Therapy Services

Physical therapy assists children and adults in achieving their maximum potential by using therapeutic exercise techniques to improve range of motion, recovery of strength and endurance and to improve balance and coordination. Physical therapists also provide assistance on how to move independently, or with assistive devices (walkers, wheelchairs, crutches)

• Acquisition of developmental milestones
• Balance and coordination
• Development of age-appropriate gross motor skills
• Joint mobility and integrity
• Posture, positioning and gait

Speech therapy focuses on articulation, expressive and receptive language, oral motor function, and enhancing communication skills. Speech and language development is the foundation for all academics. Speech communication is one of the most fundamental and important of human skills. It is essential to learning, playing and social interaction.

• Sound production (articulation)
• Receptive language skills (understanding and following direction)
• Expressive language skills (putting words together, naming objects, etc.)
• Social skills of language (turn taking, eye contact, reading facial expression)
• Voice (quality, volume, pitch)
• Fluency (speed of speech, stuttering)
• Assistive communication (sign language)
• Oral motor skills (movement of the tongue, teeth, lips, and jaw) and feeding
• Sucking and swallowing disorders

Your child's life is made of occupations, or everyday activities. These occupations include playing, learning, sleeping, interacting with friends,
getting dressed, and other daily activities. Many of us don't think about a child's daily occupations until he or she has challenges performing them. Occupational therapy supports people of all ages by
incorporating the occupations that are important to you or your child into the intervention process.

• Self-care skills: dressing, feeding,
  grooming, bathing, toileting, etc.
• Sensory Processing Skills & behavioral
  outcomes: vestibular, proprioceptive,
  visual, auditory, oral, touch / feel balance, etc.
• Fine Motor skills: writing, cutting, drawing, games, puzzles, etc.