Pediatric Occupational Therapy, and Speech/Language Therapy, Social-Emotional/Psychological, and Academic Supports
Individualized treatment may include: strategies to improve sensory processing, self-regulation, social-emotional skills and learning style, strategies for making home/school environment conducive for learning, strategies for improving organization, strategies to improve homework skills, test taking skills, and long term projects.
Interactive activities, specific exercises, and recommendations for (low to high) assistive technology may also be used to foster skill development. In addition, accommodations will be recommended to facilitate success in school.
Workshops/lectures/webinars/graduate level courses: are presented nationally and locally upon request to parents, caregivers, teachers, daycare providers, paraprofessionals, therapists, and other professionals in the areas of self-regulation, communication and motor development. Topics include: “Learning is Child’s Play”; “Sensory Diet for the Classroom”; “Executive Functioning for Successful Students”; “Building Blocks for Learning” and “Practical and Effective Strategies to Improve Self-Regulation and Executive Functioning Skills”.
Where services are provided: homes, schools, community settings such as daycare centers in the metro west area, north, and south of Boston.
When: after school, evenings, weekends, school vacations, and summer.
Cost: fee for service; rates are established by each individual practioner and available upon request
Services
We are a multidisciplinary team that works with children from infancy to high school. We work with your child and family on an individual basis or collaboratively, within our practice or across settings, to foster your child’s full potential. We service children at home, in daycares, and/or other community settings. We collect data from a variety of sources in order to develop an individualized plan to help your child thrive at home, school, and in the community.
Occupational Therapy
Given the needs of your child and you, an occupational therapist can provide goal directed therapy to improve self-regulation, motor coordination, visual motor skills and executive functioning so that your child can effectively interact with their environment and be happy.
Social Emotional/ Psychological
Given the needs of your child, the psychologist can provide consultation to parents and/or caregivers and if warranted provide some specifically targeted direct therapy to improve the child's social emotional functioning.
Speech and Language
Given the needs of your child, a speech and language pathologist can provide goal directed therapy to improve skills in the areas of receptive and expressive language, language processing, speech articulation, pragmatic language and social communication skills.
Academic Supports
Given the needs of your child, academic support can take on many forms. The focus is typically on learning strategies in the areas of reading, writing, and/or math. These academic skill-based supports can be a stand-alone service with a special education teacher or in collaboration with the team.