What We Do

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapists (OTs) help children with their everyday life activities, with a large focus on play, daily routines, and social engagement. Underlying areas of treatment include difficulties with bilateral coordination, decreased muscle tone and strength, sensory processing concerns, coordination difficulties, attention difficulties, self regulation, visual skills (visual motor, visual spatial, etc), and motor planning/executive function.

Our occupational therapists are trained in a variety of models and approaches including but not limited to:

• Sensory Integration

• DIR/Floortime

• Auditory Interventions including Therapeutic Listening and Integrated Listening Systems (ILS)

• Neuro-developmental therapy (NDT)

• Brain Gym

• Reflex Integration and Rhythmic Movement Training

• Feeding therapy-food chaining and Sequential Oral Sensory Approach (S.O.S)

• Wilbarger Brushing Protocol/Therapressure

• Handwriting including Kinesthetic approach to handwriting, handwriting without tears, typing without tears, and size matters

Physical Therapy

Pediatric physical therapists (PTs) work with children and their families to function independently and to promote active participation in home, school, and community environments. As primary health care providers, PTs also promote health and wellness.

Pediatric physical therapists provide any of the following services as part of their goal-directed plan of care:

• Breath support / diaphragmatic breathing

• Pelvic floor / constipation concerns

• Developmental activities

• Movement and mobility

• Strengthening

• Motor learning

• Balance and coordination

• Recreation, play, and leisure

• Daily care activities and routines

• Tone management

• Assistive technology

• Posture, positioning, and lifting

• Safety, health promotion, and prevention programs

Speech Therapy

Speech therapists emphasize improving a child’s performance in a variety of communication areas including understanding language, expressing themselves, developing effective communication for socializing, articulating words, using mature oral motor skills, and improving myofunctional skills for sleeping and eating, and feeding. Underlying areas of treatment include expressive and receptive language skills, articulation and oral motor skills, sensory and motor based feeding challenges, auditory processing concerns, and self regulation needs. Our therapists also work closely on underlying components of speech including respiration, phonation, and intonation as well as underlying components of language including phonology, syntax, and pragmatics.

• Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC)

• Executive Function

• Prompt method

• Social Thinking

• Visualizing and Verbalizing

• Articulation disorders

• Autism spectrum disorder

• Receptive / Expressive language delays

• Social language delays

• Apraxia

• Fluency issues / Stuttering

• Speech and language delay

Mental Health

Therapists support the emotional wellbeing of children and their families in a caring and sensitive manner. A wide variety of areas are addressed including family dynamics, behavior concerns, and functional emotional/social development. Our staff specializes in the social emotional needs of the child including self regulation, trauma, and the mastery of significant developmental hurdles (feeding, toilet training, and limit testing).

• Play therapy

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Family Counseling

• Regulate emotions 

• Reduce anxieties

• Promote creative thinking and problem-solving 

• Encourage open communication 

• Learn to experience and express emotion.

• Cultivate empathy and respect for the thoughts and feelings of others.

• Learn new social skills and relational skills 

• Develop coping skills for the child's developmental level 

• Develop self-efficacy and thus a better assuredness about their abilities.