Is Occupational Therapy Right For Your Child?

If your child is struggling with home, school or community participation, they may benefit from Occupational Therapy services.

For children who are in school, we know that standardized education programs don’t always match every child’s variable learning style. The Learning Owl provides specifically tailored services for your child and family, including educational skill building, advocacy, accommodation recommendations, and adaptive strategies.

Services are personalized for each child, including those who are diagnosed with, suspected to have, or experiencing challenges related to:

  • ADHD

  • Anxiety

  • Autism

  • Dysgraphia

  • Executive Function

  • Interoception

  • PDA

  • Self-Regulation

  • Sensory Processing Differences

  • Trauma

Neurodiversity Affirming practices are rooted in understanding and embracing differences in lived experiences, including information interpretation, processing, and learning variations. Within this approach we seek to understand the unique strengths and needs of each child, and nurture further development with skill building from the perspective of respecting and embracing the child’s authentic self.

Neurodiversity Affirming Approach

Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy Includes:

  • Honoring and accommodating all communication styles

  • Honoring and accommodating individual sensory needs

  • Recognizing and supporting needs for processing and response time

  • Validating emotional and neurophysiological experiences

  • Supporting safe self-regulation skills, including stimming

  • Supporting development of self-advocacy skills

  • Reframing expectations

  • Validating differences

  • Respecting autonomy

Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy Does Not Include:

  • Changing a child to appear neurotypical or “normal” 

  • Promoting masking, loss of autonomy, or loss of personal agency

  • Dismissing or minimizing experiences

  • Eliminating stimming behaviors

  • Behavioral management

  • Rewards and punishment

  • “Normative” standards or age comparisons