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Therapy Department
Our therapists specialize in treating children with autism and the problems associated with it. We have a passion for helping our children and it shows in the quality of work they do! They collaborate as a multidisciplinary team on an ongoing basis to ensure that each child is reaching their fullest potential and increasing functional independence.
Our speech therapy program is designed to use several different techniques to help the students reach their highest communication potential. These different techniques include:
- Augmentative/alternative communication (Using high/low tech computers to produce speech)
- Social /Pragmatics therapy
- Picture Exchange Communication System
- Functional Communication Training (Manding)
- American Sign Language
Oral motor therapy focuses on:
- Developing oral motor differentiation, strength, range of motion and coordination necessary for speech production
- Introducing new foods into a child’s diet using a systematic approach
- Developing the child’s ability to suck, swallow, chew and blow
- Our oral motor therapist has received training in the Beckman Oral Motor Program and pediatric dysphagia.
Physical Therapy
Our physical therapy program focuses on helping children achieve age appropriate gross motor skills by incorporating many basic necessary “building blocks” with the use of different activities. Building Blocks include but are not limited to: sensory integration principles, integration of primitive reflexes, strength and stability, posture, crossing mid-line, bilateral coordination, balance, gait, motor planning and motor control. The development of these skills enables each child to be a happy, functional member of the community.
Our physical therapist has received training in kinesio taping, dynamic splinting and sensory modulation and processing problems. She is a certified Interactive Metronome provider.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy evaluates, establishes a plan of care and provides treatment and recommendations according to the child’s needs. Our occupational therapy program addresses the following functional skills:
- Fine Motor Coordination
- Visual Perception and Visual Motor
- Integration
- Pre-Writing/Writing Skills
- Self-Help/Activities of Daily Living (feeding, dressing, grooming/hygiene, toileting)
The sensory processing component of the program incorporates tactile, proprioception, vestibular, visual, auditory, body awareness, attention and self organization skills.
Our occupational therapist has received training in administration and interpretation of the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test (SIPT), Therapeutic Listening, Interactive Metronome, Handwriting Without Tears and special needs yoga. The OT works closely with a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant to help each child increase their functional independence.
Therapy Services address the following areas:
- Speech / Language
- Development
- Fine and Gross Motor Skills
- Oral – Motor Skills
- Self – Help Skills
- Functional Living Skills
- Play Skills
- Imitation Skills
- Listening Skills
- Cognition
- Motor Planning
- Bilateral Integration
- Visual Perceptual Skills
- Visual Motor Integration
We also offer:
- Sensory Integration Therapy
- Speech Generated Device Evaluations and Training
- Therapeutic Listening