What is EC Occupational Therapy?
EC Occupational Therapy, EC OT, offers occupational therapy services for children and families in Ancaster, Dundas and Caledonia. We support children aged 3-20 with diverse skills, goals, and needs. Our approach priorities the use of natural environments and the outdoors to help your family and child to achieve their goals.
Our Values
At EC OT we value creating a safe, welcoming and fun environment where kids and families of all backgrounds, abilities and needs can thrive. Our occupational therapy services are based on the foundational principals of:
(1) Family centred care
(2) Utilization of the therapeutic benefits of nature
(3) Proactive and preventative therapy and skill building
Why nature?
Most of our services surround being in nature and the outdoors, this is because we firmly believe that anything that would be addressed in a typical occupational therapy session can be completed in nature! Not only is this a way to make therapy fun, nature can be an amazing environment for skill building and has inherent benefits that an indoor setting cannot provide. These include:
A sensory-safe, often regulating and enriching environment for children with sensory sensitivities
Can naturally promote increased attention and focus through Attention Restoration
Decreased feelings of stress, anxiety and depression and increase feelings of calmness
A naturally challenging environment to work on skill development, risky play, problem solving, resilience and cooperation
Biological benefits including fresh air, Vitamin D
Locations
Dundas
Churchill Park, 167 Cline Ave N, Hamilton, ON L8S 4C1
Caledonia
Williamson Woods Park, 306 Orkney St W, Caledonia, ON N3W 1A6
* Services may be available in client’s homes in Caledonia, service fee may apply
Ancaster
Morgan Firestone Arena, 385 Jerseyville Rd W, Ancaster, ON L9G 3L5
