Occupational Therapy
- Pediatric Occupational Therapists focus on improving independence with every day activities such as eating, dressing, and bathing. In the young child emphasis is placed on reaching developmental milestones through therapeutic activities.
- The Therapy Place has licensed, highly trained therapists that focus on developing a child’s fine motor, independent living skills, cognitive abilities, reasoning, sensory-motor and academic development training.
Speech Language Pathology (Speech Therapy)
- Licensed, Certified speech/language pathologists assess and provide therapy to address child’s skills in the areas of articulation, language, oral motor, fluency (stuttering), voice and literacy skill development to facilitate effective communication and academic success.
- Does your child:
(1) Have difficulty pronouncing his/her words?
(2) Have limited number of words or vocabulary as compared to other children of his/her age?
(3) Have difficulty making complete sentences and/or formulating words?
(4) Have difficulty understanding others?
(5) Have difficulty being understood by people other than you?
(6) Have difficulty responding in conversations?
Physical Therapy
- Licensed physical therapists focus on the assessment and treatment of children who will benefit from training/assistance in the following areas: range-of-motion, mobility, balance, gross motor control and safety awareness.
- Pediatric Physical Therapists are trained to improve functional movement with emphasis on positioning, transfer training, and use of adaptive equipment.
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 What are the differences between school-based and community/outpatient-based services?
* Speech Therapy in the school is only provided for problems that interfere with learning, so often children with articulation disorders do not qualify for services.
* Outpatient based Speech Therapy can provide more intense treatment which is crucial with disorders like stuttering, articulation disorders, or swallowing.
* Clinical occupational and physical therapy are based on a medical model. They are based on the underlying medical cause of a child's disability and try to treat that medical cause or the symptoms.
* The purpose of occupational and physical therapy in school is to help the child function in the school setting so that he or she can benefit from the educational program. Therapy in school does not necessarily focus on the child's underlying medical problem.
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