Services
feeding therapy
Our focus on pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders helps children who experience eating difficulties including swallowing difficulties, difficulty achieving feeding milestones, choking and gagging during eating, sensory difficulties surrounding feeding and more. Children with other developmental delays are more likely to experience feeding disorders and we are here to help you and your family reach positive mealtime experiences.
developmental therapy
Developmental Therapy is a form of therapy which focuses on the global delays of a child. It targets conceptual skills, fine and gross motor skills, language skills, and social-emotional skills. Our professionals evaluate, assess and develop a treatment plan to best address the specific delays and needs of the child.
Our Pediatric Developmental Therapists focus on the highly critical years between birth and 3, assessing each child's development and identifying strengths and weaknesses. Based on that assessment, our therapists design play activities that help children gain confidence in their own abilities while developing and improving the skills they need for day-to day life.
Because children learn through play, interacting with and copying what they see in their world, they're able to grow in the developmental areas where they show deficits. By providing opportunities for symbolic play, problem-solving, and peer interaction, we help each child to grow in multiple developmental areas.
By providing play-based training that children can incorporate into their daily routines, our therapists help support children through all stages of development. The developmental areas that our Therapists focus on include:
Cognitive skills
Fine motor skills
Gross motor skills
Social and emotional behavior
Skills communication
Language development
Self-help skills
In addition, our Therapists work with parents to help you learn how to interpret your child's behavior. We encourage parents, as well as teachers and other caregivers, to participate in the therapy and treatment process.
speech and language therapy
Through targeted speech and language therapy programs, we help children who have difficulty understanding the language around them or who are unable to communicate their daily wants and needs. The speech and language treatment areas we cover include:
Articulation Disorders: Difficulty in pronouncing words correctly.
Language Disorders: Challenges in understanding others (receptive language) or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings (expressive language).
Fluency Disorders: Problems with the flow of speech, like stuttering.
Voice Disorders: Issues with pitch, volume, or quality of voice.
Cognitive-Communication Disorders: Difficulties with communication skills involving memory, attention, perception, organization, regulation, and problem-solving.
Social Communication Disorders: Challenges with the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication, often seen in individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia): Difficulties in the various stages of the swallowing process.
Aphasia: Impaired ability to process language but does not affect intelligence, often resulting from a stroke or head injury.
Expressive (speaking) and receptive (understanding) language delays
Speech issues surrounding Autism Spectrum Disorders
Oral motor deficits: difficulty moving the lips, tongue, jaw etc.
Apraxia of speech: difficulty connecting what the child wants to say with the speaking apparatus of the mouth
Pragmatic language delays: using speech in a social setting
Auditory processing
Speech issues due medical conditions
occupational therapy
Our occupational therapists evaluate children's skills for school, playing, and daily activities. Children who can benefit from occupational therapy have conditions ranging from traumatic birth and chronic illnesses to sensory processing disorders and learning delays. Among the occupational therapy treatment areas we treat are:
Fine motor skills: eye-hand coordination
Visual motor skills: coordination of visual information with movement
Visual perceptual: skills interpretation of visual information
Sensory processing: skills interpretation of information from the senses
Self-help skills: feeding, dressing, grooming, toileting
Handwriting
Developmental Delays: Delays in reaching developmental milestones in children.
Sensory Processing Disorders: Difficulty in processing information from the senses.
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Challenges with social interaction, communication, and repetitive behaviors.
Neurological Disorders: Conditions like cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, or after a stroke, affecting movement and coordination.
Musculoskeletal Disorders: Injuries or conditions affecting muscles, bones, and joints, such as arthritis or after an injury.
Cognitive Disorders: Challenges related to memory, attention, perception, organizational, and problem-solving skills, often due to medical conditions or after a traumatic brain injury.
Mental Health Issues: Helping with coping strategies, life skills, and routine for conditions like anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders.
Fine Motor Skill Delays: Difficulties with small movements of the hands and fingers, important for tasks like writing, buttoning clothes, etc.