Occupational Therapists have been training clients in functional skills since our profession began. With intervention, clients and their families can look forward to an increase in level of function. This will decrease the cost of care to families, insurance companies, and taxpayers. 

ASSESSMENTS

Occupational Therapists are skilled at choosing from a wide variety of tools which assist in the assessment of the individual's difficulties. Some of these tools require additional training in theory and practice, such as the SIPT (Sensory and Integration Praxis Tests). Back to Life Rehabilitation's Owner, Jeanmarie Breault Towsley has this additional training and is certified in the use of the SIPT and Sensory Integration Therapy. This is an A. Jean Ayres registered trademark therapy. 

“If I have been productive, it is partly because I have had the advantage of contact with those with the courage as well as the ability to think independently and along unorthodox lines. It has not been easy for the helping professions to conceive of human behavior as an express of the brain, and they are still struggling to do so… The employing of neural mechanisms to enhance motor development is now well established; the current area of major growth and controversy lies in the use of neurological constructs to aid in understanding and ameliorating cognitive functions such as learning disabilities; the next step may well be a more fruitful attack on emotional and behavior disorders.”
— Jean Ayres (1974, p. xi)

What We CAN ACHIEVE

  • Skills for functional tasks
  • self concept and self esteem
  • Oral motor development and eating skills
  • Body position for self care and daily activities
  • Perceptual motor skills
  • Spatial and Body perception
  • Ability to concentrate and organize self
  • Organization and sequencing of functional tasks
  • consultation with the family, doctors, school personnel, and others involved in order to provide the best rehabilitation plan
  • referrals to other health care professionals and/or community agencies when appropriate
  • Hand skills for fine motor tasks