activities-of-daily-living skills such as clothes manipulation and cooking skills.

Services may focus on enhancing the child's ability to perform at their highest level in the school environment. Services may include:

• Improving, developing or restoring functions impaired or lost through illness, injury, or deprivation.
• Improving ability to perform tasks for independent functioning when functions are impaired or lost.
• Preventing, through early intervention, initial or further impairment or loss of function.
• Provide instruction or adaptation with necessary equipment that enables a child to function within the school environment and its demands.

Physical Therapy

Evaluation, prescribed by a licensed physician, might include an assessment of range of motion, muscle tone, strength, stability, locomotion and/or mobility, balance, reflexes, sensation, coordination, endurance, and developmental and/or functional skills. Services may include:

• Recommending adaptive equipment to assist with ambulation, wheelchair mobility and positioning.
• Providing exercise programs as appropriate with the ultimate goal of becoming more functional within the school environment.
• Providing instruction or adaptation concerning mobility and function within the school environment.