The McHales are very knowledgeable on utilizing advanced & regular techniques to help create better health, function and wellness for their clients. They take a very caring and compassionate approach with every child.
Vision Based Modalities
The visual system is one of the most overlooked and underrated root causes to many issues that impact a person’s ability to function optimally. Vision is most often understood as acuity…how effectively the eye can see. But vision is also how the brain perceives and makes sense of what the eye is seeing. It helps us understand our environment and where we are in space. An underactive brain/eye connection can result in issues with eye-teaming, focusing, convergence, eye-hand coordination, visual tracking, visual processing speed and more. Deficits in these areas can have a debilitating impact on a developing child and is often misdiagnosed as a behavioral or attention based learning problem.
At Right Starts, our approach includes addressing the visual system by integrating visual activation methods with whole body exercises. With simple activation techniques, the visual system becomes stabilized and is ready to effectively take on the demands of it’s role in the sensory system. A stabilized visual system is able to interpret the information coming into the eyes and organize it properly in the brain. This results in reading and comprehending with ease, writing legibly, finding objects in the environment without difficulty, tolerating competing environments without strain, refined hand eye coordination, decreased fatigue, feeling more calm and confident, etc.
It is important to note that some patients may experience visual challenges that require further diagnostic assessment and treatment from a neuro-developmental optometrist. We will be certain to make this recommendation if it’s warranted.
Vision Based Modalities Can Help Many Limitations
Vision based modalities are especially helpful for children and adults with the following functional limitations:
- Attention Challenges
- Learning Difficulties
- Behavioral Challenges
- Sloppy or Illegible Handwriting
- Experiencing Fatigue and/or Headaches During School, Work or Prolonged Computer Time
- Heightened Anxiety (Especially in Public, Crowded or Over Stimulating Environments)
- Poor Posture
- Dizziness or Car Sickness
- Muscle Tension in Neck and Shoulders
- TMJ
Interested in how Vision Based Modalities could benefit you? Schedule a free consultation online or call (732) 701-7768.
Explore Our Other Modalities
Brain Based Modalities
At Right Starts, we value “neurological readiness”. We believe in activating the brain and regulating the nervous system prior to working on functional skills and utilize a variety of modalities in order to do so. With proper neurological activation and organization in place, patients are then able to engage in new learning and take on challenging tasks with greater success.
Functional Modalities
Optimal outcomes come fastest by addressing the body in its entirety. Our Functional Modalities allow us to get “right to the root” of the interferences that are impacting the inner terrain of the body and begin promoting healing. By supporting proper detoxification, healing the gut, clearing emotions and releasing tension patterns within the fascial system, lasting changes are made.
Vision Based Modalities
Interferences in the visual system can have a huge impact on a person and are often the root cause of attention deficits, learning challenges, headache disorders, difficulties with gait and balance, etc. We incorporate multiple modalities to activate and strengthen the visual system as a way to engage the entire sensory system within each treatment.
Pathways to Healing
Beginning a wellness journey can often feel like entering uncharted territory. At Right Starts, we come alongside our patients and their caregivers to co-create a course of treatment prioritizing the individual needs and goals of our patients. Drawing on our unique perspective as holistic OTs and parents ourselves, we help our patients find the most direct pathway to success. Our respect for the intricate connectedness of the human body drives our passion for finding the root causes to our patient’s challenges and employing a multitude of holistic modalities to address those challenges on a foundational level. We call our treatment a “Healing Pathway”. Each patient’s personalized pathway serves as a guide through the various stages of wellness and development.
Testimonials
I started using Right Starts when my daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia and we needed assistance with vision therapy. During the first session I was blown away by how creative Jamie’s plan of care was – really targeting tasks that my daughter was interested in and benefited from. Shortly after, I started bringing my son, who has a diagnosis of ADHD. Jamie and Brian worked with me to develop unique plans of care that targeted the goals of each child. Over the years, they have each improved dramatically and are excelling. I attribute a lot of their success to the work they have done with Jamie and Brian during the past 7 years. Both of these therapists are dedicated to the children and adults that they care for and that is evident from the moment you meet them. Get on their waiting list. You will not regret it.
I wouldn’t trust my son to go anywhere else. Jaime and Brian are professional, loving, understanding, and everything you’d want in an OT for your child. We have seen so much progress, and are so grateful for their work with our boy!
We have trusted Jamie and Brian with our son for the past six years. We couldn’t be any happier and highly recommend Right Starts. Not only are they skilled, professional, and get results—but more importantly, their hearts are made of gold. My son loves them as much as they love him.
My family and I have been lucky to have been introduced to Right Starts and we could not be anymore grateful for their guidance and support. We love the welcoming, homey atmosphere and they are always so calm, yet attentive to our family’s needs. Life can be crazy when you are a parent to a child who requires sensory or behavioral support and they have always been so helpful and never steer us wrong.
When our 9 month old contracted life-threatening bacterial meningitis we contacted Jaime and Brian on our way out the door to the emergency room. Right Starts OT held our hand the entire time we were in the hospital, supporting us in ways we didn’t even know we needed. The owners were the driving force behind our discharge plan that allowed us to bring our medically fragile baby home during a time of Covid, a worldwide Pandemic. The hospital was pushing us to discharge to inpatient rehab and we just knew it wasn’t the right plan for us. Jaime and Brian supported us through a family planning meeting where we presented a telehealth team that we were fully confident would guide us towards full recovery. Jaime and Brian have directly treated our son for the last 8 months. With the support of the OT practice treating him weekly and providing family goals for wrap around support, this miracle baby has made gains to close the developmental gap that his neurosurgeon and neurologist say is the fastest rate of recovery in their career!! I can truly say this recovery was possible because of Right Starts Occupational Therapy.
