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-Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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Occupational therapy's distinct value is to improve health and quality of life through facilitating participation and engagement in occupations. Occupations are the meaningful, necessary, and familiar activities of everyday life. In other words, occupational therapist help people do the things that they need and want to do.

What is Occupational Therapy

Sensory Processing/integration

Sensory processing refers to the brain's ability to receive, organize and effectively use information provided to us from all our senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and the ability to detect movement (vestibular and proprioceptive systems). Several parts of sensory processing will be discussed as they relate to sensory integration including: registration, discrimination, modulation and ultimately sensory integration.