Manish Patel
Get complete details what your child with ADHD is facing and how they can be helped by OT.
To understand the benefits of occupational therapy (OT) for children who’ve been diagnosed with ADHD you must understand what both things are – ADHD and OT. Only then can you really understand how your child will benefit from it.
There are many misconceptions when it comes to occupational therapy for kids. This mainly comes from people not quite understanding the point of occupational therapy. Children can get, and benefit from, occupational therapy because it helps to enhance their skills and development. This type of therapy is meant to help a child develop to where a normal life becomes possible, plus it is individualized to meet each child’s specific needs.
Speech Therapy Treatment session is designed based on the needs of the child, so therapy may look very different depending on the goals being addressed.
At Speech & Occupational Therapy of North Texas, families frequently ask about the structure of a pediatric speech therapy session. A treatment session is designed based on the needs of the child, so therapy may look very different depending on the goals being addressed. First, the speech-language pathologist (also referred to as SLP) develops a treatment plan based on a detailed assessment. A good pediatric speech and language assessment is comprised of a thorough case history, as well as observation and standardized or criterion-referenced assessment tools. A pediatric speech-language pathologist frequently assesses receptive and expressive language, vocabulary and articulation. Other areas of a suspected challenge may be assessed, such as oral motor weakness, feeding and swallowing, apraxia, pragmatics, disfluency (stuttering), and auditory processing.
In business since 2001, Speech & Occupational Therapy of North Texas has provided excellent pediatric therapy to our community for over a decade. It has always been ...
