At Steps Ahead Occupational Therapy we offer Specialized Pediatric Occupational Therapy Services in your home, school, community, or virtually! We have the desire to see children have the best opportunity to develop and succeed! Steps Ahead OT believes in a team approach and working with the families so the individual child can reach their true potential.
We provide services in Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Manatee counties, as well as, the Military community stationed at MacDill Air Force Base.
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A child’s “occupation” is playing. Children need play in order to grow and develop age-appropriate skills and meet their developmental milestones. Occupational therapy uses play as a central treatment tool to help children improve skills, increase neuroplasticity of the brain, and develop greater daily independence. The goal of a pediatric occupational therapist is to help each child participate in activities of daily life, such as playing, dressing and caring for themselves, engaging with others, helping around the house, and participating in school and community activities.
Parents
“Working with Michelle has been a wonderful experience. We can see so much improvement with our son. Within the first month, he was doing activities that he previously struggled with a lot. Michelle has been patient and loving to him. We couldn’t ask for a more wonderful first-time experience. The entire experience has us looking for the same qualities in other therapists. She is definitely one in a million.”
Parent
“I am forever grateful that we found Michelle. She was the first therapist to make a positive difference in my son’s development, and the first one to make me feel affirmed and validated as a parent. We had seen a number of therapists before, but only Michelle took the time to get to know my son fully and meet him where he was. On our first visit, I could immediately tell she…
Parents
“We have had the pleasure of working with Michelle as our 11-month-old daughter Eliza’s Occupational Therapist since Eliza was around 5 months old. Eliza was born with a genetic disorder resulting in brain anomalies and cortical visual impairment. When we began working with Michelle, Eliza had little purposeful movement and would…
