At Bona Vista, we utilize occupational therapy to help children learn self-care, fine motor skills, reading skills, increase trunk strength, and provide feeding intervention.
Children with the following diagnosis may benefit:
- Prematurity
- Attention deficit disorder
- Failure to thrive
- Upper extremity orthopedic injuries
- Cerebral palsy
- Brachial plexus injury
- Spina bifida
- Infant stroke
- Autism/Pervasive developmental delay (PDD)
- Head injury
- General developmental delay
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Down syndrome
- Children in need of an evaluation due to difficulties in school with recommendations to the school and family
Through occupational therapy:
- Caretakers can understand why a child isn’t eating
- Infants receive help transitioning to the next stage of feeding development (i.e., sucking on a bottle to baby foods to table foods)
In addition, children:
- Learn to process information and function at a level appropriate with their peers
- Improve eye-hand coordination and object manipulation
- Enhance pre-writing/drawing skills
- Increase upper extremity and trunk strength to enable a child to sit up, crawl, walk, etc.Improve play skills
For additional information call 765-454-5340.