What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy?

Your child has unique "occupations"—their primary jobs are playing, learning, growing, and becoming independent. Pediatric OT helps your child who may be facing physical, sensory, developmental, cognitive, or behavioral challenges so they can thrive in their everyday environments.

Core Pediatric OT Services

• Sensory Processing Support: Helping your child regulate their responses to sights, sounds, textures, and movement.
• Fine Motor Skill Development: Strengthening hands for writing, cutting with scissors, buttoning shirts, and tying shoes.
• Visual-Motor Integration: Enhancing eye-hand coordination needed for reading, copying shapes, and catching a ball.
• Self-Regulation & Behavior: Teaching you and your child coping tools to manage big emotions, transitions, and attention challenges.
• Feeding & Oral Motor Therapy: Helping your "picky eater" expand their food choices.
• Social & Play Skills: Guiding your child to share, take turns, read social cues, and make friends.
• Executive Function Training: Strengthening your child’s memory, organization skills, and focus for everyday home and community routines.
• Evaluating your child’s need for Adaptive Equipment & Technology to boost independence.
• Helping your family set up "neurodiversity-affirming" spaces to cope with stressors of their daily routines.. 

Signs your Child Might Benefit From OT

• Struggles with handwriting, drawing, or using utensils.
• Appears clumsy or frequently trips and falls.
• Overreacts or underreacts to clothing tags, loud noises, or textures.
• Has extreme difficulty transitioning between activities.
• Struggles to sit still, focus, or follow multi-step directions.
• Avoids developmental play like puzzles, blocks, or playground equipment.
• Missing unwritten rules of play, such as sharing, turn-taking, understanding non-verbal cues, and engaging in imaginative play with peers. 

By addressing the underlying skills needed for participation, occupational therapy helps your child build confidence, improve independence, and engage more fully in their activities that matter most to them and your family.

What is Pediatric Physical Therapy?

Your child craves to move, explore, play, and actively navigate the world around them. Pediatric PT helps your child who may be facing physical, gross motor, developmental, neurological, or orthopedic challenges so they can engage in school and home environments.

Core Pediatric PT Services

• Gross Motor Skill Development: Strengthening large muscle groups to help your child master milestones like crawling, walking, running, and jumping.
• Balance & Coordination Training: Enhancing equilibrium and body awareness needed for riding a bike, climbing stairs, and staying steady during play.
• Strength & Endurance Building: Improving core stability and muscle tone to help your child keep up with peers and participate fully in sports and games.
• Mobility & Gait Training: Correcting walking patterns, addressing toe-walking, and optimizing movement efficiency for safer navigation.
• Postural Control & Alignment: Strengthening the body framework to support optimal sitting, standing, and overall structural alignment.
• Neuromuscular Re-education: Helping your child regain or develop control over movement patterns affected by neurological conditions.
• Sports Injury Recovery & Prevention: Rehabilitating young athletes safely so they can return to the activities and sports they love.
• Evaluating your child’s need for Mobility Equipment & Assistive Devices (such as orthotics, walkers, or wheelchairs) to boost independence.
• Helping your family implement "movement-rich" and accessible spaces to support safe exploration and physical growth in their daily routines.

Signs your Child Might Benefit From PT

• Struggles with running, jumping, catching up with peers, or participating in physical education.
• Appears clumsy, frequently trips and falls, or struggles with balance.
• Displays a strong preference for using one side of their body or walks on their toes.
• Has extreme difficulty sitting up straight, tires easily during physical activities, or prefers to W-sit.
• Struggles to master age-appropriate milestones like rolling, sitting independently, or crawling.
• Avoids physical play like climbing playground equipment, riding wheeled toys, or playing ball games.
• Missing the physical confidence to join in group games, keep up with friends, or safely navigate uneven outdoor surfaces.

By addressing the underlying physical skills needed for movement, physical therapy helps your child build confidence, improve independence, and engage more fully in their activities that matter most to them and your family.

What is Pediatric Speech-Language Pathology?

Your child has many needs to express themselves, connect with loved ones, understand the world, and share their voice. Pediatric SLP helps your child who may be facing speech, language, communication, cognitive, or feeding challenges so they can thrive in their everyday environments.

Core Pediatric SLP Services

• Expressive Language Support: Helping your child put words together, expand their vocabulary, and clearly express their thoughts, ideas, and needs.
• Receptive Language: Strengthening your child's ability to understand spoken language, follow directions, and process information.
• Speech Sound Therapy: Helping your child develop accurate speech sound production skills and improve overall speech intelligibility so they can be more easily understood by family members, teachers, and peers.
• Fluency & Stuttering Management: Providing individualized therapy and support for children who stutter, with a focus on developing comfortable, effective communication and confidence in speaking. 
• Voice & Resonance Therapy: Addressing vocal strain, quality, or pitch concerns to support healthy, effective communication.
• Social Communication Skills: Guiding your child to initiate conversations, maintain topics, read social cues, and connect with peers.
• Cognitive-Communication Intervention: Supporting attention, memory, problem-solving, and executive functioning skills that impact your child's communication, learning, and participation in daily activities.
• Evaluating your child’s need for Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Evaluating and supporting your child’s use of AAC, including gestures, signs, communication boards, picture-based systems, and speech-generating devices, to support functional communication, participation, and independence. 
• Early Communication & Language Development Supporting infants, toddlers, and young children as they develop foundational communication skills, including gestures, comprehension of words, imitation, turn-taking, play, early words, and combining words. 
• Helping your family cultivate "communication-rich" and neurodiversity-affirming environments to support all ways of speaking and interacting in their daily routines.

Signs your Child Might Benefit From SLP

• Struggles to form sentences, use correct grammar, or find the right words to speak
• Difficulty following directions or understanding new words
•  Feeding and Swallowing challenges during mealtime
  •  Supporting children with difficulties related to eating, drinking, chewing, swallowing, food textures, and mealtime participation. Therapy may address feeding skills, oral-motor needs, and strategies to support safe and successful mealtimes. 
• Limited vocabulary for their age.
  • Children develop their vocabulary over time, but some may experience delays. If your child isn’t using age-appropriate words and tends to rely on a small set of words, this can be a sign that they could benefit from speech therapy. 
• Appears to have difficulty understanding what others say or following multi-step directions.
• Difficulty pronouncing words clearly
  • If your child’s speech sounds muffled or unclear and they struggle to pronounce words or sounds properly for their age, it may be an indication that they need speech therapy.
  • For example, if your child consistently replaces “l” with “w” or struggles with more complex consonant sounds, speech therapy can help address this.
• Persistent stuttering or disfluencies
  • Stuttering and speech disfluencies are common in early childhood, but when they persist or become more frequent, it may be time to consider professional help. If your child has frequent interruptions in their speech, such as repeating words, sounds, or syllables, or they appear to be struggling to get words out, speech therapy can provide support. 

• Social Interaction Challenges
  • Avoids talking in social situations, answering questions, or interacting with peers and adults.
  • Missing the verbal or non-verbal tools to join conversations, take turns talking, express emotions, and build meaningful friendships.

By addressing the underlying communication skills needed for connection, speech therapy helps your child build confidence, improve independence, and engage more fully in their activities that matter most to them and your family.

What is a Summer Intensive Program? 

A summer intensive program lasts 4-5 weeks, with children attending therapy three times per week. This focused, high frequency approach accelerates progress by leveraging the brain's ability to grow through intensive, repetitive one-on-one treatment. 

Treatment sessions range from one to three hours per day, depending on the child's needs. Some may focus on a single therapy, while others benefit from a combination of Speech-Language, Occupational, and Physical Therapy for greater progress. Research shows that intensive therapy can help children reach milestones in just three weeks- progress that might otherwise take months. 

As summer approaches, our team will send out notifications of dates for the upcoming sessions. 

Summer Intensive Parent Schedule and Date Preference Sign Up

Please click the link to add your and your child's preferred session, dates and times. We understand that life gets busy with work. We appreciate your assistance in filling this out as this helps us to best plan so that we can accommodate your family and as many families as possible. 

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