OT Services

Occupational therapy services are delivered in a variety of ways at the elementary school level.

Building Level Services

Building level services are occupational therapy services offered to children with mild difficulties in visual motor, visual spatial, and or fine motor skills. The service can range from once a month to six times per month. Sessions are 30 minutes in length. This type of service is not a mandated service and is offered to students on an intervention level. This service is available depending on the number of mandated students there are in the school during the year.

Related Services

Related occupational therapy services are provided to students who have gone through the Committee on Special Education and were identified in needing specific occupational therapy services in order to benefit from the curriculum. Therapy is provided in the areas of visual motor, visual spatial, and fine motor skills. For more information on special education services, please visit the Lakeland Special Education web page.

3 to 1 Model

Services are provided through our 3 to 1 model, where students receive direct services for a three week period, followed by one week of indirect services. During the week(s) of indirect services, the therapist will have the opportunity to observe/consult in the classroom, participate in grade level meetings to provide teachers with strategies to use within the classroom to assist students in generalizing skills developed during therapy sessions. This time will also be used to schedule missed sessions due to attendance at meetings.