Helping little hands, brains, and bodies grow.
Occupational therapy for babies, toddlers, and children, supporting developmental, feeding, and sensory-motor growth through every stage of early childhood.
Why families choose this service
Sensory processing and regulation
Support for sensitivity to, or high drive for, touch, movement, and sound, plus functional vision and emotional regulation.
Motor skills, posture, and coordination
Gross and fine motor skills, body and spatial awareness, balance, strength, and endurance for movement and tabletop tasks.
Play and participation
Play skills, multi-step tasks, cooperative play, and learning to manage feelings, frustration, and transitions.
About this service
At The New Years, our pediatric occupational therapists support your child’s developmental, feeding, and sensory-motor growth through every stage of early childhood.
Our OTs work with children to develop the foundational skills needed for movement, play, feeding, and daily routines. Intervention is child-led, play-based, and individualized to your child’s unique needs, strengths, and pace. Our approaches are evidence-based, trauma-informed, and guided by your family’s rhythms and routines.
Some examples of intervention approaches we use include Ayres Sensory Integration (ASI), Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT), the M.O.R.E. (Motor-Oral-Respiration-Eyes) Framework, the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding, the FOCUS Program for Mealtime Success, the Get Permissions Approach, the Safe and Sound Protocol, and DIRFloortime.
Our OTs can help with
- Gross motor skills: rolling, crawling, sitting, climbing, balance, and coordination
- Fine motor skills: grasp, hand strength, writing and pre-writing, and utensil use
- Sensory processing and regulation across touch, movement, and sound
- Posture, strength, and endurance for movement and for tabletop tasks
- Body awareness and spatial awareness
- Balance and coordination, including clumsiness and frequent falling
- Play and social participation, multi-step tasks, and cooperative play
- Emotional regulation: managing feelings, frustration tolerance, and transitions
The journey starts with an evaluation to understand your child’s and family’s strengths and needs. From there, we meet to discuss the results and create an individualized plan that integrates play-based, child-led therapy, parent education, and home strategies. We work closely with your caregivers and other providers so progress feels supported in daily life. Let’s begin together.