SPOTS Rockland OT

SPOTS Rockland OT is a pediatric occupational therapy practice in Orangeburg, NY, serving children from toddlers through teens. The practice offers individual occupational therapy, evaluations, and consultative services available to parents, teachers, schools, and other professionals, as well as school partnerships. Their work focuses on sensory processing, sensory emotional regulation, attention and executive functioning, play skills, social skills, fine and gross motor development, interoceptive awareness, reflex integration, self-help skills, and handwriting. SPOTS Rockland OT holds a rating of 5.00 based on customer reviews.

Evaluations at the practice may include standardized testing in sensory processing, fine and gross motor proficiency, visual perceptual and visual motor skills, and handwriting, along with clinical observations, developmental history, parent consultation, and consultation with the child's teacher or team members. Based on evaluation findings, the therapists design individualized treatment plans and build sessions around each child's strengths and interests, while working closely with families, teachers, and other professionals. Parent training and team consultations are built into ongoing care. Treatment specialty areas include the Sensory Emotional Engagement Model, the Safe and Sound Protocol, Therapeutic Listening, reflex integration, and Dynamic Movement Intervention at Level B.

The practice was founded and is directed by Amy Hagopian, OTR/L, a graduate of the University of Hartford with a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy and a minor in Psychology. Amy brings more than 20 years of experience and has received training through the STAR Institute, the Ackerman Institute for the Family, Therapeutic Listening, Integrated Listening Systems, Neuro-Developmental Treatment, and Handwriting Without Tears, among other programs. She began her career in a private school serving multi-disabled students from toddlers through teens and has worked across sensory gyms, schools, and other settings.

The office sits on Dutch Hill Road, about 0.1 miles from the Palisades Interstate Parkway and roughly 0.2 miles from Orangeburg Road, Orangetown Town Hall, and the Town of Orangetown government offices. Tappan Zee High School is about 0.4 miles away, and the Orangeburg Public Library is within 0.6 miles.

Twenty years of pediatric specialization under a single director is a depth of experience families in Orangeburg and the surrounding Rockland County communities can rely on for individualized sensory and motor care.