Just off Boro Park’s 17th Avenue, two sisters merge passion, professionalism, and a relentless pursuit for knowledge in a thriving occupational therapy practice. Here’s what they want you to know about child development — and the effective approach to choosing a therapist.
Pinchas, a sweet boy with a history of delayed milestones who’d received OT services from birth, used to enjoy reading. Now, he’d agree to a book only if it was read to him; when forced to read himself, it took ages.
Bright and imaginative, Meryl excelled in verbal expression. Academics had always come naturally to her, but she’d recently begun showing difficulty reading and writing. A three-page exam took her hours, teachers complained.
Shaindy had trouble reading both Hebrew and English. At age eight, a therapeutic movement program improved her reading for a while, but as she got older and intensive board-copying and complex reading assignments became standard, she started drowning.
All three presented with the identical problem — reading issues — and a lightweight evaluation by novice professionals might have yielded similar treatments. But for Friedy Guttmann Singer and Roizy Guttmann, veteran occupational therapists who believe in comprehensive, exhaustive testing, the commonality ended there.
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