Developing gross motor skills
Occupational
Therapy
Assessment & Treatment
Kids OT Calgary (Renée Shilmover) has 25 years of expertise working with children with varying degrees of difficulty. Kids OT Calgary offers standardized assessments, treatment and consultation.
Assessment
Kids OT Calgary specializes in comprehensive occupational therapy assessments tailored to your child's age, strengths, and areas of challenge. Assessment approaches vary depending on developmental stage and functional concerns.
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Pre-school & Early Childhood Assessments
Occupational therapy assessments may include a daycare or preschool observation, play-based assessment, and/or parent consultation focussing on toileting, self-care skills, fine motor development, sensory processing, and daily routines.
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Kindergarten & School-Age Assessments
Kindergarten and school-age occupational therapy assessments are comprehensive and standardized. Assessments may include evaluation of fine motor skills, visual-motor integration, motor coordination, sensory processing, and toileting skills, with a strong emphasis on functional skills that support participation at home, at school, and in daily routines.
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Printing Assessments
As a printing specialist, Renée provides in-depth writing assessments that identify strengths and challenges in fine motor skills, visual motor coordination, motor planning, and letter formation and legibility. Dysgraphia assessments offered.
Assessments are typically completed over approximately two hours. Following the assessment, parents receive a detailed occupational therapy report outlying results, the child strengths and challenges, and individualized goals and practical recommendations for home and school. Reports may also provide helpful information for physicians or educators regarding sensory and coordination needs.
No referral is required.
Treatment
Kids OT Calgary offers private, one-to-one occupational therapy treatment sessions tailored to each child's individual needs. In addition to direct therapy, families receive home programming and education to support skill development outside of sessions.
As a printing specialist with over 20 years of experience working within the school system, Renée has extensive knowledge of school curricula and classroom expectations. Kids OT Calgary creates individualized treatment plans for every child and continually adapts strategies based on the child's strengths, challenges, sensory needs, and response to therapy.
Kids OT Calgary values one-to-one sessions because they allow Renée to bring her creativity, clinical expertise, and depth of experience into each session- designing engaging, meaningful activities to help children achieve their occupational therapy goals and build skills that carryover into home and school environments.
Fees
Please contact Kids OT Calgary for specific costs.
Occupational Therapy services are available for parents paying privately. Parents paying privately for assessment or therapy services may be covered under work group insurance plans, benefit plans, or through health spending accounts. Fees paid for Occupational Therapy services may also be used as a tax deduction under medical expenses by Revenue Canada.
