The primary goal of occupational therapy for children is to enable people to participate in occupations (activities) that give meaning and purpose to their lives.

Occupational therapy for children helps children to achieve the skills needed to participate in everyday activities and in age appropriate play as Play is the occupation for the child. Occupational Therapy focuses on children achieving independence while enhancing their self-esteem and sense of accomplishment.

Occupational therapy focuses on the development of life skills that enable children to function appropriately within their environment. For children, these activities may include using their hands for play, dressing, feeding, toileting, bathing, following routines and moving around their homes, communities, preschools, daycares, schools etc.

A child who is 3 year old, if unable to do age appropriate activities like:

• unable to catch or kick a ball,
• not able to jump,
• not able to play as his peers.
• not able to eat by himself

Inability to perform these activities affects the ability to play and interact with his peers. Assessment is done to check the gross motor skills, motor planning, fine motor skills, eye hand coordination, ability to focus and pay attention to perform the particular tasks. Therapy sessions are individually tailored to specific needs of the child.

Therapy sessions are individually tailored to specific needs of the child.

• Sensory Processing Skills
• Motor Planning skills
• Fine Motor Skills
• Grasping skills
• Object manipulation
• ADLs (activities of daily living)

1. Feeding
2. Dressing
3. Bathing
4. Toileting
5. Grooming

• Visual Perceptual Skills
• Visual-Motor Skills: coordination of eyes and hands for:

1. Writing
2. Throwing
3. Catching
4. Using both hands together

• Upper Body Strength and Endurance
• Splinting and Positioning
• Common conditions/Diagnosis needed Occupational Therapy:
• Development delay
• Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
• Sensory processing disorders
• Cerebral Palsy
• Down syndrome
• Muscular dystrophies
• Neuromotor conditions
• Brachial plexus injury
• Hand function disorders
• Feeding/ eating disorders

For children with autism, Occupational Therapy is often sensory-based and helps them integrate their sensory systems within the environment. Therapy works on initiating and sustaining purposeful play and interacting with others.

Children with autism may not have major physical disabilities, but many are struggling with specific challenges including:

• Low motor tone (weak muscles)
• Sensory dysfunction (too much or too little response to touch, movement, sound, light, smell, or taste) ,
• Difficulty with motor planning (lack of coordination)
• Lack of imitative skills that help typically developing children learn play skills and skills of daily living
• Lack of social skills that help typically developing children learn how to engage in physical activities in a group setting .

We run extensive group therapy sessions at WE BELIEVE . Group therapy helps children who struggle in social communication skills, poor peer interaction, low self esteem.

Social communication encompasses a wide range of skills such as how to be in a group of people, start or continue a conversation, ways to show you are listening to someone, body orientation, gestures and eye contact.

In group therapy, children practice sharing, taking turns, starting conversations, following group instructions and following rules of a game. They form friendships, learns to play with peers and develop emotional intelligence.

Groups are formed as per the age and skill set of the children.

Discovering the true potential of professional counseling for children with developmental disabilities: Counselling from WE BELIEVE to navigate through the challenge of delayed child development. Raising a child with developmental delays can be one of the most rewarding yet taxing things.

While parents find it extremely challenging to define clear, distinguishable parameters between their special child and other children, children also find it challenging to adjust to their developmental problems and societal and family pressures. In such times of hardship, counseling can be remarkably beneficial to bear the trauma and make the difficult

Consultation with Experts:

Every parent has superpowers, but when you have a child with developmental disabilities in your home, professional help is the best way to cope with the challenges of developmental delays. Despite what you are doing to care for your child, early intervention from the experts can play a substantial role in the successful recovery of your child from the disability symptoms. Starting from diagnosis to treatment, you need to have the words from a qualified professional by your side to back the procedures.

This is when WE BELIEVE come to the rescue with expert consultation. Whether your child is in the early stage of childhood development disorders, or it’s been late, we can always be there to improve your child’s sensory and motor abilities. The ultimate aim of our professionals at Dew Drops is to inspire and guide every child to reach to their best potential. The therapies and assessments are based on enhancing functional as well as intellectual attributes, so the results are retained for long- term. Contact us for any further queries regarding your specially-abled child, and we would be more than happy to be a part of your journey.

We strongly believe in the power of early Intervention. The early years are crucial of a child’s life as in those years the physical, social, language and cognitive development of the child takes place.

If child shows signs of development delay or have a specific health condition that will probably lead to a delay, Child would need Early intervention services to facilitate the process of development.

Early stimulation and early intervention can help children with delays catch up in their development. Depending on the delays child may need the therapies as per specific needs of the child.

Therapies offered in Early Intervention:

• Occupational Therapy
• Sensory Integration therapy
• physical therapy
• Speech, language and communication therapy
• Group therapy
• Special education
• Oral placement therapy (OPT) and feeding sessions
• Parent education and Parenting sessions

Special education services are designed to address each student’s individual differences and needs to improve cognitive and academic skills.

We at WE BELIEVE, provide remedial services for children with academic issues. In one-to-one sessions, the special education teacher has the opportunity to provide more intense support to help develop the child’s personal-social, adaptive, and cognitive skills.

Educational plans are developed based on evaluation results and strategies and techniques are developed to meet the goals and objectives. Teachers also design and implement behavior modification programs.

• Special education services can be given to children with:
• Cerebral Palsy
• Autism
• ADHD.
• Down Syndrome
• Dyslexia
• Learning difficulties

The goal of Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) sessions is to identify and treat children who present with difficulties in the area of speech, language and communication.

Speech and language therapist evaluates the specific deficits in the speech production, language and communication delay, helps children having difficulty in articulation, sound production and feeding issues.
Language and communication therapy programs helps children to develop pre linguistic skills, receptive and expressive language.

Speech/language therapy services are designed to assist in the development of children’s verbal and non-verbal communication skills, including the following:

Understanding and using language – words, sentences, telling stories.

• Social uses of communication – greeting people, playing with peers, holding a conversation etc.
• Clarity of speech, including the ability to produce and combine the speech sounds of the child’s language; use of the voice.
• Facial expression, eye contact, body language and gesture
• Fluency
• Pre-feeding and feeding skills