ADAPTATIONS IN PROGRESS: making a few updates to create a better fit - stay tuned!
ADAPTATIONS IN PROGRESS: making a few updates to create a better fit - stay tuned!
Children and adolescents participate in many different environments throughout the day. Support is most useful when it connects to the places and activities that are actually part of a child’s life. Functional Link looks at the activities, routines, expectations, environments, and supports surrounding the child to identify practical ways to make everyday participation work better.
Whether there is a specific everyday activity that has become difficult, your child’s needs are changing, or you are trying to understand what may be getting in the way of participation, Functional Link considers the whole picture rather than looking at one skill or setting in isolation.
Functional Link provides individualized occupational therapy support for children and adolescents when sensory, motor, self-care, executive functioning, regulation, or other functional needs are affecting participation in everyday activities.
Direct OT services may be available on a case-by-case basis depending on individual needs and service availability.
Functional Link helps develop practical strategies for routines, transitions, organization, emotional and sensory regulation, task completion, and other everyday demands that can affect participation across settings.
Functional Link looks at how environments, activities, expectations, communication, and available supports influence participation and identifies adaptations that can make everyday settings easier to navigate and use.
Functional Link develops visual supports, routines, environmental modifications, activity adaptations, and other individualized strategies that make everyday activities easier to understand, navigate, and participate in.
Functional Link works alongside parents and caregivers to understand what is happening in everyday life, explore practical strategies, and adapt routines, activities, tools, or environments in ways that fit the child and family.
Using visual supports, environmental setup, predictable routines, adapted tools, or changes in task demands to support greater participation in everyday routines.
Helping children and families prepare for and participate in outings, recreation, camps, celebrations, community events, and other shared experiences through individualized strategies, environmental adaptations, sensory supports, and on-site problem-solving when needed.
Looking at classroom setup, transitions, sensory demands, communication, routines, seating, activities, and expectations to identify practical supports. Functional Link also provides educational advocacy & IEP consultation for public and private schools.
Changing materials, tools, instructions, positioning, pacing, or participation options for play, recreation, hobbies, self-care, or community activities.
Supporting organization, planning, task initiation, self-care, decision-making, and other skills as children and adolescents take on greater independence.
Helping caregivers adjust routines, expectations, environments, and supports as a child’s abilities, roles, activities, and daily demands change.
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