FAQs

A pediatric occupational therapist works with patients from birth through age 21 to determine underlying skill deficits that are impacting development and causing delays or limitations.

Occupational Therapy (OT) helps children succeed in important areas (occupations!) of their lives such as:

• Promoting academic skills including functional fine motor skills, handwriting, sustained attention, and executive functioning.

• Addressing sensory processing and arousal modulation skills.

• Expanding diet through play-based feeding therapy services.

• Teaching emotional regulation and calming and coping skills.

• Educating parents/teachers on tools and strategies to carry over skills.

• Enabling independence and developing age-appropriate skills in daily self-care activities including dressing, feeding, oral hygiene, healthy sleep habits, routine management, and more.

• Integration of primitive reflexes as well as strength, endurance, bilateral coordination, fine motor integration and precision, upper limb coordination, and more.

OTs are clinically trained to look at the overall function of their clients and identify specific areas of development and neurology that may be impeding success in their client's roles.

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Some of these areas may include:

• Delays in fine motor skills

• Visual motor skills – tracking an object, hand-eye coordination

• Cognitive delays including problem-solving skills, executive function, memory, and attention

• Sensory processing needs

• Delays in play and social interaction skills

• Learning basic self-care tasks, such as getting dressed

Jessica Neuwirth, OTR/L, LLC is an out-of-network provider and does not directly bill your insurance company. I am a private pay practice at this time and require payment at the time of service. 

If requested, I can provide you with a superbill to submit to your insurance for out of network reimbursement. Please check with your insurance provider, as this may be an option for you, though it does not guarantee reimbursement for services. 

Payment is due at the time services are rendered and may be made via debit/credit card through a secure HIPPA-compliant payment. I additionally accept payment through The Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA), formerly known as The Gardiner Scholarship as an approved provider.

To schedule an appointment, you can contact me at 954-247-1129, email me at info@jessicaneuwirthot.com, or fill out the contact form. I would love to set up a 15-minute free consultation to discuss next steps for your child's evaluation.