Cultivate Rehabilitation, LLC

11/06/2025

Working on hand eye coordination, visual attention, and functional communication through ball skills and horses of course 🐴⚾⚽🏈🏀

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! Enjoy Lucy, Patrick, Ellie and Marge wearing hats!

10/30/2025

10/27/2025

Owner and Occupational Therapist is featured on the National Board of Occupational Therapy's page for World OT Day 🥰🍃🍂🌿🍁🐴

Today we join the global OT community in celebrating World Occupational Therapy Day!
This year’s theme, “Occupational Therapy in Action,” highlights the incredible work of OT practitioners worldwide who empower individuals to engage in meaningful activities and participate fully in life.

World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT)

10/27/2025

Happy World OT Day, friends! OT is all about the active efforts of occupational therapy providers across the world who engage people in meaningful activities and participation.

10/21/2025

Come out this Saturday to have some fun and support Xceptional Opportunities, which helps our neighbors with disabilities find good jobs! Hope to see you there!

10/21/2025

Occupational Therapy does this!

10/17/2025

STAFF SPOTLIGHT:

Hi!
My name is Zoe and I’m excited to be stepping into the hippo therapy world for the first time. I’ve been leading and helping with recreational and therapeutic riding lessons for as long as can remember. I started riding when I was four and haven’t looked back since! I practically lived at the barn helping with everything that needed to be done and riding anything I could. I recently got my first pony, Hip Hop! She’s very sweet and will definitely check your pockets for treats! Excited to continue sharing my love and fascination of these amazing creatures!

10/07/2025

NEUROLOGICAL THRESHOLDS!

“the nervous system’s responsiveness to stimuli”

How does a child respond to the world around them? Sights? Sounds? Touch? Smells? Movement? Body position? Taste?

A low threshold means that a low amount or intensity of stimuli is needed as the nervous system is easily activated for awareness and response. A child is described as hyperresponsive.

A high threshold means more intense stimuli is needed before the nervous system responds. A child is described as hyporesponsive.

Sensitization is the process that enhances the awareness of important stimuli, screening anticipated harm or danger in the environment while engaged in play or learning. We need to be able to respond quickly to risky situations that could hurt us.

Habituation is the process of recognising familiar stimuli that does not require further attention, allowing focused attention of the task at hand without becoming distracted, agitated or inattentive. There is comfort and security found in familiar sights, sounds, people, routines, textures, schedules and expectations that reassure us.

Modulation is the balance of activation needed so that a child can be alert to selected information while screening out other stimuli in order for functional participation in everyday life. The child selects the appropriate responses to environmental cues.

The children we see for occupational therapy may have difficulty processing sensory information … eg. alert to sensory information that interferes with tasks, unaware of sensory information, perceives something as dangerous when it isn’t, can’t get enough sensory information.

I’m sharing more about sensory processing and sensory based activities this month on so make sure you take a look. In the meantime, don’t forget to grab your FREE ticket to the Sensory Summit Online Conference (Oct 27-29). Let me know if you want a link! 🔗