Sunny Day Therapy provides pediatric occupational therapy in Lexington, KY to help children build confidence, emotional regulation, sensory processing skills, executive functioning, motor coordination, handwriting, and independence in daily life. Our holistic, strengths-based approach supports the brain-body connection through play-based, nervous-system-informed care tailored to each child’s unique needs. We help children improve fine motor skills, core strength, attention, self-care, social participation, transitions, and school success while empowering families with practical strategies for home and community life.
Sensory Processing & Sensory Integration Therapy
Our OT doctors help children better understand and respond to the sensory information their bodies and environments provide. Our pediatric therapy supports regulation, attention, transitions, emotional responses, body awareness, and participation in daily routines through play-based, nervous-system-informed activities tailored to each child’s unique sensory needs. Indeed, every occupational therapy plan is individualized — never cookie-cutter — and designed around each client’s sensory, emotional, motor, and executive functioning needs.
Emotional Regulation
Through supporting children in recognizing body signals, managing emotions, developing coping strategies, our pediatric occupational therapy helps you build confidence during challenging moments. Sunny Day Therapy’s pediatric therapy focuses on co-regulation, self-awareness, flexibility, frustration tolerance, and helping children feel safe, calm, connected, and successful in everyday life.
Executive Function & ADHD Support
By helping children strengthen focus, organization, planning, emotional control, impulse regulation, and task completion, children develop independence with daily routines. Pediatric occupational therapy provides practical strategies and supports that improve success at home, school, and in social environments while building confidence and self-esteem. Home exercise programs often include visual supports, environments, strategies, and structured systems to help client initiate, sustain focus, and complete tasks. Our OT doctors help clients get “unstuck” on negative behaviors through pediatric therapy that prioritizes human connection first and empowerment with tools and resources.
Fine Motor & Handwriting Therapy
Our OT Doctors supporting the development of hand strength, coordination, grasp patterns, visual motor integration, fine motor strength, and endurance needed for handwriting and everyday tasks. Thus, our occupational therapy helps children improve confidence and participation with writing, coloring, cutting, dressing, utensil use, and other fine motor activities. We help hands grow strong so you do not need to be concerned about weak grasp, weak hands, or poor writing.
Feeding Therapy
By Helping children develop positive experiences with eating, we support sensory, oral motor, and mealtime challenges. Our expert, evidence-based occupational therapy focuses on increasing comfort with foods, improving participation during meals, reducing stress around eating, and building healthy feeding routines for children and families. We help you have sensory strategies for picky eating as well as understand oral motor skills to improve strength and functional chewing during meal time.
Occupational Therapy for Diagnosis Support
Through our training and creative, we are prepared to develop occupational therapy plans for many conditions. Providing strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming support that helps neurodivergent children build regulation, daily living skills, sensory processing abilities, motor coordination, and participation in meaningful activities. Therapy honors each child’s unique way of experiencing and interacting with the world. We support many conditions including:
- Autism
- ADHD
- Dyslexia
- anxiety
- OCD
- PDA
- Motor Dyspraxia
- Dysgraphia
- Cerebral Palsy
- Tongue ties
- Decreased Muscle Tone
Visual Motor & Visual Perceptual Skills
In order to improve classroom performance and success in daily, we help children strengthen the visual processing and coordination skills needed for handwriting, reading readiness, puzzles, copying from the board, spatial awareness, attention to detail, and everyday learning activities. Therapy supports the connection between visual information and motor performance to improve confidence and participation at school and home.
Gross Motor Coordination & Core Strength
In addition, our occupational therapy helps children improve stability, confidence, movement efficiency, and overall functional participationSupporting the development of posture, balance, endurance, coordination, and body control needed for playground activities, sports, classroom participation, and daily routines empowers children. .
Motor Planning & Bilateral Coordination
Helping children improve the ability to plan, sequence, and coordinate movements during play, self-care tasks, school activities, and daily routines. Therapy supports smoother movement patterns, body awareness, coordination between both sides of the body, and increased confidence with physical tasks.
Reflex Integration & Retained Reflex Assessment
Using movement-based activities to support the integration of retained reflexes that may affect emotional regulation, sensory processing, posture, coordination, attention, handwriting, and motor development. Reflex therapy focuses on strengthening nervous system organization and improving participation in everyday activities.
Self-Care & Daily Living Skills
Helping children build independence and confidence with dressing, grooming, toileting, hygiene, feeding, sleep routines, and other activities of daily living. Thus, our pediatric occupational therapy provides practical strategies that support successful participation at home, school, and in community environments.
Social Skills & Peer Interaction
Supporting children in developing emotional awareness, flexibility, communication, self-regulation, and confidence during peer interactions and social situations. Therapy helps children strengthen relationship-building skills, cooperative play, problem-solving abilities, and successful participation in group environments.
School Readiness & Classroom Support
Helping children develop the sensory, motor, attention, executive functioning, and self-regulation skills needed for successful participation in school routines and learning environments. Therapy supports classroom engagement, transitions, independence, organization, handwriting, and confidence with academic tasks.
Anxiety, Coping Skills & Nervous System Regulation
Supporting children in understanding body signals, managing stress responses, building coping strategies, and improving emotional regulation through nervous-system-informed occupational therapy. Therapy helps children feel more calm, connected, safe, and confident during everyday challenges and transitions.
Adaptive Equipment & Environmental Modifications
Providing recommendations and support for adaptive equipment, sensory tools, seating, positioning, classroom strategies, and environmental modifications that improve participation, comfort, independence, and success during daily activities at home, school, and in the community.
Family-Centered Occupational Therapy
Partnering closely with families to provide individualized, strengths-based occupational therapy that supports each child’s unique developmental, sensory, emotional, and functional needs. Our occupational therapy includes education, home strategies, collaboration, and practical support to empower families and promote success across everyday environments.
Own the next chapter of your family’s story by starting pediatric occupational therapy.
Email admin@sunnydaytherapy.net to set up a phone call with one of our OT Doctors to learn more about pediatric occupational therapy at our Hamburg office or at partner schools in Lexington and Richmond.