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ALLS Occupational Therapists are all nationally licensed and have completed an accredited College or University program. Our highly trained staff provides consultation, screening, evaluation and treatment using an eclectic approach which combines sensory integration play and neurodevelopmental theory in home, school and clinic settings.
Both standardized testing and clinical observations are used during our evaluations. Results of these evaluations are shared in parent conferences and Individual Education Program (IEP)
meetings.
Personalized home programs and consultations with school staff are included in our evaluations. We assess and treat children with a variety of diagnosis and areas of need including difficulties with:
- fine and gross motor skills
- sensory integration
- self modulation
- visual perceptual
- visual motor skills
- self help
- handwriting
Our clients ages range from birth to early adulthood.
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Other Programs:
School Based Occupational Therapy Services
Sensory Integration Services
School Based Occupational Therapy Services
ALLS endorses the new SELPA suggested delivery model for school based OT services, based on the guidelines of Federal legislation, CA legislation, and the AOTA.
ALLS has designed a unique model to implement educationally based OT services. This model is sensitive to budget constraints without compromising the effectiveness of servicing the rapidly growing population of individuals being referred for Occupational Therapy services.
Our model emphasizes an OT curriculum based on sensory motor development and encompasses but are not limited to:
- Integrating Occupational Therapists in special day classes
- Implementing a pre-referral process
- Training educators in various levels of OT service delivery
- Reaching OT goals through training ancillary personnel to implement modifications and strategies throughout all educational settings
- Providing unique language motor groups to reach both functional speech and occupational therapy goals
- Reducing “pull out” therapy through groups during recess, before and after school
- Providing immediate and appropriate consultation on challenging issues in the classroom through SST meeting inclusion
- Guiding the SST members and parents in writing appropriate SELPA service plans to accommodate the new OT service delivery model
- Creating appropriate sensory motor environments
- Implementing preschool/kindergarten programs through teacher training and curriculum based classroom groups to address sensory motor development and reduce referrals for special ed services in elementary years
We are committed to enable school districts to provide the necessary and ethical special ed services within their financial budgets. Our ability to customize this model to fit any school district’s needs and limitations allows for a greater opportunity for success.
Sensory Integration Services - FAQ's
Do you provide Sensory Integration services?
Our Licensed Occupational Therapists have intensive and advanced training and certifications in the evaluation and treatment of Sensory Integrative Dysfunction in children and other individuals.
Where would one go for Sensory Integration treatment?
Our outpatient clinic is furnished with a wide variety of state of the art equipment used in sensory integrative based therapy.
In addition to providing direct individual therapy in our clinic, our experienced therapists also consult and collaborate with teachers and parents to implement sensory integration based strategies and/or treatment in classrooms and home environments.
What is Sensory Integration?
Sensory Integration is the brain’s ability to recognize, organize and interpret all information we receive from the world around us through our sensory systems. Our senses are not just involved with taste, smell, sight and sound, but our nervous system also sense touch, movement, body position and the pull of gravity. Sensory integration provides a crucial foundation for later, more complex learning and behavior. For most of us, effective sensory integration occurs automatically, unconsciously, without effort, but for some of us, this is an inefficient process, requires extreme effort and attention with no guarantee of accuracy. When this occurs, it is very difficult to attain goals we strive for in our daily lives.
What are some signs of Sensory Integration
Dysfunction?
- Being overly sensitive to touch, movement, sights, or sounds
- Being under reactive to touch, movement, sights, or sounds
- Being easily distractible and/or finding it difficult to attend to a task
- Having social and/or emotional problems
- Having an activity level that is unusually high or unusually low
- Appearance of physical clumsiness or apparent carelessness
- Being impulsive, lacking in self control
- Having difficulty making transitions from one situation to another
- Being unable to unwind or calm self
- Having a poor self concept
- Having delays in speech, language, or motor skills
- Demonstrating delays in academic achievement
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