Kidspot provides pediatric Speech, Physical and Occupational Therapy services. Our therapists hold a variety of specialized certifications to allow multiple avenues for helping your child achieve their goals. We work together as a team, with the child and caregivers being the most important team members!
Physical Therapy
This is an of rehabilitation that focuses on helping children improve their range of motion, strength, flexibility, and movement patterns in order to improve function and prevent disability.
Our physical therapists will work with you and your child to achieve their maximum potential to help foster independent exploration of their environment. We use purposeful play to help us encourage milestone achievement in all ages!
Program Features
- Comprehensive evaluations
- Individualized treatment plans
- Individualized home program for optimal carry over into the home
- Variety of treatment modalities to ensure goals are achieved
- Purposeful activities used to engage children of all ages and abilities
- Monitoring of orthotics, mobility devices and adaptive seating
Speech Therapy
Speech therapy is used to improve verbal, nonverbal, and social communication in children with any conditions or disorders that may impede their speaking abilities.
Our speech therapists work with your child to assess speech, language, and cognitive-communication skills. This allows them identify any problem and the best way to treat it. Speech therapy helps your child gain confidence and independence in all aspects of daily life!
Program Features
- Comprehensive evaluations
- Individualized treatment plans
- Multi-faceted approach may include use of a picture exchange system; sign language; augmentative communication system.
- Use of purposeful activities to engage children of all ages and abilities.
- Individualized home programs for optimal carry over into the home.
- Consultation with team members for carryover of communication plan into all therapy sessions.
Feeding Therapy
Feeding therapy is provided by specialized feeding therapists and is used to help infants or children who have difficulties sucking, chewing, feeding or swallowing. Our therapists can also help those children with food aversions.
Feeding therapy can help your child learn how to eat and even how to eat more efficiently/effectively. This therapy targets oral motor skills and/or expanding a child’s diet to provide for more variety in fruits, vegetables, or meats.
Program Features
- Specialized feeding therapy training
- Management of liquids and solids
- Bottle, cup, utensil selection for optimal intake
- Food aversions
- Home program and training to all caregivers involved in feeding program
- Consultation with GI, nutritionist and other professionals involved in feeding program
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists work to improve the function and independence of children with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. They provide therapeutic interventions that help develop fine motor, cognitive, language, social and self-care skills.
Our occupational therapists work with you and your child on activities and skills of daily life. We help give your children the tools to gain confidence and independence with age-appropriate skills. This helps your child better understand the world around them.
Program Features
- Comprehensive evaluations
- Individualized treatment plans
- Individualized home program for optimal carry over into the home
- Multi-faceted treatment approach
- Specialized training in aquatic therapy, Therapeutic Listening, Wilbarger Protocol, NDT, MPS
- Use of purposeful activities to engage children of all ages and abilities
- Focus on fun and creativity!
It is Kidspot’s continued commitment to clients and staff that has resulted in an agency that has provided quality pediatric therapy services for almost 30 years and retained staff for 8-20 years!
We are now offering free developmental phone screenings, these only take about 15 minutes to perform! If no therapy is recommended our therapists will likely offer suggestions regarding you area’s of concern. If we believe your child may benefit from therapy we will recommend you obtain a referral from your pediatrician for a more detailed evaluation with the appropriate service.