Outpatient/Clinic

OUTPATIENT ADULT AND PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION CLINIC: Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy addresses the skills needed to complete the tasks people do daily.  Treatment may be focused on therapeutic exercises, activities of daily living (ADL) retraining, pain management, medical equipment needs, wheelchair positioning, community mobility, home safety and accessibility among other areas.

 

Our team of talented therapists has specialized training in many areas including:

• Sensory Integration
• Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration (MNRI)
• Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT)
• Therapeutic Listening
• Handwriting Without Tears
• Astronaut Training
• Specialized Approaches to Feeding
• Visual Skills Training
• Zones of Regulation
• Advanced Training related to Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Trauma
• Social Thinking
• Ideational Praxis

OUTPATIENT ADULT AND PEDIATRIC REHABILITATION CLINIC

PEDIATRIC (CHILDREN):

Occupational Therapy can help children with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, sensory disorders, and other special needs. Therapists and therapy assistants can help kids learn or regain skills to be able to participate at school or work, play, drive, shop, eat or even prepare a meal.

Occupational Therapy can help children with:

  • Activities that promote independence
  • Adaptive equipment and techniques
  • Assistive technology
  • Hand therapy
  • Executive functioning skills (planning, organizing, shifting attention, multi-tasking)
  • Feeding skills
  • Ideational Praxis Skills (sequencing, playing with objects solo and with peers, knowing where our body is in space(clumsy, runs into things or people, breaks items, etc)
  • Impulse Control, safety awareness, problem solving; to help with everyday skills such as; age appropriate chores, homework
  • Feeding Skills
  • Fine motor and writing skills
  • Play skills (turn taking, cooperative play, attending, transitioning between tasks)
  • Body Regulation
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Sensory tolerance to sensory processing.  Sensory Processing difficulties (such challenges as: dislikes messy play, auditory sensitivity, thrill seekers, avoiders)
  • Transitional skills in life
  • Upper extremity and core strengthening
  • Visual perceptual and visual motor skills

 

SPOT has been an industry leader in helping children overcome sensory processing difficulties that interfere with everyday activities in childhood and developmental disabilities:

  • Ensuring Proper Physical, Mental And Social Development
  • Making therapy fun to allow the child to build confidence to want to improve and master challenges in their everyday life
  • Techniques That Have Proven Successful In The Home and Community and School

ADULT:

Occupational Therapy can evaluate adults regarding:

  • Executive functioning including attention, memory, planning, reasoning, organization and problem solving
  • Gross motor and fine motor skills
  • Handwriting and hand dexterity
  • Pain management
  • Sensory processing skills, including sensitivity training to touch, movement and noise
  • Strength and coordination
  • Visual perception and visual motor skills
  • Wheelchair positioning and special equipment needs.

Our Occupational Therapists treat people with:

  • Autism spectrum disorder
  • Brain injury
  • Cancer
  • Cerebral palsy or other pediatric conditions
  • Developmental delay
  • Lymphedema
  • Movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease
  • Neurological disorders
  • Orthopedic conditions, like recovery from total knee and hip surgeries, back and neck problems, and sprains and strains of the shoulder wrist and hand
  • Sports-related injuries, back problems and other injuries
  • Spina bifida
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Stroke
  • Visual Concerns

VISION REHAB THERAPY:  We offer interventions to help enhance vision skills and techniques for low vision.

Low vision can be described as a visual problem that cannot be corrected by standard glasses or medical interventions. The causes of low vision can range from eye diseases like Macular Degeneration, Diabetes, Glaucoma and Cataracts or can be a result of Neurological conditions such as Stroke, Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. Low vision can also occur as a natural degeneration or aging process of the healthy eye.

Low vision can affect seniors in ways they may not fully realize. It can even jeopardize your independence.

The effects can include:

  • Increased fall risk, especially in unfamiliar surroundings
  • Difficulty writing checks and paying bills
  • Difficulty reading drug and food labels
  • Problems with overall safety
  • Withdrawal from social interactions

Cognitive Performance Testing

Cognitive Performance Testing (CPT) may be used to assess thinking and processing skills that are important for independent living. Therapists will observe a person’s performance on tasks that are new and those that are routine. These might include setting up medications, getting information over the phone and using money to purchase a familiar item. Cognitive Performance Testing is helpful for people who have a diagnosis of mild cognitive loss and/or dementia. Caregivers are encouraged to attend the session with the individual. They are included in the review of the test results. A referral is needed for Cognitive Performance Test.