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What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy focuses on addressing a child’s ability to engage in everyday activities, including motor skills, focus, and peer socialization. These skills can be hindered if they experience disruptions in their sensory processing. Disruption in the normal processing of sensory information can result in any of the following:
- Avoids getting messy or touching objects with certain textures
- Doesn’t seem to notice mess on face or hands
- Decreased or increased sensitivity to pain
- Difficulty staying on task
- Walks on his/her toes
- Is bothered by the touch of others or touches others to an irritating degree
- Distracted by sounds or lights that others may not notice
- Tantrums are easily triggered by environmental stimuli
- Fear of movement or frequently in motion
- Hypersensitive to bright lights or certain sounds
How does Occupational Therapy at the Clubhouse work?
At the Clubhouse, pediatric occupational therapy starts with a personalized evaluation to understand your child’s strengths and challenges. From there, we create a custom treatment plan that helps build essential skills for everyday life at home, school, and in the community, focusing on areas like motor coordination, sensory processing, and daily routines.
Therapy takes place in our clinic and may also include support at home or school. We believe in close collaboration with teachers and caregivers to make sure strategies are consistent across all settings.
Proudly serving Chicago, IL and surrounding suburbs, our goal is to help children build independence, confidence, and lasting progress in everyday life.
Interested in learning more?
Occupational Therapy can address:
- Independent Daily Living
- Feeding Aversions
- Sensory Processing
- Strength, Coordination, & Fine Motor Skills
- Attention Span & Focus
Benefits of Occupational Therapy
- Improved motor skills
- Better coordination
- Enhanced sensory processing
- Increased independence
- Greater confidence
- Improved daily living skills
- Better focus and attention
Areas We Serve
- Downers Grove
- North Mayfair
- Westmont
- Clarendon Hills
- Lisle
- Hinsdale
- Oakbrook Terrace
- Darien
- Albany Park
- Edgebrook
- Forest Glen
- Jefferson Park
Who We Serve
Our pediatric occupational therapy services support toddlers, preschoolers, school-age children, and adolescents who may need extra help navigating daily life. Whether your child is just beginning to explore the world or preparing for more independence at school or home, we tailor our care to meet them where they are developmentally.
We work with children facing challenges like fine and gross motor delays, sensory processing issues, handwriting difficulties, and attention or regulation needs. Our therapists also support children with autism, Down syndrome, and other developmental conditions.
Therapeutic Techniques
Our occupational therapists use evidence-based strategies to help children gain independence and confidence in everyday tasks. Each approach is personalized to support real-world skill development in a fun, engaging environment.
Modeling and Imitation
Therapists demonstrate motor, self-care, and daily living skills so children can observe and practice. This approach builds a strong foundation for learning new routines and physical tasks.
Prompting
We guide children through tasks with prompts, then gradually fade that support to promote independence. This technique is commonly used in coordination with ABA therapy to reinforce self-directed behavior.
Generalization Strategies
We help children transfer their skills across everyday environments like home, school, and the community. This ensures therapy progress turns into meaningful, lasting change.
Visual Supports
Visual aids, sensory tools, and adaptive equipment help children stay engaged and participate fully in therapy. These tools are especially helpful for children working on feeding-related challenges and are often used alongside feeding and oral-motor therapy.
Sensory Integration Activities
Play is used as a powerful tool to improve coordination, focus, and sensory regulation. These activities are tailored to each child’s needs and can align with goals also targeted in speech therapy.
Our Step-by-Step Occupational Therapy Model
Our occupational therapy program is built to meet each child’s unique needs and goals. From the first evaluation to every session after, we focus on meaningful progress that supports long-term growth.
1- Initial Assessment
We begin with a full occupational therapy assessment to understand how your child moves, learns, and completes tasks. This helps us decide where to focus therapy and how to support progress.
2- Creating Your Child’s Therapy Plan
After the evaluation, we design a custom plan with clear goals based on your child’s needs and personality. The plan may include sensory strategies, task adjustments, and home routines. We also build in activities that support visual-motor coordination skills in a fun and meaningful way.
3- Choosing the Right Schedule
Therapy sessions are scheduled based on what works best for your child, usually one to three times a week for 30 to 60 minutes. We may also suggest short home activities to help strengthen skills between visits.
4- Hands-on Learning in Every Session
Each session includes guided activities like sensory integration activities, movement games, and fine motor practice. We also work on daily routines to support self-care and daily living skills. Everything is personalized to help your child stay engaged and make steady progress.
5- Tracking Growth and Making Changes
We keep detailed notes and use simple checklists to support ongoing progress monitoring. This helps us know when your child is ready to move forward or when we need to adjust the plan.
6- Caregiver Coaching
We coach parents and caregivers on simple strategies that fit into daily life. We may also introduce adaptive tool training to help your child succeed at home, school, or in the community.
What People Say About Us
Over 95% of families leave us a 5-star review on Google! See what our families said about their experience at the Clubhouse:
My daughter’s behavior progress and language development has been extraordinary with the guidance of the wonderful staff at Communication Clubhouse.
I’ve been with Communication Clubhouse since my Son was 18 months old. Kyle is now 11 yrs old. He receives Speech, Occupational and ABA therapy in the Downers Grove office. I’ve had nothing but great experiences with this office. Honestly this is his 2nd home. Kyle has advanced so much because of them. I’m so appreciative to Communication Clubhouse.
The team at Communication Clubhouse have made a huge impact for our daughter and son. Both have learning disabilities and have benefited from the reading therapy, behavior therapy and occupational therapy.
P gives Olivia and Mary two thumbs up – and her parents give even more gratitude for the patience, persistence and support. Thanks to everyone at CC for your work!
When our daughter graduated from EI, we knew we wanted to stay with our OT and started attending sessions in the clinic. Sarah had a huge impact on the way we parent and how we support our daughter’s sensory needs. We loved her so much, and when she moved out of town, we were nervous about transitioning to a new OT. But Brianne is fantastic and it was a smooth transition. Our daughter had her sessions in the gym, which is an amazing space with so many different ways for children to work on their therapy goals. The space combined with Brianne’s creativity resulted in such fantastic growth that our daughter has since graduated from OT. We feel very grateful for the role Communication Clubhouse has played in our daughter’s development, and it is wonderful knowing that we have such a great place at our disposal should our daughter need additional OT services in the future.
The Clubhouse has been an incredible resource for our family! Our son came into the center only speaking a few words and is now speaking full sentences, labeling his emotions and having conversations! The sessions have been life changing and we couldn’t be more grateful of the dedication, time and grace that Ms. Megan has put in with our son! Thank you!
A wonderful place with caring staff and a nurturing environment! Two of my sons have gone here now and they both have shown remarkable improvement! My middle son went from barely speaking at all to now speaking full sentences. My oldest son started saying the “s” sound that he struggled with after just a couple sessions! They love coming here because they make it so much fun for kids that they don’t even realize they’re learning. Thank you so much!
We have been working with therapists from The Clubhouse since my twins were 18 months old and in early intervention. We then started going to The Clubhouse after they aged out of EI and have been there ever since for multiple types of therapy. My twins are almost 10. We love the therapists, office staff, program offerings, and schedule availability. This place is built for kids, they get it. I feel so grateful to have connected with this group of caring humans. They have made a huge impact for my kids and have helped them group tremendously! I would highly recommend The Clubhouse to anyone looking for pediatric therapy!
Our son has been going to Communication Clubhouse for six years and we love it. Wonderful people!!
Our Insurance Providers
The Clubhouse works with families with all major insurance coverage. We are proudly an in-network provider for Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, and Medicaid. While we are not in-network with other insurance companies, we can provide the necessary documentation to submit for reimbursement to your insurance company.
