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Occupational Therapy

Distance Learning:

Letter from OT

Please check the OT Website for more weekly lessons and resources:

https://sites.google.com/view/gengrascenterotpt/home 

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Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy are based on the individual needs of our students so they are able to access and benefit from special education. All evaluations, assessments, consultations and treatment plans are performed by licensed therapists. Our therapists work with students in small groups or one-on-one as well as consulting with teaching staff to effectively incorporate strategies into the classroom.

The Occupational Therapy department’s direct purpose is to incorporate the use of purposeful activities to facilitate a child’s active participation in self-maintenance; academic and vocational pursuits; and play or leisure activities that occur within the school environment. Using indirect service, as well as assistive technology and modifications to the environment, our occupational therapists collaborate with parents, teachers and other educational staff to help implement a child’s special education program.

To allow for successful participation and mastery of IEP goals in the school environment, OT areas of intervention include:

  • Sensory Integration
  • Fine Motor Skills
  • Gross Motor Upper Body Skills
  • Motor Planning
  • Bilateral Motor Coordination
  • Oral Motor facilitation
  • Visual Motor Integration

"We put a special emphasis on making every square inch of the Gengras Center as comfortable and familiar to our students as if it were their own homes."

– Becca Souza, Physical Therapist

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The Gengras Center School

The Gengras Center School, founded by the University of Saint Joseph in 1965, is a state-approved private special education school that provides for the educational and vocational needs of students ages 5-21, and serves as a laboratory school for USJ's education and social services majors.

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