Occupational Therapy

What exactly is Occupational Therapy? We like to think of it as a magical therapy that helps individuals work on fine motor, gross motor, and visual motor skills. Occupational Therapy helps a child develop essential skills for everyday living, including self-care skills, and basic functional skills to the best of their unique ability. We work on a wide array of skills through play-based therapy to help treat patients with every diagnosis. Our Occupational Therapists are proud members of the American Occupational Therapy Association.

How can you tell if OT might be a good fit for your child? 

Check out our gross motor, fine motor, and visual motor skills milestones charts below. Please keep in mind that every child develops at their own pace and these milestones are guidelines to determine what type of therapeutic support your child may need. We are here to help!

Gross Motor Skills

0 MONTHS

  • Turns head side to side in prone position
  • Bobs head but stays erect in upright position
  • Kicks feet alternately in supine position
  • Bears small fraction of weight on feet in upright position
  • Props on extended arms
  • Rolls to supine from prone position

6 MONTHS

  • Sits with trunk erect in a chair
  • Reaches in prone position
  • Assumes quadruped in prone position
  • Sits unsupported for 30 seconds
  • Rolls to prone position from supine position
  • Crawls

12 MONTHS

  • Walks by him/herself
  • Creeps up stairs
  • Throws a ball with some cast
  • Squats to play
  • Walks backwards
  • Runs stiffly
  • Climbs into an adult-sized chair
  • Walks down stairs with hand-held assistance

24 MONTHS

  • Walks up and down stairs non-reciprocally
  • Steps onto a balance beam
  • Kicks a ball
  • Jumps down from a low step with feet together
  • Walks on tiptoes
  • Rotates when coming to stand from a supine position

36 MONTHS

  • Stand on one foot without support for 3-5 seconds
  • Jumps off the floor with both feet without support
  • Walks up stairs with alternating feet
  • Jumps forward with feet together
  • Rides a tricycle
  • Catches a large ball with arms extended
  • Walks on tiptoes greater than 8 feet

48 MONTHS

  • Stands on one foot for 3-6 seconds
  • Throws a ball with good aim 5-10 feet
  • Gallops
  • Completes a somersault
  • Catches a tennis ball with two hands from 5 feet

60 MONTHS

  • Walks down stairs with alternating feet
  • Hops on one foot
  • Stands on one foot for 8 seconds
  • Skips with alternating feet
  • Walks forward on a balance beam without falling off >6 steps
  • Kicks a ball into the air

 

Fine Motor Skills/Visual Motor Skills

0 Months

  • Follows a moving object horizontally and vertically
  • Reaches for a dangling object
  • Reaches for a cube and attains it
  • Transfers toys from hand to hand

6 MONTHS

  • Pulls a peg out of a pegboard
  • Rakes a raisin and attains it
  • Pokes with index finger
  • Drops an object with voluntary release
  • Holds a crayon adaptively

12 MONTHS

  • Exhibits a refined pincer grasp
  • Turns pages of a cardboard book
  • Place pegs in a pegboard
  • Builds a 2-3 cube tower
  • Scribbles spontaneously
  • Begins to imitate crayon strokes such as a vertical and horizontal line
  • Holds a crayon with his/her fingers

24 MONTHS

  • String several large beads
  • Imitates a horizontal and vertical line
  • Aligns blocks to make a train, no smokestack
  • Unscrew a jar
  • Scribbles in a circular manner

36 MONTHS

  • Imitates a cross and circle (drawing in shaving cream or sand is always fun!)
  • Builds a 9-cube tower
  • Demonstrates preferred hand use
  • Strings 1/2″ beads independently
  • Recognizes primary colors
  • Identifies some body parts
  • Completes 2-piece rotated picture
  • Places pegs into a pegboard
  • Holds pencil with fingers
  • Unscrews/screws objects
  • Completes 8-piece form board

48 MONTHS

  • Begins to exhibit an adult 3-finger pencil grasp ( place a penny in a child’s palm so that they have to use their 4th and 5th digit while the other three fingers hold the pencil or crayon)
  • Draws a person with 3 recognizable parts
  • Imitates simple block designs
  • Cuts on straight, curved, and crooked lines
  • Names four basic shapes and colors
  • Completes a 3-5-shape puzzle
  • Imitates drawing a square
  • Completes simple mazes
  • Connects dots
  • Laces a lacing card

60 MONTHS

  • Prints numerals one to five, letters, and simple words
  • Ties a knot
  • Draws a person with 5 parts
  • Copies a triangle from a picture
  • Cuts out a picture with scissors
  • Completes 12-15 piece puzzle

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