WELCOME TO DYNAMIC THERAPLAY
Dynamic Theraplay is a pediatric practice that provides occupational therapy services for children focusing on helping kids develop the skills required to succeed in school, at home and in the community.
Our goal is to help each child reach their potential by providing individualized treatment plans tailored specifically to their needs.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SERVICES
Occupational therapy focuses on a child’s fine motor skills, self help skills, and sensory development. At Dynamic Theraplay, our therapists are trained to evaluate each child, and develop a treatment plan to help the child reach their goals.
ABOUT US
Our Background
Rachel is the founder of Dynamic Theraplay. She graduated from Quinnipiac University in 2006 with a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy.
Rachel has worked in a variety of pediatric settings including schools, outpatient clinics, and community-based pre-vocational training. She has experience with children ages 2- 16 working toward a variety of skills including but not limited to sensory processing skills, fine motor coordination, handwriting, executive functioning, visual perceptual skills and daily living skills. Rachel is passionate about designing sessions that are fun, client-centered and goal-focused. Using a strength-based approach, she strives to facilitate the acquisition of functional skills for her clients that can be applied at home, school and in the community. Rachel has been trained in Handwriting Without Tears, Fundations for Handwriting, Orton-Gillingham for literacy and reading and Self-Regulation in Children.
OUR SERVICES
Meeting Your Needs
SENSORY PROCESSING AND SENSORY DIETS
Helping your child with increasing tolerance for touch during grooming, improving self-regulation of alert/calm versus distressed states, improving adaptation to various senses (movement, sound, taste, touch, smell, and vision), and tolerance of sensory rich environments.
EARLY INTERVENTION
For babies and toddlers is to establish foundational skills necessary for overall development, large and fine motor coordination, vision and perception, and nervous system regulation. Developmental testing, therapy, home programs, and parent training are part of our program.
LARGE MOTOR COORDINATION TRAINING
For posture, balance, running, jumping, as well as eye-hand and eye-foot coordination training.
FINE MOTOR COORDINATION TRAINING
Developing mature hand grasp patterns, pencil grasp and control, handwriting, cutting, coloring, and typing/computer use using a variety of evidence based programs.
ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING (ADL) SKILLS TRAINING
Completing Self-care tasks such as buttoning, tying shoelaces, dressing, eating utensil use, grooming, as well as organizational and memory skill development for daily independence including self-care and homework.
VISUAL MOTOR AND VISUAL PERCEPTUAL TRAINING
Training in oculomotor control for following lines of print, copy, and left-right directionality, as well as visual perceptual training for spatial awareness and understanding of math concepts.
ORTON-GILLINGHAM
Orton-Gillingham is a highly structured approach that breaks reading and spelling down into smaller skills involving letters and sounds, and then building on these skills over time. It was the first approach to use explicit, direct, sequential, systematic, multi-sensory instruction to teach reading, which is not only effective for all students but essential for teaching students with dyslexia.
Lisa Maslow- Preschool teacher at the JCC
Rachel is amazing! I see her walk quickly with smile to greet her students and they are equally excited to greet her, that's where it begins. Rachel is kind and patient with her students as I can attest as I watch my student blossom weekly( I am a pre school teacher) with her insightful knowledge! It brings tears of joy to my eyes, and positive thoughts to my heart to watch how amazingly hard she works with these students! They are flourishing! I will be recommending Rachel to all my students who have OT needs...she is a gift who shares her gift with the students! Rachel is a true blessing!
Elizabeth Rubin
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Jennifer Brunmer-Parent
Rachel’s warm approach creates a safe and comfortable space for children to do their best learning. She looks at the needs of her kiddos from all angles to create activities that are perfectly suited to them, and she supports parents so that the learning can extend beyond her sessions and into their daily lives, making the greatest impact. She is one of a kind. Wish I could give her 10 stars.
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