A Sensory Integration clinic offering occupational therapy services to Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton
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A Sensory Integration clinic offering occupational therapy services to Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton
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We offer children a safe place to work on foundational skills important to overall development. Our clinic uses swings, suspended obstacle courses and a climbing wall to address sensory processing, fine and gross motor skills and spatial development. Suspended equipment is important when treating children to allow them to use all of their senses to learn and grow.
Occupational Therapy can address a full spectrum of needs. From fine motor development to improving transitions to bilateral coordination to tolerating sensations on the skin, we can improve you and your child's quality of life and access to their interests and education. Occupational therapy can assist in decreasing tantrums, improving flexible thinking, improve engagement and language and improve overall focus and attention.
Sensory integration is the brain's ability to sort, filter and organize sensory inputs coming from our bodies and environment. This ability is a crucial foundation to higher level skills such as language, attention, social skills, academics and handwriting. Without adequate sensory processing, these higher level skills are more difficult to attain. Occupational therapy can change children's nervous systems for improved processing of sensory information.
These are some common traits of a Sensory Processing Disorder. One or more of these characteristics could mean your child may be having difficulty processing sensory information:
Occupational therapy can assist your child in the following areas:
At infancy and early childhood, development of the reflexes must be completed and matured in order for the person to function further within physical, emotional and cognitive development. Retained or poorly developed reflex patterns interfere negatively in all aspects of our brain functioning including executive functions of the cortex. Retained reflexes inhibit normal development and cause serious deficiencies in neurodevelopment.
Kelly Clarke, BsOT has been working in the pediatric field since she graduated from The Ohio State University in 2001. She moved to Squamish in 2016 from San Francisco, where she was Co-Director and Senior Therapist at a private, sensory integration-based pediatric clinic. Prior to working in San Francisco, Kelly ran her own home-based practice in Scottsdale, Arizona. Kelly’s specialty lies in treating children holistically, with an emphasis on assisting children in self-regulation, sensory processing and motor skills. Kelly believes in strengthening a child’s foundation of sensory processing and reflex integration to impact higher level skills of writing and socialization. She treats children of all ages and abilities and works closely with their caregivers to maximize their learning and development. Kelly’s continuing education includes Sensory Integration, Masgutova Reflex Integration and Tactile Integration, Zones of Regulation, DIR Floortime, Handwriting Without Tears, Social Thinking, Zones of Regulation, Therapeutic Listening and Visual-Spatial Problem Solving.
Please contact us directly with any questions, comments, or scheduling inquiries you may have. We provide occupational therapy in Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton
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V8B 0N7, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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