FAQ´s

Children may benefit from pediatric occupational and/or physical therapy for:

• Self-care skills including feeding, dressing, and grooming
• Hand strengthening and coordination skills required for activities such as cutting with scissors, coloring, and writing, buttoning, using feeding utensils, etc.
• Sensory-motor processing and integration
• Visual motor and handwriting skills
• Behavior and self-regulation
• Communication skills
• Balance and coordination
• Gross motor development

• Attention
• self regulation
• socialization
• making eye contact
• sensory integration
• aversion to textures such as soap, glue, sticky or slimy foods, tooth brush, etc
• aversion to physical contact
• motor planning
• eye-hand coordination
• writing
• feeding
• dressing independently
• identify and name shapes and colors
• Poor academic performance
• Identify and point body parts (eyes, nose, ears)
• Bilateral coordination (riding a tricycle, climbing monkey bars, stabilizing papaer with one hand while coloring with the other)

2-3 Months

• Lifts head 45 degrees while in prone (lying on tummy)
• Opens and closes hands
• Follows a toy with eyes from side to side
• Brings hands together toward middle of body
• Attempts to reach for toy
• Grasps a small toy placed in hand
• Breastfeeds or drinks from a bottle without choking, coughing or gagging

4-6 Months

• Rolls belly to back (both to right and left sides)
• Hits at dangling toys with hands
• Lifts head to 90 degrees while in prone (lying on tummy)
• Raises entire chest when on stomach and bears weight on hands
• Rolls back to belly (both to right and left sides)

6 Months

• Begins to sit using hands for support
• Transfers toys from hand to hand
• Reaches with increased control for a toy
• Shakes and bangs toys
• Eats small amounts of pureed baby food

7-9 Months

• Sustained sitting without using their arms for support
• Crawls on hands and knees with stomach off the floor (9 months)
• Feeds self finger foods (8 months+)
• Moves into sitting position independently
• Eats mashed table food

9 Months

• Sits well to play
• Imitates simple play such as “peek a boo”
• Pulls self up to stand using furniture

1 Year

• Pulls off socks and shoes
• Cooperates with dressing (helps to pull off clothing; extends arms and legs to assist with dressing)
• Scribbles on paper
• Stands alone
• Walking (1-2 steps alone)
• Uses thumb and pointer finger to pick up small objects

15 Months

• Eats a variety of soft, chopped table food
• Drinks from a sippy cup independently
• Stacks 2 blocks
• Walks well with infrequent falls
• Squats to pick up an object and stands up again without falling

1-2 Years

• Throws/kicks balls
• Eats a variety of solid foods

2 Years

• Snips with scissors
• Imitates horizontal, vertical lines and circular marks
• Removes elastic waist pants
• Builds at least a 6 block tower
• Pushes, pulls or carries toys while walking (18 months)

2-3 Years

• Pedals a tricycle
• Catches a large ball thrown gently from very close
• Runs well without falling (2.5 years)
• Drinks from an open cup

3 Years

• Cuts straight lines
• Copies vertical, horizontal lines and circles
• Buttons large buttons
• Throws tennis ball 5-7 feet overhand with one hand
• Catches large ball thrown from 5 feet away

3-4 Years

• Static tripod grasp (held with thumb, index and middle fingers while hand moves as a unit)

4 Years

• Cuts out a circle
• Zips jacket
• Copies intersecting lines, diagonal lines, simple shapes, some letters and numbers
• Balances on one foot for 10 seconds or longer

5 Years

•  Prints name from memory
•  Colors within the lines
•  Draws a person with at least 6 or more different parts
•  Cuts out a square

5-6 Years

• Dynamic tripod grasp (held with thumb, index and middle fingers with ring and pinky curled into palm; movement of writing utensil comes from the fingertips)
• Throws at a target 5 feet away and hits target fairly consistently

6 Years

• Copies letters and numbers
• Skips independently
• Rides a bicycle independently

• Medicaid
• Children Medical Services (CMS) Title-19
• Children Medical Services (CMS) Title-21
• Molina Healthcare
• Amerigroup Caritas
• United Healthcare
• Simply Healthcare
• Private Pay