Occupational Therapy

The “occupation” of a child is to play, learn, socialize, and discover who they are in life. Pediatric occupational therapists (OT) at InGym™ use a multimodal approach to help infants to young adults develop independence through successful engagement in: fine motor and gross motor skills, executive function, sensory motor skills, visual motor skills, and social participation in order to maximize functional performance at home, school, and community environments.

InGym™ occupational therapists (OT) can help with but not limited to:

  • Adaptive equipment
  • Coping skills
  • Executive Function
  • Fine motor: handwriting, cutting, coloring, buttoning, zipping, using feeding utensils
  • Gross motor: crawling, climbing, tumbling, swinging, catching/throwing/kicking a ball, jumping…
  • Instrumental skills: housekeeping chores, medication management, money management, meal preparation….
  • Movement and coordination
  • Muscle tone and strength
  • Oral Motor Skills
  • Self-care skills: feeding, dressing, grooming, oral hygiene, toileting, bathing, sleep hygiene…
  • Sensory motor processing and self-regulation
  • Social interactions and relationships: taking turns, playing with peers, sharing
  • Study habits and routines
  • Time management
  • Visual motor perception and integration such as eye-hand coordination
  • Wheelchair mobility


InGym™ occupational therapists are highly trained to evaluate and treat including but not limited to:

  • Apraxia-Poor motor planning
  • Ataxia-Lack of coordination
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Brachial plexus injury
  • Brain injury
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Congenital limb deficiencies
  • Down Syndrome and other genetic disorders
  • Learning differences (dyslexia, dysgraphia)
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Neurological disorders
  • Sensory Processing Disorder
  • Spina bifida


Evaluations, techniques and modalities practiced by InGym™ occupational therapists include but not limited to:

  • Battelle Developmental Inventory, Third Edition (BDI-3)
  • Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration 6th ed. (BERRY™VMI)
  • Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOTP-2)
  • Canada Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)
  • Clinical Observation of Motor and Postural Skills (COMPS)
  • Developmental Individual Differences and Relationship (DIR)
  • Handwriting Without Tears®
  • Interactive Metronome
  • Irelen® Syndrome Screening
  • Kinesio Taping®
  • Masgutova Neurosensory Reflex Integration MNRI®
  • Multimodal Experiences
  • Myofascial and Cranial Sacral Release
  • Neurodevelopmental Treatment
  • Sensory Integration
  • Sensory Profile
  • Therapeutic Listening®
  • Upper Extremity Splinting