Occupational therapy for children and their families as they navigate their best life together.

So what is Occupational Therapy?

OT is a type of health intervention that helps to solve problems that interfere with a person’s ability to do the things that are important to them.

For children this can mean that they are  experiencing struggles with:

  • Activities of daily living- These involve daily life activities like following routines, sleep, eating, dressing, toileting.
  • Fine motor skills- These  involve the small muscles of the body that enable such activities as writing, grasping small objects, and fastening clothing.
  • Gross motor- These involve the large muscles of the body that enable us to do whole-body movements from running to raking leaves. 
  • Executive Functioning skills-  These involve the brain and how it makes connections that contribute to our ability to attend, focus, complete tasks, stay organized, manage time.
  • Emotional Regulation- This involves our ability to manage stress and respond to the situations that we encounter everyday. We all need to feel safe and connected and move through our emotions in healthy ways.
  • Sensory processing-  This involves the way our brain receives, organizes and responds to sensory input from all around us. We all need to develop our own way of receiving and responding to the world around us in a meaningful ways.

At Spring OT we work with children from birth to 18 years old and their families to explore and navigate through daily life.
We take a strengths based approach looking first at what your child can do, their interests and their unique needs.

We provide In-Home and Virtual services as we feel it is important to work with children and their families in their natural and typical environment, where they feel the most safe and comfortable

We can assess their skills using both formal testing and informal observations and then determine a specific and unique intervention plan. 

Intervention is then based on goals and priorities that you have for your child and family. Through play and various activities we will work with you and your child to develop skills and solutions that solve your problems and achieve your goals.

What Spring OT provides

For Children
  • Meaningful and strength based solutions to promote success
  • Individualized therapy programs
  • Skill development through play and exploration
  • Functional strategies for daily routines
For Parents
  • Consultation and coaching to promote your child’s success.
  • home based strategies that focus on increase in function in your daily life.
  • Support with ‘re’-organizing the home environment
  • support with activities outside of the home, nature, community, recreation.
  • Advise on aids to daily living, adaptive equipment, adaptive recreation.
For Agencies
  • Professionally prepared assessments
  • Collaborative communication in team based approach
  • Make adaptive equipment recommendations
  • Provisions of functional strategies

From the Springboard

A message from the new Owners

Hello Spring Clients families and friends!!   Here’s to a New Year. We send this with glad tidings in our hearts and very exciting news. Spring Occupational Therapy is re-launching under new ownership. We are ready to serve children, families and our community once again.    So what has happened with Spring OT over the last 18 months?? Firstly, Trish Williams has taken this opportunity to expand her consulting business and was looking for an OT who shared the same values and experience to take over and she thought of me!  My name is Nicole MacLean and I worked with Trish years ago and we kept in touch. I am […]

Using Mindfulness for Challenging Behaviours

For the past 2 years, I’ve done respite with a phenomenal kid (let’s call her Ella). While continuously striking me with her ability to radiate joy and compassion, Ella had a tough time transitioning between activities, sharing, and keeping her hands off of other kids during group play. Early this summer, Ella and I were headed off to camp! Working with her family and camp staff (and using some good ole’ trial and error) we came up with great strategies for success, like making Ella the line leader to avoid pushing or being pushed, teaching other kids in her group the sign language she used, making a photo schedule of […]

Gift Ideas to Promote Language Development – School Aged Children

Gift Ideas to Promote Language Development – School Aged Children

  As a Speech Language Pathologist, I am often asked for gift ideas around the holidays.  While toys cannot teach communication, there are toys parents can use to engage their children so learning can happen.  In general, the less a toy does the better, because it allows you to do more with it.  Kids with speech and language delays really benefit from finding different ways to work on the speech and language goals at home and finding a toy that can be used to target some goals is a real bonus!   Check out my previous guides for ages 0-3 and school preschool aged kids  Here are some of my all-time […]

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