ABOUT OCCUPLAY

At Occuplay, we strongly value relationships in order to provide the highest quality of care and create individualized treatment programs. Childrens' interests and strengths are emphasized to foster growth, engagement and social-emotional well being. Clinicians combine their discipline-specific knowledge while referencing Stanley Greenspan's Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCS) to address milestones and track progress:

Self-Regulation

In order to learn about the world and share attention with caretakers, children need to process and organize sensory input from their environment. This allows them to self-sooth, and experience a regulatory state optimal for learning.

Engagement and Relating

Forming intimate relationships with primary caretakers provides children with a sense of security and joy. If children are not motivated by their relationships, there is less of a need for communication.

Purposeful Communication

As relationships strengthen, children begin to develop self-awareness and understand that their actions are meaningful to those around them, setting the stage for back and forth communication with intention.

Shared Social Problem Solving

A "sense of self" continues to develop and children begin to expand on their ideas and demonstrate communication with higher complexity.

Creating Symbols and Ideas

Through pretend play, children combine emotional meaningful experiences with new ideas and actions. As children learn to think more abstractly, they can better process their thoughts and meet their own needs.

Logical Thinking

Children begin to organize their thoughts and learn to connect them to the emotion, behavior and actions of others.