
What is an Occupational Therapist?

Joy Opens Doors provides pediatric speech and occupational therapy. Our philosophy is summed up in our name: we believe that by tapping into a child’s joy, we can open doors of communication and language.
We believe in using cutting edge approaches combining naturalistic play with behavioral techniques. This means that we use meaningful play and social connection in a child’s natural environment. Including your child’s daily routines means faster learning and more comprehensive gains.
Joy Opens Doors serves children and their families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
Therapy is individualized to meet your child’s needs and your family’s needs. Depending on your child, therapy may include:
Pronoun reversal is one of those wildly frustrating things to work on in speech therapy, like a game of “Who’s on first?” In pronoun reversal, your child refers to themselves as “you” and refers to you as “me.”
It’s even more frustrating than that comedy sketch, because your communication partner isn’t joking and might actually cry after telling you, “You do it,” and then seeing you follow through on their request.
What’s happening and why is this so persistent?
Your child is a Gestalt learner, and
is learning whole sentences at a time, without learning the meanings of each individual
word.
Basically in order to fix pronoun reversal in speech therapy, you need to teach a whole lot of sentences containing your target words, in this case, you and I/me. Only once your child has command of lots of different sentences containing these target words can he start to break down the sentence into meaningful units that can start to be switched out.