Occupational Therapy Program begins with a comprehensive assessment of the child in different areas, namely, Oral motor functions, General Movements, Postures, Gait, Involuntary movements, Hand functions, Laterality, In hand manipulation, Sensory integrative functions, Socio-emotional and play behaviour, Range of Motion, Eye-hand coordination, Cognition, Problem solving, Motor planning skills, Attention, Perception, and Memory.

The detailed assessment reveals details about the child’s strength and limitation areas which enable us to develop an effective intervention plan. Due to the comprehensive assessment, parents can also easily follow the intervention plan and work with the child effectively at home.

Occupational Therapy Program provides a range of interventions covering young children to older youth in a one-on-one setting. The 4 major areas of intervention that we address are: Early Intervention, perceptual and motor therapy, sensory integration therapy, cognitive development therapy; details of each are below.

Children with Perceptual and/or motor deficits may have difficulty with smooth walking, jumping, stair climbing, running, solving mazes, solving puzzles, remembering sight words, finding information on a page, legibility of handwriting, writing letters/numbers, copying skills, etc.

In order to help the child overcome deficiencies in above areas, Occupational Therapists at Learning Ladder utilize strategies such as gross body movements, fine movements, walking on uneven surface, balancing, stair climbing, board copying skills, etc. At Learning Ladder we offer a wide range of standardized and self-designed equipment to help the children develop coordinated movements.

Many children exhibit behaviours such as hitting head, hitting walls, obsessively smelling objects, touching other people or asking for hugs, covering ears, making peculiar sounds, showing aggression or excessive crying, etc. These are usually due to issues involving processing or overload of the primary sensory inputs such as touch, smell, see, hear and taste. Two other sensory areas are considered important by professionals: propioception (body's ability to perceive its own position in space) and vestibular sense (sense of balance or feeling dizzy when eyes closed).

Challenges arise when there is a disconnect between signals coming from different senses, or sometimes an overload of certain signals, the so-called sensory dysfunction.

We at Learning Ladder carefully assess the child's challenges and develop an individualized sensory integration plan. Using our well-equipped and structures environment, we expose the child to variety of controlled sensory stimulation. Our advanced therapy procedures help a child to gradually learn to cope and self-control these sensory issues.

We also devise a home based plan, and explain strategies and techniques that parents can follow in helping the child with sensory issues, overloads, and events.

A child's cognitive capacity govern the mental ability of acquiring knowledge and conceptual understanding of concepts, ideas, and appropriate actions through thinking, prior experience, and the use of senses. Children who do not exhibit an age-appropriate learning or ability to deal with the environment benefit from cognitive development therapy.

We at Learning Ladder provide one-to-one sessions in a structured environment that focuses on improving different aspects of cognitive abilities such as memory, attention, thinking, planning, focusing, problem solving and decision making. We use variety of equipments and techniques such as smart board-based games, puzzles, board games, matching cards or shapes, following increasingly complex instructions, word search games, answering questions about stories, etc. We challenge the child to exercise their brain and gradually increase the complexity of the tasks or activities.