Occupational Therapists use play and a child’s daily activities to build skills related to fine motor, visual motor, motor planning, executive functioning, sensory processing, self-care, play, academics, and social emotional regulation.

Speech Therapists focus on special conditions that may impact a child’s developmental areas like talking, communicating, understanding, and social skills. They assist children in building skills related to speech and articulation, phonology, oral motor, expressive and receptive language, fluency, pragmatics, AAC, play skills, feeding and swallowing.

Therapists help children work toward the strengthening the mouth muscles, increasing tongue movement and improving chewing, biting, drinking, or sucking skills. Other goals commonly include learning to self-feed, decreasing textural aversions, improving nutritional status, supporting physical development, and improving meal-time behaviors.