Areas of Expertise:

  • Sensory Processing Skills

    Processing sensory stimulation (internal and external) throughout everyday environments. This is targeted through addressing self regulation; the ability to obtain, maintain and change alertness levels and attention a task or situation.

  • Neuro-Developmental Skills

    Facilitation and handling techniques to develop your baby's motor developmental milestones, including gross motor and fine motor skills. Environmental modification and adaptations to develop your baby's cognitive and social milestones.

  • Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Skills

    These are the underlying skills that help children coordinate and discriminate what we see and apply it to everyday tasks.

    Skills: handwriting/forming letters, reading, cutting on a line, catching a ball, etc.

  • Fine Motor/ Upper Extremity Skills

    Develop skills to improve strength, coordination, and dexterity of the arm and hand through strengthening, targeted tasks, and strategies.

    Skills- difficulty tying laces, manipulating fasteners, using scissors, using cutlery and cups, picking up and manipulating small objects, poor handwriting, two handed tasks.

  • Balance, Coordination, and Motor Planning Skills

    Controlling and modulating a child's body position during a variety of task performance. Addressing these skills improves function effectively across environments and tasks.

  • Self-Care (ADLs) Skills

    Addressing skills and independence in everyday tasks for school and classroom readiness. Self-care skills target tasks such as dressing and hygiene.

  • Brain Injury/Cognitive Rehabilitation

    I am a trained clinician via the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) and have experience in supporting children with executive functioning deficits through many phases of recovery from a brain injury.

  • Constraint Induced Movement Therapy/ Bimanual Therapy for Hemiplegia

    Specialized treatment techniques for children who have weakness and limited use of one arm.

  • Wheelchair Mobility Skills

    I have clinical experience in evaluating, assessing, and recommendation for fit/delivery for children requiring use of manual or power wheelchairs, and other durable medical equipment.

  • Assistive Technology

    I have clinical experiences in integrating assistive technology to children with alternative needs to promote increased participating and to access their environment around them.