Pediatric Occupational Therapy
The Children’s Hospital of Georgia provides outpatient rehabilitation programs and rehabilitative therapy during acute inpatient hospital admissions delivered by licensed occupational therapists.
Pediatric Occupational Therapy
The Children’s Hospital of Georgia provides outpatient rehabilitation programs and rehabilitative therapy during acute inpatient hospital admissions delivered by licensed occupational therapists.
Our Approach
Occupational therapy (OT) helps patients improve the skill sets they need to perform daily tasks. These include fine-motor skills, oral-motor skills, perceptual and sensory processing, and neuromusculoskeletal functioning. Our Pediatric Occupational Therapy Program works with each child and family to develop an individualized program that meets their specific rehabilitation needs.
Goals of outpatient occupational therapy
Occupational therapists provide customized outpatient rehabilitation services to patients from newborns to young adults. Our goal is to help improve:
- Ability to perform activities
for day-to-day living. - Cognition
- Coordination
- Functional mobility
- Movement
- Range of motion
- Social skills
- Strength
- Sensory processing
- Visual perception
