Occupational Therapy Services
Occupational Therapy is offered to assist children, adults, parents, and caregivers with encouraging independence in everyday skills.
The main occupations of a child are play, school, and learning daily living skills. A pediatric occupational therapy session may include learning life skills, creating and maintaining relationships with others, sensory integration, learning coping strategies, adapting to their environment, and much more. We work with those who have developmental delays, sensory and processing deficits, behavioral/ regulation difficulties, and/or visual perceptual/motor problems. We have specialized training for those children who need help with handwriting skills. The SpOT Clinic has a sensory gym to assist in regulating sensory and processing deficits.
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Services are also provided to adults after traumatic and non-traumatic brain injuries, head and neck cancer, strokes, Parkinson's Disease, etc. to improve the patient's ability to perform activities of daily living. Activities of daily living include bathing, grooming/hygiene, dressing, eating and food preparation, functional mobility/safety, and problem solving. The SpOT Clinic in Owen's Crossroads has an ADL Suite to learn activities of daily living and a kitchen for clients to plan and prepare food as a part of their treatment.

What the SpOT Clinic offers
Sensory Integration
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Hypersensitivity/hyposensitivity
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Self-regulation with the aid of sensory integration
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Body Awareness
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Motor Planning
Motor Skill Development
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Coordination among both sides of the body
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Fine motor manipulation and precision
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Muscle Tone
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Balance
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Endurance
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Strength and Range of Motion
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Pre-Handwriting and Handwriting Skills
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Developing correct grasp
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Correct letter and shape formation
Life and Self-Care Skills/Activities of Daily Living

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Dressing - Use of our ADL Suite
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Grooming/Bathing - Use of our handicap accessible bathroom with shower
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Hygiene - Use of our ADL Suite and Handicap accessible bathroom with shower
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Eating and Food Preparation - use of our kitchen for client use
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Functional Mobility/Safety
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Problem Solving
Visual Perception and Visual Motor Skills

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Visual scanning
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Figure ground
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Visual motor control
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Visual discrimination
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Visual memory
Social Skills
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Emotional/Self-Regulation - Behavioral skills
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Coping skills
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Spontaneous play
We offer treatment for the following diagnoses + more:
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birth injuries or birth defects
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sensory processing disorders
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traumatic injuries (brain)
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learning delays
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behavioral problems
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broken bones or other orthopedic injuries
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developmental delays
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spina bifida
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cerebral palsy, and other chronic illnesses
To schedule an evaluation:
Please contact The SpOT Clinic at 256-517-9277 to schedule an occupational therapy evaluation. A physician's referral/prescription is required prior to scheduling. Evaluations may be conducted over one to two days depending on your child’s needs. We want to ensure that each child is able to show us their current skill level to the best of their abilities. Depending on your child, a combination of age-level standardized assessments, clinical observations, as well as parent questionnaires and interviews will be used to obtain the most appropriate measures of his/her current level of functioning. If it is determined that your child would benefit from alternative or additional services, we work with each family to ensure that appropriate referrals are made. Please see the parent information tab to download patient forms.