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A therapy based on the science of coordination and motor skills. Occupational therapy helps children struggling with everyday tasks due to poor motor skills. That includes tasks that are part of learning and functioning well at school, from simply zipping their jacket to writing or typing.

Adaptive Skills Training

This intensive one-on-one program  is a beneficial life-skill that should be learned by children with autism, comprising daily living skills that are helpful to lead a healthy, independent life.

Play Skills Training

By increasing a child’s motivation to engage in toys or activities, this therapy program is focused on developing independent engagement skills that help a child be OK with being left alone for any period.

Handwriting

Handwriting is a complex process and is not as simple as people think. From a therapy point of view, handwriting can be broken down into three fundamental areas, language comprehension, motor skills, and visual-perceptual skills. For children having difficulty bridging the gap between thought and patterns, this program focuses on writing skills by teaching methods such as shaping while using physical and sometimes verbal prompts.

Toilet Training

If a child is still having difficulties after the usual parent’s potty-training methods, teaching focused on the consistency of a schedule of toileting routine increases the probability of the child either using or requesting the toilet independently.

Pre-academic Training

Giving your child every possible advantage in a potentially daunting new environment, this program focuses on providing the child with basic pre-academic skills, allowing them to join in at the same or similar level.

Motor Skills

Not restricted to children with developmental difficulties, this program is suitable for any child that might need help shaping basic fine or gross motor skills.

Cognitive Skills

Skills focusing on early developmental milestones such as Object permeance, Joint attention, Problem Solving, etc.

Play Therapy

Creating a safe, confidential, and caring environment with as few limits as possible but as many as necessary to allow a child to play with physical and emotional safety. They may be alone or with groups of children.

Visual-Motor and Perception Skills

A child’s ability to coordinate visual information with motor output. Visual perception helps children to recognize, recall, discriminate, and make sense of what they see. Both are underlying components of catching a ball, forming letters properly between lines, reading, and cutting on lines.

Motor Planning

We deal with a child’s ability to comprehend, plan, and carry out a skilled, non-habitual motor act in the correct sequence from beginning to end. Incoming sensory stimuli must be correctly integrated to form the basis for appropriate, coordinated motor responses.

Muscle Tone

The amount of tension in a muscle when at resting state (not actively contracted) defines a child’s ability to maintain a healthy body posture. … Occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech therapy are used to support children with low muscle tone.

Postural Control

Postural control therapy allows for maintaining posture, stability, and balance when moving against gravity and in and out of midline. Good control helps a child anticipate and adapt to balance challenges in the environment and develop a sense of body awareness in space.

Concentration

An effective treatment to improve your child’s concentration and memory can be done through different treatment options with the ultimate aim of improving function. Poor concentration can impact profoundly both at school and at home, so it is essential to address this early.

School Readiness Program

Practical sessions where children are introduces to a structured environment preparing them for the exciting school days ahead. Here we develop an interest in learning through fun exercises that give them a taste of school life and interaction.

Balance and Coordination

Age-appropriate balance and coordination allow your child to participate in sports with a reasonable degree of success as it aids fluid body movement for physical skill performance. It also helps children develop and maintain appropriate controlled body movement during task performance, which, when effective, limits the energy required and minimizes fatigue.

Kids who struggle with motor skills can often feel like victims, so it’s important to know that the earlier a child starts occupational therapy, the higher their chance of success. Occupational Therapy treatments work to improve fine and gross motor skills. Doing basic tasks can help with self-esteem and confidence, especially in front of other kids. At Autism Point, we help a child reach their full potential towards an assistance-free lifestyle. We cater to different levels and severity of cases and treatments are geared for your child’s specific needs. Our therapists assess your child’s strengths and challenges and identify a program for your child. Occupational therapy may also help kids with other difficulties like dyslexia, visual processing issues, executive functioning issues, and dysgraphia.

A therapy based on the science of communication skills. Has your child’s teacher suggested that your child might struggle with certain speech or language skills? Perhaps while talking to your child, you’ve noticed a little stutter. If so, an evaluation by a certified speech-language pathologist in Lahore at Autism Point can help find out if your child is indeed having problems.

Social Skills Training

Children that struggle to adapt in various social settings will benefit from this therapy program that aims to enhance verbal and non-verbal communication skills (any form of social interactions that may be lacking), and confidence.

Play Skills Training

By increasing a child’s motivation to engage in toys or activities, this therapy program is focused on developing independent engagement skills that help a child be OK with being left alone for any period of time.

Cognitive Skills

Skills focusing on early developmental milestones such as Object permeance, Joint attention, Problem Solving, etc.

Play Therapy

Creating a safe, confidential, and caring environment with as few limits as possible but as many as necessary to allow a child to play with physical and emotional safety. They may be alone or with groups of children.

Oral Placement Therapy

For any child who is struggling to form proper sounds with speaking Oral Placement Therapy utilizes a combination of auditory stimulation, visual stimulation and tactile mouth stimulation to improve speech clarity.

Pre-school Language Scales Assessment

PLS-5 offers a comprehensive developmental language assessment with items that range from pre-verbal, interaction-based skills to emerging language and early literacy.

Kaufman Speech Praxis Test

If they know what to say, but can’t seem to say it, KSPT is a norm-referenced, diagnostic test that could assist in the identification and treatment of childhood apraxia of speech.

HANEN Intervention Approach (Therapy & Parent Training)

Parents and educators are taught to facilitate communication development in young children to promote communication, social skills, and literacy in everyday activities.

Picture Exchange Communication System

PECS allows people with little or no communication abilities to communicate using pictures. People using PECS are taught to approach another person and give them a picture of a desired item in exchange for that item.

American Sign Language (ASL)

The primary language of many who are deaf and hard of hearing ASL is a complete, natural signing language with the same linguistic properties as spoken languages and is expressed by movements of the hands and face.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

AAC communication devices, systems, strategies, and tools replace or support natural speech and are known as augmentative and alternative communication. These tools support a person who has difficulties using speech.

Visual-Motor and Perception Skills

A child’s ability to coordinate visual information with motor output. Visual perception helps children to recognize, recall, discriminate and make sense of what they see. Both are underlying components of catching a ball, forming letters properly between lines, reading and cutting on lines.

Our  speech and language therapists will listen to your child to hear how he says sounds, look at how your child moves his lips, jaw, and tongue. The therapist may also test your child’s language skills, all before prescribing speech-language therapy. Articulation disorders: difficulties producing sounds in syllables or incorrectly saying words Fluency disorders: such as stuttering, where the flow of speech has abnormal stoppages, Resonance or voice disorders: problems with the pitch, volume, or quality of the voice. Each of these types of disorders may also cause frustration for a child when speaking so it’s important to treat as early as possible to allow your child to be socially comfortable in their community settings.