Occupational Therapy with Strong Roots:
Growing your Child’s Body and Brain through PLAY!
What does OT with Strong Roots look like?
Occupational therapists support the ability to complete "what matters" to each person. For a child, these occupations include play, learning, accomplishing self-care skills and more. When a child struggles to find success in these activities, OT can help!
Skill areas we may address include
fine, visual, and gross motor coordination
sensory processing and self-regulation skills (focus, emotional regulation)
primitive reflex integration.
All sessions are designed to be joyful, play-based, and engaging for child and caregiver while providing research-based interventions to achieve progress together.
Who can benefit? We are experienced serving children with autism, ADHD, developmental trauma, learning challenges, sensory processing needs, fine or visual motor delays, handwriting challenges and more. In addition, all children can participate in and benefit from enrichment offerings.
Our Core Principles for Therapy
Personalized Collaboration
Our approach to therapy is family-centered, incorporating the strengths of the child and family, and collaborating with the caregiver to empower their participation in the process.
We know parenting children with vulnerable nervous systems can feel lonely and fraught with questions. Our therapist provides uniquely personalized supports including quick response times for your concerns. We are dedicated to maintaining small caseload sizes to ensure that you never feel like “a number” as we team in the therapy journey.
Mobile Therapy
As a mobile or concierge therapy practice, we offer the opportunity to work with clients and their caregivers in the environments that are most relevant for their daily lives -- home or community -- to improve carry-over of skills addressed during sessions.
Individual sessions can be offered in your home (Perrysburg only) or at our local community partner location or via teletherapy, while group sessions occur in a variety of community locations. Strong Roots can also partner with private schools or preschools to provide occupational therapy supports where needed, upon approval from the school.
Identifying “Root Causes”
Our therapist uses a "big picture" lens to consider root causes for concerns. These underlying core skills are the foundation layer (think base of a pyramid) for all other skills to balance on and build upon. For example, caregivers or teachers may observe an inability to sit still, focus on the task, and keep hands to self or difficulty with handwriting. We reframe these observations, offering hope and support through identifying and addressing a variety of sensory, motor, and other neurodevelopmental skill areas with room for growth.
How can OT services centered on play benefit my child?
Play offers a connecting way to enter a child’s world and guide him/her toward stronger function. OTs use play as a motivating intervention approach, one which research shows offers numerous benefits for child development, from motor and sensory skills to self-regulation improvements. Through play, we connect the skills we are practicing with real-life examples, helping children thrive as they grow.
During OT sessions, we play within a framework of consideration of ways to adjust each activity to be supportive of the child’s areas of strength and need, nudging the presentation, materials or interaction style to create a “just-right challenge” which can stimulate the needed growth toward the treatment goals.
Ways to Connect with Strong Roots:
Book a Discovery Call, Signup for Groups, or complete the contact form
Get to know our therapist and ask your questions by scheduling a complimentary 15-20 minute Discovery call which you can book from our Landing Page Scheduler. Please select Book an Appointment at the link. From there, we can schedule next steps for pursuing the therapy options you desire.
Alternatively, you may choose to join Enrichment groups which are offered in partnership with the 577 Foundation (Preschool Move, Play, and Grow themed groups) and Leap Homeschool Co-op (elementary group). Please contact us for more information on registration.
Contact Us
One more option to connect with us — complete the form and we will reach out to you! We look forward to hearing from you. You may also request a Discovery Call through this form if you prefer.
Please either leave your phone number in the message box here for return contact by phone or save our email address (mary@strongrootskids.com) in your “safe list” to ensure your receive our reply.
