ABOUT
Allyson Bates, OTD, OTR/L, SWC
Occupational Therapist, Specialist in
Pediatric Feeding and Development
Allyson Bates is a mother and Doctor of Occupational Therapy who is passionate about supporting family health and wellness. Allyson has over 10 years of experience working with the pediatric population as a former elementary school teacher and practicing occupational therapist. She specializes in pediatric feeding and development and is working towards certification in maternal mental health.
Allyson is an advocate for child-led learning through nature-based play. She utilizes the outdoor environment and specialized nature-based activities to support children in building skills needed for essential daily living activities and their main occupation of play. Allyson believes that every child should be allowed the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive in their own unique way. She focuses on creating rich sensory experiences for families to connect with nature and develop community. She provides ongoing family education to support child development, balanced daily routines and successful mealtimes.
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SERVICES
Feeding Therapy
Feeding therapy can help your child develop safe and healthy feeding skills. Areas that can be addressed include: swallowing dysfunction, oral motor skills, food/texture progressions, self-feeding, picky eating, challenging mealtime behaviors.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy includes working on skill development in various areas to increase your child's participation in meaningful daily living activities.Some examples include: Eating, dressing, bathing, grooming, play, and navigating their environment
Nature-Based Play Group
Child-led nature-based activities are designed to support gross motor, fine motor, sensory and social emotional development in a multi-aged play environment. ​
TESTIMONIALS
L. W.
"Our son has torticollis, severe plagiocephely, and lip and tongue ties, so he sees multiple specialists -- Allyson is the most important. She doesn't look at his development in a vacuum; she is always thinking of ways to support and improve our daily life as a family. When you're a FTM, it can be scary to let doctors work on your child. Allyson is so confident and gentle with him -- he LOVES his sessions with her (and so do we)!
J. R.
"If we added up all our doctors and multipled them by 20, they wouldn't have half as much love, knowledge or skill as Allyson has in her right pinky!"
C. H.
"Allyson is AMAZING!!! She is definitely a wealth of knowledge and experience. Can't say enough good things about her! She is so comfortable with low tone and knows how to push my son within reason, it is an amazing process to see. His core strength and stamina are so much better and his posture is more upright because of his improved strength."