Occupational Therapy

Our pediatric occupational therapists work with children and their families to help develop skills in the following areas: play skills, fine motor skills (how our hands and fingers work to accomplish a task), and personal or self care skills. Treatment techniques promote function and engagement in meaningful occupations, remediate disability, and provide support to families. The strategies our pediatric occupational therapists may use include working on hand/finger/arm strength, trunk strength and stability, practice of specific self care tasks, and overall sensory processing. Play is used as a way to address desired skills and to encourage the child to be active participants in their therapy sessions.

Who are your therapists?

Myra Magluyan, MA, OTR/L received her Master's degree in Occupational Therapy from University of Southern California and her Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology and Adapted Physical Education from CSU Long Beach. She has been working with children with disabilities for the last 10 years, and spent 6 of those years working on behavior modification and inclusion of children with autism into the general education environment, within the context of ABA programs. She has taking advanced courses in the Handwriting Without Tears program, Sensory Integration theory, Infant handling based on NDT principles, and Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing. Participation and teaching in martial arts is a major hobby of hers, and s he plans to continue this for as long as she can.

Tera Timmons, OTR/L attended the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA and has been an occupational therapist since April of 2001. She has worked in Georgia, Washington, and California and has experience working with clients in a variety of settings and across the lifespan. She enjoys working with children and their families to help them become more independent and involved in everyday activities that have been difficult for them. She has had additional training in feeding, brain injuries, sensory integration, managing difficult behaviors, visual perceptual dysfunction, IDEA, family-centered early intervention, and physical agent modalities. When not working, Tera enjoys spending time with her husband and three young children, being outside, and various craft activities.