Children's Special Services

Children’s Special Services is owned by Susan Orloff, who has been an OTR/L for over 30 years.  Mrs. Orloff provides occupational therapy services to children in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and while she serves the majority of her clients in her clinic (located in the large basement of her home and fully equipped with OT goodies), she will travel with a bag of OT equipment wherever she needs to go in order to help her clients succeed, including the school and community. 

 

The basement has tons of equipment in it, including, but not limited to:

• Climbing wall
• Zip line
• Shelves and shelves of board games
• Swing with different attachments
• Ramp and scooter boards
• Large mats
• Stairs
• Basketball goal
• Balance beam
• Drawers filled with manipulatives, writing instruments, and sensory items

Mrs. Orloff’s office is in the upstairs portion of her home.  (I love her Mac desktop computer.)

 

Mrs. Orloff told me that, while she has been trained for sensory integration techniques under Jean Ayres herself, not all of her clients need “SI Therapy.”  She said that if she did only “SI Therapy,” then she would lose the client-centered focus that she strives for. 

Even though she can handle almost anything that comes her way, Mrs. Orloff primarily sees children who have learning disabilities, sensory-motor issues, and social deficits.

 

Things that I think are pretty awesome about Mrs. Orloff:

• She was added to AOTA’s Roster of Fellows in 2013
• She trained under Jean Ayres
• Her therapeutic use of self is quite near perfect
• She spends one or two hours with a kid and has their brain functions and needs figured out
• Parenting Magazine called her this week and interviewed her as an expert on handwriting, and from the articles I see on her wall, this happens frequently
• Her office and her clinic are in her own home
• She published a book and created her own handwriting program
• She has red hair, is Jewish, and is very honest (very)

Children's Special Services, LLC, has only one OT, and that is Susan Orloff.  The only additional service provided by CSS, LLC, is science and math tutoring by her husband, Dr. David Orloff.  Mrs. Orloff currently has two students training under her - me and an OTA student from Denver.