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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

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.

09/30/2025

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Trampolines are a great way to get your kiddo moving and work on so many skills!

✨Proprioceptive input
✨Jumping skills
✨Leg strength and endurance
✨Balance
✨Bilateral integration

Does your child have trouble jumping? No problem! Stand on the trampoline and you jump! The input will help begin to facilitate the jumping motion for them and your kiddo will still get sensory input. Also, practice jumping off of the trampoline and other surfaces first.

Is your kiddo tired or fatigued and having difficulty focusing? 😴 Give then a jumping break! Jumping on the trampoline for even 3-5 minutes can significantly increase your child’s arousal level and attention. This is a great idea for a movement break.

Level up and use your 🧠! Work on listening and auditory processing skills. Choose a letter or number. Have your kiddo jump until they hear that number or letter and then stop. 🛑

Don’t have a trampoline? No problem! Have your kiddo jump on a mattress or couch (with supervision of course). 🛏

🌟Pro tip: pair jumping on the trampoline with heavy work and turn it into an obstacle course. Have your kiddo jump 10 times and then lift, pull, push or carry anything (chair, pillows, laundry basket, games, squeezes in pillow, etc.). Then repeat again! This will help balance the intensive proprioceptive input to ensure regulation and help organize your child’s sensory system instead of becoming dysregulated and over active.

09/23/2025

We had the best time celebrating WPSOT’s 15th anniversary last week! 🎉

Thank you to our families and clients for all the support over the last 15 years. We love our jobs and are so grateful for this amazing community. To the next 15 years! 🩵 💛

08/19/2025

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Honeybee tree is an oldie but a goodie at WPOT. This game works on so many great skills like:

🐝 Bilateral coordination
🐝 Pincer grasp
🐝 Frustration tolerance and emotional regulation
🐝 Teaching cause and effect
🐝 Socialization and turn taking
🐝 Impulsivity and executive functioning skills
🐝 Gradation of force

This is such a fun game to play as a whole family or with friends. Take turns pulling the leaves one at a time and see who can get the least number of bees to fall.

Level ⬆️ those fine motor skills and use tongs to pinch and pull the leaves out one at a time!

Work on integrating your child’s Moro primitive reflex with this game! Practice having calm reactions when lots of bees fall and not having a fight or flight response.

Work on emotional regulation skills. 😡😀 When all the bees fall is that a big deal or little deal? Use humor! Silly bees, you fell out of the tree. No big deal.. let’s play again!

07/29/2025

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!!

At WPOT we LOVE puzzles! We use them every day, all day! Puzzles target so many skills like:

🧩 Pincer grasp
🧩 Bilateral integration
🧩 Visual perceptual skills
🧩 Visual attention
🧩 Play schemes
🧩 Reflex integration

Make it active! 🏃‍♀️ Place the puzzle pieces on one side of the room and the puzzle on the other. Create your own obstacle to get the pieces and complete the puzzle.

Scatter the puzzle pieces around the room. Practice those visual discrimination and scanning skills as you complete a scavenger hunt to find the pieces. 👀

Is your kiddo scared of unexpected, loud sounds? Practice this skill with sound puzzles (vehicles, animals, etc.). Put in one puzzle piece at a time, have them take deep breathes or engage in heavy work to regulate themselves, and then try another piece. 👂

Lay on your belly and work on strengthening your head, neck and core muscles to complete the puzzle. 💪🏻

07/10/2025

For our next Learning with WPOT post, we’re talking all about postural control! 💪🏻 Scroll through to learn more about what postural control is, why it’s important, what decreased postural control looks like and alternative seating positions to help!

Please contact your child’s OT if you have any questions about their postural control skills.

06/17/2025

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Reusable sticker pads are a great toy to play with at home, on the go, or even on Zoom! Reusable sticker pads work on

😊 Bilateral integration
😊 Pincher grasp
😊 Independent play
😊 Pretend play/play schemes
😊Sharing and turn taking

Sticker pads are fun for kids of all ages! And the best part is.... once you’re done you can take them off and start all over again! 👏🏻

Play with a sibling or friend and create a scene together to work on social and pretend play skills!

On the go? Long car ride ahead? Have your child play with the reusable sticker pad while in the car. 🚗

Work on core and upper body strengthening by laying on your belly while playing. This is a great activity to complete with tummy time! 💪🏻

Work on independent play skills by following your child’s lead and have them explain what to do. Work on increasing their attention, confidence and play skills by allowing them to succeed and participate in something they can do entirely by themselves.

Have your child surprise you! Give them the sticker pad and have them create a design while you take a minute for yourself, cook, clean or do whatever you need to do. Have your child show you the final product when they’re done. Talk about immediate pride and satisfaction! 👍🏻

06/13/2025

Last night WPSOT celebrated another amazing school year at our 3rd annual parking lot tailgate! Looking forward to an awesome summer ahead with all our kids and families! ☀️

Grateful for this dedicated and hard-working work family and for their delicious bites 🧀

06/10/2025

Meet Sammy! Sammy was WPSOT’s first graduate student in 2017. She officially joined the team as an occupational therapist in 2020.

🖐️ Sammy loves getting messy with kids, making up songs for any activity, and helping kids explore new pieces of playground equipment.
🗣️ She loves collaborating with the speech therapists at WPST and learning from her OT colleagues
💃🏻 If Sammy wasn’t an OT she would be a dance teacher or Pilates instructor 💪🏻
🔵 Sammy’s favorite swing is the blue hot dog swing
🏖️ Sammy loves to try new restaurants and bake 🧁, plant 🪴, travel ✈️ , and be outdoors at playgrounds, hiking or at the beach with her family 👱🏼‍♂️👦🏻 🐕

05/16/2025

April was OT month! WPOT’s therapists and kids had a blast celebrating with activities all month long.

Kids voted weekly for their favorite equipment (go ball pit! 😊), practiced handwriting skills writing their favorite part of OT, and practiced coloring on the wall! 🌼

We are so grateful for our amazing team of OTs and all the kids and families we get to work with every day! 🎉

05/13/2025

Pogo jumpers are an easy and fun toy to have around the house. They are light-weight and don’t take up much space. Pogo jumpers work on:

🌟Balance
🌟 Motor planning
🌟 Strength and endurance
🌟 Coordination
🌟 Sensory input

Is your kid cooped up inside and you don’t know how to give them more movement? This is a simple way to do so! 💃🏻

Practice hopping in place and seeing how many consecutive jumps you can get. Make it social 👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏽! Practice turn taking. Have one person count while one jumps and then switch!

Are transitions challenging for your kiddo? No problem! Use the pogo jumper to jump from room to room to disguise the transition and make it fun! 🤩

Added bonus: Using the pogo jumper to transition between rooms gives your kiddo more opportunities for sensory input in their day. 👍🏻

Level ⬆️: Make it cognitive, work on auditory processing skills and use your 🧠! Choose a letter, word or number. Sing the alphabet, count numbers or tell a story. Your kiddo has to turn on their listening ears👂and stop when they hear that letter, word or number. 🛑

04/15/2025

TUESDAY TOY OF THE DAY!

Play doh is THE BEST toy that works on so many great skills

🔴 Fine motor strengthening
🟠 Tool manipulation
🟡 Bilateral integration
🟢 Pretend play/imagination
🔵 Social skills including sharing and turn taking
🟣 Messy play

Work on shape and letter identification by making different shapes and letters with the playdoh. Practice tracing the letters and shapes with your hands prior to writing and drawing them.

Let your imagination run wild! Make pretend food 🥞 and practice serving it to your family and friends. Make rocket ships 🚀 and fly around the house. The options are endless!

Practice utensil use by cutting the playdoh with a knife or scissors and spearing it with a fork. 🍴

Want more sensory input? Use playdoh’s fun factory pictured above! This is an amazing way to give a child more proprioceptive input, practice grasping skills and overall hand strength and endurance. 🖐️

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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