OTA The Koomar Center

OTA The Koomar Center At OTA, we provide high-quality, personalized occupational therapy, speech therapy, and mental health services – rooted in research and compassion.

Our seasoned therapists offer support that helps people enrich and enhance their lives.

06/11/2026

Do you have a 3:0-4:11 year old? If you do, help us engage in this groundbreaking research study to help us understand how children process and respond to sensory information.

If you are interested in learning more information or have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]

       

06/09/2026

Here is one of our lovely occupational therapists, Katie, trying out this tricky obstacle course her client came up with!

Look at Katie’s praxis skills! 🤩

Fine Motor Activity Highlight! 🦋💫🌺This is a great craft to do, especially with our artistic clients! Make sure to have a...
06/05/2026

Fine Motor Activity Highlight! 🦋💫🌺

This is a great craft to do, especially with our artistic clients! Make sure to have a visual model as well as step by step instructions on how to assemble to support success. Consider different designs with fewer or more steps to grade the activity to be the “just right match!”

Try this activity with kids you want to target praxis skills with!

What other designs could you make? Have fun! 😊

Equipment Highlight! 🤩One of our client's came up with this fun ninja obstacle challenge and crash pad! We always love t...
06/03/2026

Equipment Highlight! 🤩

One of our client's came up with this fun ninja obstacle challenge and crash pad! We always love to see what our clients come up with and how creative they are!

Oral Motor Activity Highlight: Wiggly Worm! 🐛Here is a fun and easy oral motor activity!When setting this activity up fo...
06/02/2026

Oral Motor Activity Highlight: Wiggly Worm! 🐛

Here is a fun and easy oral motor activity!

When setting this activity up for your clients, consider the following principles in your selection of the just right straw:

🐛Smaller straw, higher lip closure demands; Larger straw, lower lip closure demands.

🐛Longer straw, higher breath control demands; Shorter straw, lower breath control demands.

Have fun!

Support this groundbreaking research study to help us understand how children process and respond to sensory information...
05/18/2026

Support this groundbreaking research study to help us understand how children process and respond to sensory information.

If you are interested in learning more information or have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]

Fine Motor Activity Highlight! 🐛Here is a little blast from the past, the game of Cootie! Cootie is a fun and simple gam...
05/16/2026

Fine Motor Activity Highlight! 🐛

Here is a little blast from the past, the game of Cootie!

Cootie is a fun and simple game that also targets many different functional skills:
🐛 Bilateral motor coordination: Can you hold the body of the bug still while adding other body parts?
🐛 Grasp patterns- Can you shift your grasp patterns to accommodate for the different sizes of the pieces?
🐛 In hand manipulation- Can you move pieces around in your hand to align them correctly to the holes?
🐛 Tactile discrimination- Can you successfully place the piece into the body while relying on touch (and vision!) to be successful?
🐛 Visual perception- Can you match the image on the spinner to the correct body parts?

Some ways to grade the activity up:
🐛 Hand strengthening- Can you pull the pieces out of putty or playdough?
🐛 Tactile discrimination- Can you find/ feel and pull the pieces out of different tactile bins?
🐛 Pre-writing skills- Can you draw or write about your new bug friend?

Happy Speech, Language, and Hearing Month!! 👄Shout out to all the wonderful speech-language pathologists out there! You ...
05/15/2026

Happy Speech, Language, and Hearing Month!! 👄

Shout out to all the wonderful speech-language pathologists out there! You support making connections through ALL types of communication! We appreciate you all!


May Book of the Month! 📖Title: Big Feelings (An All Are Welcome Book)Author: Alexandra PenfoldIllustrator: Suzanna Kaufm...
05/14/2026

May Book of the Month! 📖

Title: Big Feelings (An All Are Welcome Book)
Author: Alexandra Penfold
Illustrator: Suzanna Kaufman

We love this book because it helps us celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month by encouraging discussion of feelings and how we cope with them! 🙂

Happy Reading! 😊

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74 Bridge Street
Newton, MA
02458

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Monday 8am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 6:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 6:30pm
Thursday 8am - 6:30pm
Friday 8am - 6:30pm
Saturday 8am - 2pm

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