Discovering Abilities

Discovering Abilities Discovering Abilities is a private company that provides in-home occupational therapy services to children and their families in the Greater Toronto Area.

Your child may benefit from OT Services if he/she has difficulties with:

fine motor tasks (colouring, cutting, holding a pencil, etc)
printing, cursive writing or keyboarding
dressing activities (doing up buttons, zippers or tying shoelaces)
sensory processing (ie. bothered by loud noises or unable to tolerate certain textures of food or clothing)
gross motor tasks requiring balance and co-o

rdination (throwing or catching a ball, balancing on one foot, running, etc)
attention (ie. unable to focus on tasks or remain seated without fidgeting)

What is Occupational Therapy? Occupational Therapy is a health profession that helps people of all ages lead a more productive, satisfying and independent life. Fundamental to the practice of Occupational Therapy is the person's occupations. Occupation is defined as the tasks and activities that occupy a person's time and energy throughout the day. This can include things like getting dressed, preparing a meal, working at a job, playing, attending school, and enjoying time with family or friends. Occupational Therapy helps individuals to perform the occupations they need and want to do. When a person’s life is affected by illness, disability or any other problem, an occupational therapist (OT) can help them do the things that are important to them by addressing their difficulties. With children in particular, OTs most commonly address issues that impact their participation in school, self care or leisure activities. Discovering Abilities offers a wide variety of OT services including:

assessment of fine/gross motor skills
assessment of sensory processing skills
individualized treatment sessions
consultation to address difficulties at school and/or at home
Assessments may include one or more of the following:

standardized and non-standardized testing
parent questionnaire, interview or feedback
clinical observation

02/24/2023
Happy New Year to all! Wishing all our families and friends a happy, healthy year ahead!
12/31/2022

Happy New Year to all! Wishing all our families and friends a happy, healthy year ahead!

Discovering Abilities is now offering Qigong Sensory Treatment for Autism at our Scarborough location.💙 Qigong Sensory T...
10/21/2022

Discovering Abilities is now offering Qigong Sensory Treatment for Autism at our Scarborough location.

💙 Qigong Sensory Treatment (QST) is an evidence-based, proven, touch-based autism intervention for children that parents perform daily with their child to effectively treat sensory issues and decrease symptoms of autism.

💙 Results are cumulative and can be apparent in as few as 30 days of treatment.

💙 QST is based on practices used in the East for thousands of years. QSTI

💙 QST is the intervention with the most positive outcomes for treating sensory challenges in children with autism.

Contact us to schedule an appointment for QST.

Qigong Sensory Treatment (QST)

Come check out our new clinic!
09/22/2022

Come check out our new clinic!

More evidence-based research regarding the benefits of Qigong Sensory Training for Children with Autism. Please call us ...
08/17/2022

More evidence-based research regarding the benefits of Qigong Sensory Training for Children with Autism. Please call us to see if it could benefit your child.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/aurt/2015/904585/?fbclid=IwAR0RZ8y0cCvyvqXME8DaHA-nxQXP2hQ1YsH_UD-keFpYUxhOUuvErwPQMVw

Tactile abnormalities are severe and universal in preschool children with autism. They respond well to treatment with a daily massage protocol directed at tactile abnormalities (QST massage for autism). Treatment is based on a model for autism proposing that tactile impairment poses a barrier to dev...

Nature based vestibular activities
05/29/2022

Nature based vestibular activities

Qi Gong Sensory Treatment for Autism Available is coming to Discovering Abilities in September 2022. Contact us for mor...
05/28/2022

Qi Gong Sensory Treatment for Autism Available is coming to Discovering Abilities in September 2022. Contact us for more information or to be added to the wait list.

Qigong Sensory Treatment (QST)

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