Anaheim Hills Pediatric Therapy, Inc.

10/17/2025

🎃 Halloween Occupational Therapy Activity You Can Try at Home! 👻
What You’ll Need:
One pumpkin
Carving utensils (adults only!)
A bowl
A spoon
Pumpkin carving isn’t just fun — it’s a great occupational therapy activity that supports multiple skill areas for children:
🖐️ Sensory Processing (Tactile & Olfactory):
Exploring the inside of a pumpkin provides rich sensory input! Children can work on tolerating and engaging with different textures (slimy, smooth, rough) and scents in a playful, non-threatening way. This helps with sensory regulation and desensitization.
🥄 Feeding & Oral Sensory Exploration:
Exposure to new foods through play helps promote positive food experiences. Scooping out pumpkin seeds and pulp can encourage acceptance of varied textures. You can even roast the seeds afterward to support food exploration and comfort with new tastes.
✋ Fine Motor & Bilateral Coordination:
Scooping, pulling, and sorting seeds work on hand strength, grasp, and bilateral coordination. Have your child match and place the pumpkin’s “face” pieces (eyes, nose, mouth) to target visual-motor integration and problem-solving skills.
💬 Bonus:
This activity also builds attention, sequencing, and following directions — all while creating lasting family memories! 🎃

10/13/2025

08/20/2025

Do you use a visual schedule? Please share it with us by tagging us ! You can also DM us your schedule too! There are so many ways to stay organized, especially with this new school year coming up or already started! Let us know if this was helpful!

08/11/2025

Good morning! Here is an informative post about Occupational Therapy. Occupational therapy focuses on helping you and your child develop the skills needed to participate in every day living!

If you receive OT, you may be aware of activities of daily living such as getting dressed, hygiene like brushing your hair, and making sure your child can eat a balanced diet! But, did you know Occupational Therapists can help you with so much more? And, in so many different settings!

Occupational therapy practitioners view everyone receiving services through a holistic lens. What happens during your session doesn’t stop there; we do our best to consider your daily routines, habits, rituals, and cultural contexts as part of the treatment plan. And, you will always be the most important collaborator of the plan while it is being written!

Occupational therapy practitioners work with you to determine what is important to you, and how you can develop, restore, or maintain the skills you need to be as independent and dignified in your everyday life to the best of our abilities.

Let us know if you have any questions!

02/11/2025

Valentine’s art & craft at AHPT but let’s make it food edition 🩷❤️🧡💛💜💙🩵💚

01/24/2025

Nothing grabs our attention better than a cute baby!

We have intensive openings for 2025! Research shows that the delivery model of 3 hours daily for several weeks is the most effective way to gain strength, functional skills, improve balance and endurance for our kiddos especially with:
👉 Cerebral Palsy
👉 Hypotonia
👉 Neuromuscular diagnosis
👉 Genetic Syndromes (i.e Down Syndrome)
👉 Brain injuries

Give us a call with any questions or to schedule your child’s intensive with an immmediate opening in February!

01/16/2025

Good morning! Here’s a look back on yesterday’s Bug Buddies craft with Maddie, Victor, and Ethan! Since it was National Hat Day, we decided to use our fine-motor skills to decorate, cut, and wear some cool hats! 🎩 🧙 🤠

What should we make for our next get together?

12/25/2024

Sharing wishes from all of us to all of you for a joy filled Christmas Day.

Take time to enjoy the mess of your home today from ripped wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, stocking stuffers, toys, baking and cooking to tinsel falling from the tree.

Each year this day will look different as your children get older and don’t hurry through to clean up today. Savor in the aroma of sensory experiences today.

Merry Christmas from AHPT staff 🎄🙏🎁❄️☃️🎈