Occupational and Feeding Therapy for
Toddlers, Kids, Teens, and Young Adults.
Services Include
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Feeding Therapy
We address eating challenges including picky eating, pediatric feeding disorder, and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID).
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Sensory Processing
We address underlying sensory processing and modulation challenges that impact behavior regulation, focus, and participation in all aspects of life.
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Interoceptive Awareness
Interoception or the 8th sensory system connects us with our internal body state and emotion senses.
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Motor Skills
From gross motor to fine motor and everything in-between. Postural stability, midline orientation, hand skills, and visual motor skills impact everything from play, and tool use to oral motor skills to self-care.
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Adaptive and Durable Medical Equipment
Equipment consultations to add ease into daily routines.
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Pediatric OT Consultations
Parent/caregiver consultations.
Hello! I am Amy Cresswell MOT, OTR/L.
I have been a pediatric occupational therapist since graduating from Samuel Merritt College in 2003. My background includes a bachelors of science degree in Child Development and a foundational start as a pediatric OT at a children’s hospital. I sought out experience with a private sensory integration clinic in Southern California where I gained valuable experience, tools for my toolbox, and where I became a supervising therapist before meeting my husband and relocating to the Central Coast.
For the past 12 years I have had the privilege of serving children and their families on the Central Coast through my time with California Children’s Services, Sierra Vista High Risk Infant Follow-Up Clinic, and most recently providing feeding therapy as part of a multi-disciplinary team with Marlena Tanner’s Yellow House Project.
Grow Forward Occupational Therapy is a project of love and care to continue a tradition of bringing growth, optimism, respect, compassion, and fun working together with children and their families.