Life Touch Therapy

Life Touch Therapy Life Touch Therapy provides both In- home & Clinic pediatric OT, SLP & PT services.

Happy Father’s Day to the dads, grandpas, stepdads, father figures, and caregivers who show up for their children day af...
06/21/2026

Happy Father’s Day to the dads, grandpas, stepdads, father figures, and caregivers who show up for their children day after day 💙👔💫

Thank you for the early mornings, the long days, the encouragement, the patience, and the countless ways you support your children behind the scenes!!

Thank you for trusting us with your babies and allowing us to be part of their journey. We see the time you spend practicing skills at home, cheering on milestones, advocating for your child, and showing up through both the victories and the challenges.

The progress we celebrate in therapy is made possible by the love, dedication, and commitment you bring every day.

Today, we celebrate all the dads and father figures who help their children learn, grow, and thrive. We appreciate you more than you know.

Happy Father’s Day from all of us at Life Touch Therapy 💙

06/17/2026

Thanks Hope Chapel for allowing our therapists to be a part of your classroom! We had a blast playing Hopscotch with all our little friends!!

06/16/2026

Behavior is communication 👇

In this moment, our client missed the target and immediately began showing signs of frustration. But instead of focusing on the behavior itself, we focused on the skill underneath it.

Through movement, co-regulation, Zones of Regulation, and lots of practice in low-pressure situations, we worked on recognizing emotions, recovering from mistakes, and trying again.

Many children with ADHD, sensory differences, or emotional regulation challenges struggle when things don’t go as planned. The goal isn’t perfection, yet instead it’s building the tools they need to navigate those moments successfully!!

Does your child struggle with frustration, big emotions, transitions, or behaviors that seem to come out of nowhere?

Occupational therapy may be able to help!!

🚨Life Touch Therapy offers FREE screenings to help identify whether sensory processing, regulation, motor, or executive functioning challenges may be impacting your child’s daily life.

📩 Send us a DM to learn more or schedule a free screening today.

One activity. Hundreds of tiny brain-and-body connections! When children complete visual construction puzzles like this,...
06/16/2026

One activity. Hundreds of tiny brain-and-body connections!

When children complete visual construction puzzles like this, they’re building much more than a picture. Let’s unpack what his activity supports:

👀 Visual Perception

… working on goals like identifying shapes, discriminating between similar pieces, and recognizing spatial relationships

✌️ Visual-Motor Integration

… goals like using what the eyes see to guide hand movements, and accurately orienting and placing pieces

🤌 Fine Motor Skills

… goals like precision grasp and release, finger dexterity, and in-hand manipulation while rotating pieces

🙌 Bilateral Coordination

…. goals like stabilizing with one hand while manipulating with the other and coordinating both sides of the body together

🧠 Executive Functioning

… goals like planning, problem-solving, working on trial and error, and lexible thinking when a piece doesn’t fit

💪 Attention & Persistence

… goals like a sustaining focus, working through frustration, and completing a task from start to finish

🪐Spatial Awareness

… goals like understanding concepts like above, below, beside, turn, flip, and rotate

➡️The best part? To a child, it feels like play!! To an OT, it’s a meaningful opportunity to build foundational skills that support handwriting, dressing, classroom participation, and everyday independence 🫶

Play is powerful, but PURPOSEFUL play is pediatric OT ✨

06/15/2026

👣 It looks like we’re just playing with scrunchies, but there’s a whole lot of OT happening here!! 💪🙌

This simple activity challenged:

✔️ Reaching toward feet and lower body awareness
✔️ Motor planning and body coordination
✔️ Bilateral hand use (using both hands together)
✔️ Problem-solving and flexible thinking
✔️ Visual-motor skills
✔️ Dressing-related skills like removing socks and accessing feet
✔️ Attention and persistence through a playful task

By taking the scrunchies off his ankles and figuring out how to place them on different body parts, our friend was building important foundational skills that support independence with everyday activities.

The best therapy often looks like play!! 💙

06/12/2026

there’s a teeny hole on the top of this cup that one toothpick perfectly fits inside, which makes this a perfect task to work on fine motor skills!

Two items, not expensive, and so many fun ways to incorporate other goals!!

Try working on patterns when placing them in the cup, or recalling 2-3 colors that were called out for a memory game! You could talk about each color as they associate to the Zones of Regulation, and talk about feelings in those zones + what to do when feeling those feelings. Also, you could work on reaching from right to left and switching hands to create a more difficult bilateral coordination skills task!

What would you have your clients do?

Parents & caregivers… let us know if you’ll be giving this task a try 😍🙌

06/11/2026

We are honored to be a part of your kiddos lives and know what a privilege it is to work with them!! Thank you for having us! 💙💚🩵

05/22/2026

FIRST SPECIAL NEEDS SWIM NIGHT OF THE SEASON!

Come join us for our special needs swim night, providing an opportunity for our special needs guests and their families to enjoy a calm pool environment. We ask that you share this so we can have a good turnout. We are looking forward to seeing you all on June 11th!😀❤️

05/18/2026

OT sessions don’t always look like “therapy” ⚾️🫶

To our friend here, this activity probably just felt like playing catch outside! Little did he know, hidden inside this game was SO much work happening:

⚾️ hand-eye coordination
🧢bilateral coordination
💪motor planning + timing
👀visual tracking
⚾️ impulse control + attention
🧢frustration tolerance + resilience
💪behavior strategies using Zones of Regulation
👀sensory input through movement, sunshine, fresh air, and heavy work
⚾️ social connection + confidence building

Client-centered therapy means meeting kids where THEY are because when a child feels safe and engaged, that’s where they grow and learn!!

Sometimes growth looks less like worksheets and table work, and more like baseball gloves and belly laughs 🥹💕

05/16/2026

the secret is….

this isn’t blowing bubbles for play, it’s actually really hard oral motor and breath control work right in front of your eyes!!

👀🫧 check it out ⬇️
Using a thin straw to blow bubbles into water targets:

🫧oral motor strength + coordination
🫧breath control
🫧lip closure
🫧grading force (“too much” vs “just right”)
🫧sustained attention
🫧motor planning
🫧regulation through controlled breathing

Pro tip: The smaller the straw, the more control and effort it takes 👏

This is one of our therapists favorite ways to make hard work feel FUN while still supporting foundational skills needed for feeding, speech, self-regulation, and overall body awareness!!

Save this & try it at home! 💾

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