Services
Pediatric Therapies
Occupational Therapy
The Astronaut Training Program is an evidence-based intervention designed to support children with sensory, vestibular, and visual processing disorders, as well as those diagnosed with Autism. Our certified therapists are trained to administer this specialized, sound-activated vestibular-visual protocol, which enhances the integration of movement, vision, listening, attention, and communication.
By improving the dynamic interaction among these systems, the program helps promote better sensory processing, self-regulation, and motor function. Ultimately, it supports your child’s ability to engage more effectively with peers and navigate their environment with greater confidence and ease.
Therapeutic Listening is an evidence-based auditory intervention designed to support sensory processing and functional outcomes. Children wear specialized headphones that play music which has been carefully filtered to expose the nervous system to a range of low, medium, and high-frequency sounds. The music is strategically selected to match the child’s current state and address individualized functional goals. Therapeutic Listening can help improve self-regulation, attention, transition tolerance, and visual-motor integration
Vision Therapy is designed to support individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well as related conditions such as ADHD, developmental delays, and learning difficulties, in achieving their full potential. The program targets visual perception, which is the brain’s ability to interpret and make sense of what the eyes see. This is different from visual acuity, which refers to the clarity of vision (e.g., “20/20 vision”). It is possible for someone to have perfect visual acuity and still struggle with visual perceptual processing, which can impact learning, attention, and daily functioning.
Visual Perceptual Motor Deficits affect the brain’s ability to interpret and respond to visual information. These challenges can interfere with reading comprehension, shorten attention span, and impact a child’s ability to draw, write, or copy shapes and letters.
While practice alone cannot correct visual perceptual deficits, targeted intervention can make a significant difference. Our occupational therapy program offers therapeutic activities designed to strengthen visual processing skills and support improved academic performance.
Visual perception includes seven key sub-skills:
Visual Discrimination
Visual Memory
Visual-Spatial Relationships
Visual Form Constancy
Visual Sequential Memory
Visual Figure-Ground Discrimination
Visual Closure
If your child is showing signs of vision-related difficulties, we encourage you to schedule an evaluation through our occupational therapy program. Our comprehensive assessment includes the Beery–Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, along with two additional subtests: Visual Perception (a non-motor task) and Motor Coordination. This standardized, culturally fair assessment provides valuable insight into your child’s visual processing strengths and needs.
Our program utilizes the Beckman Oral Motor Feeding Program, an evidence-based treatment designed to support children with oral motor difficulties. This approach targets a variety of feeding challenges by addressing oral motor hypersensitivity, promoting texture progression, introducing adaptive mealtime utensils, and expanding a child’s acceptance of foods based on taste, texture, smell, and color.
These strategies are integrated with postural, respiratory, and multisensory activities, forming the foundation of our Autism treatment program. While highly effective for children with Autism, these interventions have also shown significant benefits for children with Cerebral Palsy, apraxia, anxiety, ADHD, behavioral challenges, and other learning difficulties.
By supporting the neurological development of the brain, these treatments enhance sensory integration and contribute to meaningful, lasting improvements in feeding, regulation, and overall function.
Physical Therapy
- Neurologic and orthopedic disorders
- Sports injury management
- Gait disorders
- Movement disorders
- Infant torticollis /plagiocephaly
- Delayed gross motor development
- Posture deviations
- Equipment and seating needs
Speech Therapy
- Receptive Language: the ability to listen and understand speech. This includes understanding sentences, following directions, understanding a story, and understanding basic concepts.
- Expressive Language: the ability to verbally express our thoughts and ideas. It includes sentence production, grammar, the content of the message, and vocabulary.
- Pragmatics (Social Skills): The social language skills we use in our daily social interactions. This includes what we say, how we say it, how we play and our body language.
- Cognitive Skills: refers to the ability to attend to tasks, use our memory, organize information, solve problems and use reasoning skills
- Articulation: refers to the way we produce speech sounds. We use all of our articulators to produce speech sounds in order to produce meaningful words. We treat the production of specific speech sounds and/or speech pattern errors.
- Oral Motor Skills: the skills to carry out specific movements and functions of the lips, tongue, cheeks, and other various supporting muscles of the oral area.
- Apraxia: deficits in the pronunciation of sounds, syllables, and words due to difficulties with motor planning, not muscle weakness.
- Fluency: refers to the smoothness with which sounds, words, and phrases are put together verbally. Fluent speech should be void of hesitations, extraneous pauses, or repetitions. Dysfluency is commonly known as “stuttering”. Stuttering is a disturbance in the normal flow of speech.
- Voice Disorders: the ability to sustain a normal voice quality and resonance. Some people experience hoarseness, wet vocal quality, nasality, high and/or low pitch.
- Feeding: refers to children who have trouble eating/drinking during meals due to sensory deficits, decreased strength and oral motor weakness, and/or behavioral difficulties.
- Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia): refers to the ability to suck, chew, adequately manage food, and direct it into the esophagus. We provide treatment to strengthen the oral and laryngeal mechanisms.
Parent Training
Parents actively participate in the evaluation process and work collaboratively with our therapists to set meaningful goals for their child. This partnership continues throughout treatment, with families and caregivers receiving ongoing training and feedback during therapy sessions.
We provide each family with a personalized home program to equip caregivers with the tools and knowledge to help their child reach their highest potential.
