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Wellesley Pediatric Occupational Therapy

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Wellesley Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Wellesley Pediatric Occupational Therapy is a private therapy clinic conveniently located in Wellesl

03/19/2026

Still looking for something to fill your child’s schedule this summer? Check out our bike riding group held at Warren Park! 🚲 Your child will practice social skills while having fun in the sun and working on bike skills, sensory integration, executive functioning, coordination and more!

Sign up using the link in our bio or contacting us as @wellesleyot.com. You can sign up for one class, purchase a 10-pack or unlimited group pass. ☀️

03/17/2026

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Warmer weather is coming and spring is just around the corner! 🌸 Have your kiddo hop on their trike/bike to practice

🚲 Overall strength
🚲 Motor coordination
🚲 Bilateral integration
🚲 Motor planning
🚲 Body awareness

Riding a trike/bike is a great way to work on so many skills as well as providing your kiddo with great propriocetive and vestibular input.

Does your child have difficulty coordinating pushing the pedals? Place different stickers on your kiddos shoes (ex: blue sticker on one foot and red on the other). Tell them to push down with red, then blue, then red, etc.

Does your child have difficulty learning to ride a bike without training wheels? Take the wheels off and make your own balance bike! Have you kiddo practice sitting on the bike and pushing off with his/her feet. This will help them get comfortable sitting and balancing on the bike while it is moving.

Make it a game! See if they can keep their feet off the ground for more seconds each time. 👍🏻

Does your child have difficulty with bike riding and needs more support and encouragement? Stay tuned for more information coming this week about our Ride with Me bike riding group for summer 2026! ☀️

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02/26/2026

For our next Learning with WPOT post, we’re talking all about self care skills! 🍴🪥👚🚽 Scroll through to learn more about what types of self care skills there are, difficulties to look out for and self-care milestones for every age!

01/20/2026

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Tong games are a classic but effective way to work on so many amazing skills such as:

🖐️ Handedness
🖐️ Grasping skills
🖐️ Hand strength and endurance
🖐️ Crossing midline
🖐️ Visual-motor skills

Tong games are a great way to practice these skills in a fun and playful way! It switches things up from having your kid color, draw and write letters. ✏️

Is your kid having trouble using just three fingers? No problem! Place two stickers at the bottom of one side of the tongs and one sticker on the bottom of the other. This provides them with a visual cue 👁️ of where to place their fingers.

Level ⬆️: Place the pieces on one side of your kids body and place the container on the other. This helps your kiddo practice crossing their midline to place the items into the container. You can make this even harder by placing the container at shoulder level. Now your child needs to reach above gravity to place it in. 🤩

Practice core strength too by completing these games in a cross-legged position or on your belly! 💪🏻 If your kiddo is sitting cross-legged, have them hold on to the tongs with one hand and container with the other. This way they only use their belly muscles to sit up instead of using one hand to prop themselves up.

Make it active 🏃‍♂️! Place all the pieces on one side of the room and the container on the other. Now you have an obstacle course! Your child can do an animal walk to the pieces and then any movement back to put them in the container. This also gives your child more repetitions to practice assuming that tripod grasp! 👌🏻

These feed the animal games come in three varieties (dog, bunny and monkey). 🐶 🐰 🐵 Avalanche Fruit Stand, the Super Sorting Pie, and Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel are also some of our favorite tong games.

12/19/2025

Happy holidays from all of us at WPSOT! We’ve had the best week celebrating our winter wonderland decorations and activities with our kids and seeing everyone in their pjs. Our annual office potluck and secret Santa were the perfect end to the week! 🍪 🎁 ❄️

12/09/2025

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Books, books and more books! 📕 We could not recommend books enough! Books are amazing for kids of ALL AGES and works on so many skills:

📚 Grasping skills to turn the page
📚 Bilateral integration
📚 Finger isolation when pointing at pictures
📚 Visual scanning skills
📚 Imagination, creativity and attention

Work on strengthening the belly and eye muscles by having your kiddo read while lying on his/her belly.

Does your kiddo need some heavy work? Have your kiddo lift and carry books from one part of the room to a cozy corner or bed to read. Have them carry it back! 💪🏻

Does your kiddo need movement breaks? Have your kiddo get one book, then do an animal walk, jump, or run across the room, read the book, and then do another movement back. Make it into an obstacle course! 🏃‍♂️

Reading can be a great activity to work on sharing, turn taking and social skills. Have an older sibling read a book to a younger sibling. Or have kids take turns being the reader. Some of our favorite books are pictured above to also work on self-regulation, frustration tolerance and social skills.

Reading is a great calming activity to add into a bedtime routine to calm your kiddos sensory system and get them ready for bed! 😴

12/08/2025

Join us next week for some winter fun! ❄️ Wear your PJs to Speech and OT and get ready for some fun winter activities! ⛄️

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11/28/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from our families to yours! We are so grateful for the best work family and community. Hope everyone had a great day! 🦃 🍂

11/18/2025

Meet Deanna! Deanna is WPOT’s newest addition to our team and we’re so excited to have her! One of our clients had a great time interviewing her. Here’s what he found out:

📸 Photography is one of her favorite hobbies. She loves to take pictures of architecture and nature. 🏙️ 🍂
🌎 If Deanna was not an OT, she would be a world traveler, trying new things and food!
☀️ Her favorite weather is sunny!
🗣️ She loves working with kids, collaborating with the speech therapists at WPST and being creative! 🧠
🚶‍♀️ Outside of work she loves going on walks, especially with her dog 🐶, and trying new restaurants. 🍴

11/11/2025

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Dot markers are a simple toy to have at home and on the go that target so many great skills

🖍Grasping skills
🖍 Early in-hand manipulation skills of screwing and unscrewing caps
🖍 Bilateral integration
🖍 Pre-writing skills
🖍 Visual motor skills
🖍 Proprioceptive input

Dot markers are a great way to introduce your kiddos to drawing and begin working on those grasping skills.

Pro tip: place the paper on a vertical surface to work on upper body strengthening, endurance, bilateral integration and visual motor skills.

Level 🆙 those fine motor skills and tape the dot markers onto the table with painters tape. Your kiddo will need to pinch and peel the tape off to get the marker! 🤏🏻

Wanna add gross motor skills and increase your child’s attention?! Place the markers on one side of the room and the paper on another. Every time your child goes through the obstacle course they need to get a new marker to color in the paper.

Want to work on color recognition and visual perceptual skills? Draw circles of different colors on a piece of paper. Have your child match the dot marker to the colored circles and place a dot in each color that matches! This is a great way to work on visual scanning skills as well! 👀

AND don’t forget to follow for the best FREE dot marker printable worksheets ever! They have worksheets for every season and holiday imaginable! ❄️ ☀️ 🍎 🌲

10/30/2025

A huge congratulations to our two OT brides, Sophie and Laura, who got married this month! 💍 💕 We had so much fun celebrating them with our own flower bar. 💐

10/14/2025

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Baby water play mats are such a great toy to work on so many great skills at an early age! These mats work on

💧 Processing tactile information
💧 Upper body and hand strengthening
💧 Proprioceptive input
💧 Tummy time
💧 Ocular motor skills like tracking
💧 Imitation of body motions

Is your kiddo having difficulty with tummy time? This is a GREAT toy to make tummy time motivating and engaging.

Is your kiddo sensitive to messy play and tactile input? This is a great first step to desensitizing them. They can explore the water without the mess!

Level ⬆️: Have your baby practice rolling on the mat. They can notice how the water feels below them. This will increase the proprioceptive input they get while rolling and help with body awareness.

Have an older kid? Place this mat on a vertical surface, for example a wall with painters tape, and play with it that way. Working against gravity will help strengthen their upper body.

Practice tapping on the mat in various rhythms and ways and have your baby imitate you. This is a precursor to communication skills!

Practice those 👁 skills by playing I-spy with older kids and trying to locate different toys in the water.

Address

65 Walnut Street
Wellesley, MA
02481

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 6:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 6:30pm
Thursday	9am - 6:30pm
Friday	9am - 6:30pm

Website

http://www.wellesleyot.com/

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