Occupational Therapy
Promoting the child’s development, confidence, and participation in the environments in which they live, work, and play.
Occupational Therapy (OT)
Peach Tree’s occupational therapists help develop skills and confidence in home, classroom, and other environments by supporting self-care and healthy independence.
What does Occupational Therapy (OT) address?
- Difficulty with fine motor and gross motor coordination
- Child with difficulty processing sensory information
- Difficulty with handwriting
- Clumsy or frequently falling
- Decreased self-regulation and emotional regulation
- Difficulty with social skills and building/maintaining relationships
- Difficulty toilet training
- Child that is not meeting developmental milestones (sitting up, rollling, grasping, crawling, walking)
- Attention difficulties
- Feeding difficulties or children with limited diets
- A child that has difficulty wearing clothes
- Occupational therapy is currently offered at our Bozeman location for children ages 18 months to adulthood.
Understanding Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists help children and their families engage in wide set of skills needed for everyday life. “Occupations” are not just careers but include any meaningful ways in which people of all ages spend their time. For kids, this means mostly play and school.
At Peach Tree Pediatric Therapy Center, our occupational therapists will assess and support your child’s motor skills, ability to regulate, sensory processing, reflexes, social skills, cognitive skills, visual skills, and strength — all foundational capabilities that can positively impact your child’s ability to engage in everyday activities.
OT differs from and complements ABA therapy — OT focuses largely on skills and capacities, supporting the development of positive behaviors through ABA and other holistic therapeutic approaches and science-based interventions.
Helping children better interact with their surrounding environment through occupational therapy has far-reaching positive effects.
What to Expect – The Peach Tree Therapy Model
Peach Tree respects and value each child’s identity and unique intelligence, and we help them find success through their own passions and strengths.
The team of occupational therapists at Peach Tree are licensed professionals who are held to high standards. After you have been referred to us by a pediatrician, our OTs can help with the process and journey of evaluation and therapy.
Our treatment methods are effective and empirically validated, as well as compassionate. The amount and focus of therapy your child needs will be based on the occupational therapist’s recommendations, and will be individualized to the specific needs of your child and their unique needs. Often, children come in a few times a week for an hour at a time. At Peach Tree, we believe that parent involvement is a critical component to the success of therapy, and parents will be asked to play an active role. We also believe that supportive, positive, and fun learning environment is key, and we center our therapy around play.
Caregivers will be given resources, home programming, and education, as well as access to counseling. Our hope is that families feel supported and confident in their new skills to be able to apply them outside of the therapy room.
Our treatment methods are effective and empirically validated, as well as compassionate. The amount and focus of therapy your child needs will be based on the occupational therapist’s recommendations, and will individualized to the specific needs of your child. Often, children come in a few times a week for an hour at a time. At Peach Tree, we believe that parent involvement is a critical component to the success of therapy, and parents will be asked to play an active role. We also believe that supportive, positive, and fun learning environment is key, and we center our therapy around play.
Caregivers will be given resources, home programming, and education, as well as access to counseling. Our hope is that families feel supported and confident in their new skills to be able to apply them outside of the therapy room.