Occupational Therapy
In addition to RDI®, our facility utilizes Occupational Therapy techniques throughout the day and provides Occupational Therapy services. Our founder, Kris Worell, is a licensed Occupational Therapist and we also staff an Occupational Therapist Assistant. Dynamic Connections primarily uses Occupational Therapy to promote regulation, self care skills, and motor skills.
The following strategies help us achieve these ideas with our clients:
The Alert Program®, aka The Cognitive Approach to Self Regulation, aka The Engine Program. This approach helps children explore and use different sensory processing strategies to help them stay focused and attentive. Strategies can be used to recover from upsets or excitement, to maintain and continue a focused activity, etc.
Sensory Diet. This approach is one of regular, scheduled activities involving basic sensory input such as pressure touch, movement, and oral. These strategies help compensate for sensory processing difficulties and assist with organized behavior throughout the day. Examples; 5 minute swing break first thing in the morning, a pillow squish mid day, chewing gum during table top activities.
At Dynamic Connections we have expanded these programs to include emotional and cognitive components of regulation. We find this immeasurably helpful when physical strategies do not improve regulation.
We encourage increased responsibility and at the same time recognize that kids need to learn a small piece at a time and experience each step of success. We present these milestones as “self control levels” to clients as a helpful way to spotlight achievement. We believe self control evolves from regulation and it evolves from physical regulation, emotional regulation, and cognitive regulation.
To contact us, please call 651-760-3109 or fill out the contact form, and a member of our team will respond promptly to answer your questions, schedule a consultation, or provide more information about our programs.
Thank you for considering Dynamic Connections—we’re committed to fostering meaningful growth and genuine connections for every individual we serve.
