Happy Hands OT

10/01/2025

📢 NEW SERVICES ALERT!
Happy Hands OT now offers the following new options in addition to pediatric OT to help serve more families in and around our Central Ohio community!

🙌 Orton-Gillingham Certified reading instruction
🙌 In-depth Dyslexia evaluations
🙌 Speech & Language therapy services

We still travel to you AND we are available to start in October!

Don’t hesitate to reach out to get scheduled today!
www.happyhandsot.com

05/12/2025

School is almost out and you know what that means! ☀️ We are currently working on our SUMMER schedule and have openings beginning in June for traditional OT services or higher frequency summer intensives to get your child ready for next school year! 🖍️📝 ✋

Contact us today to get on the schedule asap before these open slots fills up! And don’t forget - we make it easy on your family and travel to you. Whether it’s in your home, your child’s summer camp, daycare, etc. we work within your own schedule availability and location preference.
Info@happyhandsot.com or online at www.happyhandsot.com

03/27/2025

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12/14/2024

📢 Travel Territory Announcement!! 📢

Happy Hands OT is excited to announce two new cities being added to our current mobile pediatric OT services route in Central Ohio! Beginning in 2025, we will now be able to offer OT for families in Marysville and Plain City!

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions about our program and if we travel to your location in Columbus and surrounding cities.

08/12/2024

5 minute Before & After pencil grasp transformation. ✏️ 🤚🏻 Sometimes all you need is to find the right verbal & tactile cue and voila! For our friend here giving him a cue at his forearm to relax on the table instead of up in the air resulted in improved stability at his wrist position and naturally switched his grasp to a more functional one!

School is right around the corner! We work with kids in your home, private school, or daycare and are currently working on our September OT session schedules. Don’t hesitate to reach out today!

Email info@happyhandsot.com or reach out online at www.happyhandsot.com

07/18/2024

Mealtime can often turn into an anxiety-ridden battleground of wills, when what we really want is a fun-filled opportunity to connect and reflect with our child. We want our children to eat all the food on their plates at every meal, and for plenty of good reasons: we don’t want food to go to waste; we want our little people to be well nourished; we associate ‘eating everything’ with good health; we worked hard to prepare the meals and want to feel like it was appreciated.

But believe it or not, using such a simple, common phrase like “finish your food!” can backfire. Pressure to eat can lead our children into an unhealthy relationship with food. Rather than follow their hunger cues, they may feel shame, guilt, or an obligation to eat, even if they’re not hungry.

So let’s practice replacing “Finish your food!” with language that supports our children’s emotional and physical health. Here are 6 phrases that support behavior modification in a loving, helpful way. (via https://gozen.com/6-standoff-ending-phrases-to-replace-finish-your-food/)

03/12/2024

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-hand-is-better-for-memory-and-learning/

Engaging the fine motor system to produce letters by hand has positive effects on learning and memory

03/06/2024

POV: When you get to practice your scissor skills by cutting out some of your favorite food items 😉 🍕 ✂️ 🙌

01/05/2024

📢 OT/COTA Summer Opportunity Alert!! 📢
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12/14/2023

Happy Holidays from our Happy Hands OT team! We are blessed to work with such amazing children and families who put their trust and confidence in us. We appreciate you and are looking forward to continuing to serve with all our heart in 2024! 🫶🏻🤗

11/09/2023

Really helpful apps!

10/26/2023

⭐️ 🙌 Happy Hands OT Tip:

Have your kids lay on their tummies propped on their elbows/forearms while coloring, reading, doing puzzles, during circle time at school, etc. Super easy and super beneficial!

Why? ...

• provides regulating input for the nervous system because when the neck is in extension in this position it activates the brain stem. Make sure they are NOT resting their chin on the floor or in their hands, they should be propped on the elbows using the shoulder girdle and back muscles to support the upper body and head/neck.

• facilitates shoulder stability and scapular strength which is important for fine motor development

• promotes ocular motor and visual motor development

• provides deep pressure sensory input to the full trunk and surface of the legs and forearms that are touching the floor

• remember “tummy time” as an infant? This continues to provide prone extension which is a very important developmental pattern, especially for sensory integration.

• facilitates some joint traction to the spine with the break from gravity in upright positions

👉🏼 If you’re having concerns about your child’s fine motor or visual motor development, contact us for a free phone consult to discuss your concerns together, learn about our mobile services, and see if an OT evaluation is warranted! www.happyhandsot.com or 614-822-1296