Lori Taranto, OTR/L

Bio

obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Corporate Health Promotion from Pennsylvania State University in 1995, and her Bachelor’s of science in Occupational Therapy in 2001 from Mount Aloysius College. She also holds minor degrees in Business Administration and Exercise Sports Science. Lori has worked as team and lead OT positions in skilled nursing, acute medical, and home health settings utilizing physical agent modalities, adaptive equipment and general rehab techniques to increase patient’s independence in natural home setting. She has also provided support within hospital setting of inpatient ICU, Telemetry, medical surgical and psychiatric units. Lori has Training in frailty, and is a member of AOTA and NCOTA, was an ASCOTA Conference Delegate, is a certified personal trainer, and is CPR Certified. Lori worked on the Carolina Pediatric Therapy team in 2006 treating children with developmental delays, sensory processing, fine-motor and visual perceptual delays.

Additional information

Our desire is to improve the quality of life and potential for success of each child, as well as, to provide family support and education to parents of children with special needs. We desire to see our patients reach their goals, and to teach families how to create therapeutic opportunities for their children on a daily basis within the child’s routine and most natural environment. We believe in providing treatment where the child spends most of his/her time where skills learned will be the most applicable and will be generalized outside of the therapeutic session. We provide services in homes, daycares, and our office.