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Physical Therapy

Occupational Therapy

Speech Therapy

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​Physical Therapy
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Physical therapists work with families to address challenges and delays in the areas of gross motor development, motor planning, and developing typical movement patterns. Skilled services focus on assessment and treatment of deficits including:

 

  • Muscle tone

  • Strength

  • Range of motion

  • Coordination

  • Balance

  • Spatial Awareness

  • Proprioception

  • Gross Motor Patterns

  • Posture
     

Your child may need Physical Therapy if he/she is experiencing any of the following below:

  • Delayed in meeting milestones: rolling, sitting, crawling, pulling to stand, walking, running, and jumping

  • Decrease head control

  • Frequent falls

  • Abnormal posture

  • Pain with moving and/or specific positioning

  • Decrease head control

  • Decrease coordination

  • Fatigue with age related activities

  • Injury to bone, joints, and/or muscles

  • Toe walking

  • Severe in-toeing: feet turning inward

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​Occupational Therapy: 
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Occupational therapists work with families to assist their children in learning functional skills and integrating them into daily life.  Skilled services focus on many aspects of daily daily activities include:

  • Development of hand-eye coordination

  • Visual perception

  • Oral skills for eating

  • Coordination of the whole body

  • Feeling comfortable with the positioning and movement of their body during daily activities.

  • Task attention skills

  • Self regulation

  • Self-care techniques, such as personal grooming, personal hygiene, and dressing themselves.

  • Visual perceptual skills 


Your child may need Occupational Therapy if he/she is experiencing any of the following below:

  • Poor fine motor skills

  • Trouble with reading/writing

  • Immature gross motor skills

  • Decreased motor control

  • Decreased eye hand coordination

  • Difficulty with visual perception

  • Overly sensitive to sensory input

  • Under responsive to sensory input

  • Touches people or objects constantly (seeking sensory input)

  • Crashes and/or bangs into people or objects

  • Falls often

  • Difficulty calming self

  • Difficulty with sleeping

  • Difficulty with eating and food choices

  • Difficulty with sitting still, attention, and/or behavior

  • Emotional reactivity

  • Reactive to feel of clothing, baths, haircuts, nail cutting, or tooth brushing

  • Limited play skills

  • Poor social development

  • Limited independence in self care skills

  • Difficulty transitioning or accepting change in environment or routine

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Speech Therapy: 

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Speech-language pathologists work with families to address various communication impairments. They are skilled professionals who instruct children in many aspects of communication and cognition, including:

• Receptive language: interpreting and understanding information from the environment
• Expressive language: expressing needs, wants, and ideas to others as well as using vocabulary and concepts
• Pragmatic language: social language which includes using language for different purposes (greeting, informing, requesting, etc.) and following rules for conversation (taking turns, staying on topic, facial expressions, eye contact, etc.)
• Articulation: producing speech sounds in words, sentences, and conversation
• Phonology: recognizing and manipulating speech sounds to make words and build literacy skills
• Reading/writing: decoding and understanding written information, spelling correctly, and writing in a clear, organized fashion
• Fluency: speaking smoothly at an appropriate speed
• Voice: producing a clear voice and using healthy speaking/voicing behaviors
• Augmentative/alternative communication: using alternative systems and technology to supplement or substitute for verbal expression, such as PECS, sign language, or dedicated computer systems
• Cognitive development: developing skills in memory, problem-solving, inferencing, predicting, and interacting with others
• Oral-motor and oral-sensory function: using oral structures (mouth, teeth, tongue, etc.) for speech and safe, efficient eating
• General feeding issues: accepting a variety of nutritious foods with varying flavors, textures, temperatures, and chewing demands

Our speech-language pathologists are committed to helping children reach their full developmental potential and realize their full range of communication abilities for improved quality of life, more active participation within their families, and increased independence in activities of daily living.

Your child may benefit from Speech Therapy if he/she experiences any of the following:

• You or other people have difficulty understanding your child.
• Your infant/toddler is not babbling/playing with sounds or trying to imitate you.
• People think your child is younger than he/she actually is because of the way he/she speaks.
• Your child is being teased or shows frustration because of the way he/she talks.
• Your child uses fewer words than other children of his/her age.
• Your child stutters or produces speech with many stops and starts.
• Your child's interactions or play seem unusual or inappropriate when compared with peers.
• Your child struggles with reading, writing, and/or spelling.
• There is a diagnosis that could affect speech or language such as hearing loss, auditory processing disorder, autism spectrum disorder, or developmental delay.

 

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