Providing therapies to help people communicate, reach their physical potential, and fully participate in the things they want and need to do in everyday life.
Occupational Therapy
Our occupational therapists help people with developmental disabilities fully participate in the things they want and need to do in everyday life.
Occupational therapists treat people through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. They help develop, recover, improve, as well as maintain the skills needed for daily living and working.
Various health issues can pose barriers to participating in daily activities.
After an initial assessment to identify needs of the person supported, Occupational therapists create a treatment plan help people to:
- learn new ways of doing things
- regain skills and develop new ones
- use materials or equipment that makes life easier, or
- adapt their environment to work better for them.
They focus on identifying and eliminating environmental barriers to independence and improving participation in daily activities. OT assessments and intervention facilitate the inclusion of individuals with developmental disabilities in home, school, work, and community life.
Physical Therapy
Our Physical Therapists help people reach their physical potential through various techniques that focus on ambulation, strength, balance, and safety.
Our Physical Therapists’ goal is to help the people that we treat reach their maximum level of functional potential. We focus on gait, mobility, range of motion, stretching, strengthening, balance, and safety. We choose the right equipment to keep our clients safe and working at their best.
We start with an evaluation of our client’s current status and collaborate with them on goals and needs. We then move to our treatments which focus on a variety of techniques to help reach those goals safely.
Speech Therapy
Our speech and language therapists help people communicate more effectively and improve social skills vital for establishing and developing relationships.
There are several speech and language disorders that can be treated by Speech and Language Pathologist. They include the following:
- Articulation disorders: This is the inability to properly form certain word sounds.
- Fluency disorders: This affects the flow, speed, and rhythm of speech. Stuttering and cluttering are fluency disorders.
- Resonance disorders: A resonance disorder occurs when a blockage or obstruction of regular airflow in the nasal or oral cavities alters the vibrations responsible for voice quality.
- Receptive disorders: A person with receptive language disorder has trouble understanding and processing what others say.
- Expressive disorders: Expressive language disorder is difficulty conveying or expressing information.
- Cognitive-communication disorders: Difficulty communicating because of an injury to the part of the brain or biological problems that controls your ability to think is referred to as cognitive-communication disorder. It can result in memory issues, problem solving, and difficulty speaking, or listening.
- Dysarthria: This condition is characterized by slow or slurred speech due to a weakness or inability to control the muscles used for speech.
- Aphasia: This is a communication disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak and understand others.