Occupational Therapy Services

The Kioko Center

Our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them.

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Clinical Services

Sensory Processing and Integration

Selg Regulation

At the Kioko Center, our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them. .

Sensory

processing or sensory integration refers to how our body receives, understands, and uses information from the

Self-regulation is our bodies ability to attain, maintain, and change arousal appropriately for a task or situation.

Occupational Therapy Evaluation and Treatment

We offer speech therapy and occupational therapy in our clinic and online. We provide our patients with the latest therapeutic interventions to encourage amazing progress in a fun and family-oriented atmosphere. Our clinical work gives the children and young adults we work with the tools they need to reach their full potential. The Kioko Center our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them.

Sensory Processing and Integration

Sensory processing or sensory integration refers to how our body receives, understands, and uses information from the senses. One component of this process is sensory integration, which includes interpretation, coordination, and organization of sensation. Efficient sensory integration enables us to plan appropriate actions and behavior and learn new skills. Sensory information comes from all senses and may originate from one’s body (balance sense, joint and muscle sense, touch sense) or the environment (sight, sound, temperature, and texture). The two sensory integration components are sensory modulation and sensory discrimination. These components are interrelated and important

Handwriti

ngHandwriting refers to the mechanical parts of the actual act of forming letters, numbers, strokes, lines, or simple/complex figures to demonstrate graph motor skills. Below outlines the mechanical aspects of handwriting.

• Memory: Remembering and writing dictated letters

• Orientation: Orienting or facing letters in the correct direction.

• Placement: placement refers to a child’s ability to place their letters, numbers, words or sentence on a baseline or whether they float his/her letters and numbers well above the bolded 1/8 or 1/16 of an inch margin of error depending on their respective age or grade expectations.

• Size: A sizing error occurs when a letter or number is formed larger than the margin of error, which is 1 grade level below the current.

• Start: A start error is noted when a letter or number is not initiated in the appropriate top-down form.

• Sequence: A sequence error is noted when a letter or number is not constructed in the appropriate order. The above start and orientation errors are automatically sequencing errors as well.

• Control: Control errors occur when a child over-strokes, rounds, gaps, and points letters and numbers in the incorrect location. Control errors may also include when mid-point positioning, as well as