Child-Centered Therapy

Committed to helping our clients develop and build skills for a lifetime.

Welcome to Seaside Therapies, Occupational Therapy for Children and Adolescents

We are a private Occupational Therapy practice offering a range of services including consultation, direct services, and standardized assessments for individuals with neurological, developmental, physical or intellectual disabilities.  At Seaside Therapies, we adhere to the highest standards of professionalism and confidentiality.  Through our commitment to child-centered services, we are able to help our clients develop and build skills for a lifetime.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Evaluations & Assessment Photo

EVALUATIONS & ASSESSMENTS

CONSULTATION SERVICES

Child doing Occupational Therapy

How to help determine if your child can benefit from
Occupational Therapy Services

Smiing Children

Occupational Therapy (OT) helps children learn the skills they need to function within their home, school, and community environments.  OT focuses on improving your child’s school readiness skills, such as handwriting, cutting and drawing, using school tools and materials.  OT helps your child learn to dribble a ball, gain motor skills to play outside with friends.  OT helps a child learn to hold a spoon, tie their shoes and get dressed for more independence.  OT can help a child learn self-regulation strategies to decrease anxieties, defensiveness, and behavioral over-reactions.

Getting Started

1. Complete the Seaside Therapies inquiry form online

2. Seaside Therapies will contact you to discuss your current concerns and schedule an evaluation

3. An Occupational Therapy evaluation report will be completed and sent to families 

Lori M. Loughlin, OTR/L

Lori Loughlin is the owner of Seaside Therapies. She has been working in the field of Occupational Therapy since 1998 specializing in the area of pediatrics since 2003. After graduating from Quinnipiac University in 1998 with a Post Baccalaureate Certificate Degree in Occupational Therapy, she spent the next 6 years working on acute care and ICU units at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Mrs. Loughlin has worked extensively in the inpatient, outpatient clinical and public school settings with children on the development of:

  • Core body strengthening

  • Balance

  • Motor coordination

  • Fine motor skills

  • Visual-motor skills

  • Visual perception skills

  • Daily life skills (clothing management, meal preparation, money management, leisure skills, sport motor coordination skills)

  • Hand skills

  • Self-care skills (dressing, hygiene, grooming, feeding, etc)

  • Sensory processing and sensory-motor regulation skills

  • Range of Motion

  • Handwriting

  • Executive Functioning skills (life and school based skills for organization, time management, working memory )

  • Motor Planning and Motor Execution skills

  • Cognitive Development skills

Seaside Therapies is here to help you and your child gain the skills they need for life successes and independence! 

Please contact us for more information on how we can help work with your child and family.