What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy? -
Pediatric occupational therapy helps improve the quality of a child’s life through a balance of therapeutic play, exercise / positioning, self-care, cognitive-behavioral supports, and carefully designed, specialized, or adapted work activities. Principles of health, wellness, and preventative care are utilized to support long term goals, community integration, and self advocacy connections.
Occupational therapists recognize the strengths in every child & family in order to help decrease the impact of disability on daily family or community living.
Occupational Therapy Services:
- Development and enhancement of functional sensory, motor & perceptual processing
- Management of muscle tone, positioning, and community mobility needs
- Increase safety awareness and judgment for community access
- Improvements in balance, strength, coordination for play/leisure/community/vocational skills
- Improved self awareness, advocacy, social resilience
- Increased self regulatory and coping skills
- Tools to increase self esteem and self determination
- Improved body, mind connection
- Understanding of sensory-behavioral connections
- Increased self care and functional independence
- Assistance with adaptive activities, equipment needs and their use
- Assistive technology supports, modifications, needs
The Scope of Our Practice
Your child may benefit from Occupational Therapy if he or she has difficulty with:
- Coordinating eye, hand, body, or mouth movements
- Responding appropriately to environmental or social demands
- Processing and responding to information
- Accepting the introduction of activities typically enjoyed by peers
- Knowing what, when, and how to do tasks
- Performing daily living skills with independence
- Planning or completing ideas, thoughts, actions
- Developing play, social, or leisure skill interests
- Executing movements with control and accuracy
- Developing and maintaining regular routines learned
- Feeding & swallowing or mealtime behaviors
- Handwriting, keyboarding, accessing assistive technology
For More Information Contact:
AOTA.org
VOTA.org
Does my child need occupational therapy?
Bayside Children’s Therapy Network, Inc.
We're located in the 'old Coke building' on Main Street - Gloucester Court House!
6688 Main Street - P.O. Box 130 - Gloucester, Virginia 23061
Call: 804-210-1555 Fax: 804-210-1556
www.baysidechildrenstherapynetwork.com
Meet Our Director and Co-Owner
Lisa Peschel McCann, MA, OTR/L
Pediatric Occupational Therapist
Lisa is dedicated to the efforts of expanding and connecting service delivery models to meet the needs of our rural children. As a clinician she has acquired advanced training and/or certifications in: Feeding/Swallowing Disorders, Breastfeeding, Neonatal Behavioral Assessment, Handwriting Development, Neuro-Developmental Treatment, Sensory Integration and Praxis Test Administration and Interpretation, and Administration and Interpretation of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS).
Clinical Mentoring, Program Development, School Based, Hospital Based, and Community Health programs have fostered Lisa's Professional Growth in New York, Southern California, and New Mexico prior to moving to Mathews Virginia in 2005 with her family.
Lisa is an active member of Kingston Parish and remains active volunteering within her church community, singing, dancing, mentoring, taking yoga, and training and traveling with her Clinic Therapy Dog Cleopatra. Projects that include Clinical Teaching, Program Development and Environmental Design to improve Awareness, Family Life and Child Rights for Best Practice in Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health and Wellness is her interest.
Whitney Wooten, MA, OTR/L
Occupatioal Therapist
Whitney provides services in Mathews County, Gloucester as well as in the Clinic. She is currently serving both the educational and medical service models of practice in our Region in the Public and Private School as well as Clinical setting. Whitney is a Graduate of Radford University and serves as a Clinical Mentor for developing Pediatric Practitioners in the Region through her clinical mentorship of Resident Interns. Whitney resides in Mathews County with her family. We appreciate her enthusiasm, love of her Occupational Practice, and working with all of her students, families, and children that she serves.
