Our clinical approaches
Some people are looking for specific clinical approaches, which is why we listed them here, but it’s okay if you don’t understand what these are right now, and we are not expecting you to pick one for your child. We will explain the approaches to you if we think your child would benefit from one of them.
Play-based
Play is the basis for all childhood development. Mr. Fred Rogers said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood”. Therapy is most successful when delivered in a play-based naturalistic way.
PROMPT
(Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets)
This hands-on technique and social-emotional theory helps children with speech production challenges. This technique is often used when treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech
LAMP
(Language Acquisition Motor Planning)
This is a therapeutic approach based on neurological and motor learning principles and is applied to help children who are nonverbal or have limited verbal abilities express themselves spontaneously.
SOS Feeding Therapy
(Sequential Oral Sensory)
"Sequential Oral Sensory” approach to feeding therapy that utilizes a systematic approach to address both the sensory processing and the oral motor skills a child needs to eat a wide variety of food groups and textures.
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PECS
(Picture Exchange Communication System)
This is a unique alternative communication system that was developed from the Verbal Behavior practices from B.F. Skinner. It is a tool used to help give children with limited expressive language a way to successfully communicate.
Beckman Oral Motor Protocol
The goal of this intervention tool is to increase functional response to pressure and movement, range, strength, and variety and control of movement of the lips, cheeks, jaw and tongue as it relates to eating and verbal speech.
Developmental approaches
This approach to therapy which works from the bottom up and meets kids at their developmental level.
DTTC
(Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing)
Individualized treatment centered on movement principles not individual sounds
Visual Perceptual & Visual Motor Integration
Using hand - eye coordination to increase school performance as well as functional skills at home to help us connect our bodies to our brain.
Fine Motor Strategies & Bilateral Coordination
Increasing hand strength, grasp and using both hands appropriately to increase independence in handwriting, dressing, using eating utensils and more.
Sensory Processing Therapy
Sensory interventions are essential for a child to learn more about how their bodies feel and what they need to feel regulated throughout the day.
Metronome
Performing a task with a rhythmic tempo in the background to increase attention and motor planning.
Wilbarger Brush Protocol
Using a specific sensory body brush to give the child calming sensory input.
Zones of Regulation
Assists children in understanding how they are feeling and connecting their emotions to a color or “zone."