Occupational Therapy

Monkey Mouths currently provides pediatric occupational therapy in the following areas:

Self-Care Skills: Difficulty with feeding, bathing, dressing and grooming

Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: Difficulty with daytime and/or nighttime bowel and/or bladder continence (leaking stool or urine), bed wetting, pain when using the restroom and constipation

Sensory Integration Disorders: Oversensitivity or undersensitivity to sounds, smells, sights, touch, movement, taste and difficulty with the sense of body awareness

Fine Motor Skills Challenges: Difficulty with writing skills, buttons/snaps, use of utensils & scissors and grasping or picking up small objects

Problems with Motor Coordination/Apraxia: Difficulty getting the body to “do” what the brain tells it; may be awkward, seemingly careless, or accident-prone, may have difficulties with activities such as standing on one foot, 2 handed activities, or sitting to tie shoelaces; may be hesitant or nervous to try new tasks or activities

Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Dysfunction: Difficulty coordinating their eyes and hands to work together to draw and write; may have difficulty with daily tasks like copying shapes, tracing, handwriting, coloring, lining up math problems and catching a ball