Services

Speech and Language Therapy

What is Speech-Language therapy?

Speech-language therapy is the treatment for most kids with speech and/or language disorders. Speech therapy aims to treat a variety of speech or language disorders. A speech disorder is an issue with the physical ability to produce sound. For instance, a child may have an articulation disorder where certain sounds are pronounced incorrectly or a fluency disorder, which includes stuttering. A language is more cognitive and is an issue with understanding or communicating words and sentences. These can be receptive (difficulties processing language), or expressive (difficulties putting words together).

Goals of Speech & Language Therapy

We focus on speech pathology as well as the emotional and social elements of speech by working on the following:

· Promote development of oral-motor, language, and communication skills

· Focus on developmental milestones

· Address concerns for children with neurological impairment, learning disabilities, developmentally delays, stuttering, verbal apraxia, articulation and voice disorders, and hearing impairment

· Recommend augmentative communication systems

· Improve feeding and swallowing difficulties, which may include changing diet texture, exercising muscles used to swallow

· Consider socialization and emotional development, sensory processing, as well as attention and cognitive abilities

· Support a self-advocacy, family education and training, and a comprehensive approach to health-care and medical needs

Occupational Therapy

What is Occupational therapy?

Occupational therapy revolves around helping children participate in everyday activities through therapeutic intervention. The most common example includes children with disabilities learning to participate in school and social situations, or everyday activities such as eating or dressing themselves. However, occupational therapy is aimed to help treat all emotional, social, developmental and even physical problems in children. Therapeutic treatment involves an evaluation of the child and an ongoing facilitation of developmental milestones. Throughout the process, recommendations will be given for adaptive equipment, and guidance will be given to family and caregivers.

Goals of Occupational Therapy Program

We focus on developing skills early on by the following:

· Facilitate development of fine motor skills and developmental milestones

· Maximize posture, bilateral coordination, mobility, and strength

· Address sensory processing, visual-perceptual coordination, and hygiene, feeding and oral-motor therapy, and other self-help skills

· Consider socialization and emotional development, language and communication, and attention and cognitive abilities

· Use splinting and bracing and other assistive technologies to improve handwriting, dressing, and other activities of daily living

· Promote access in the community, self-advocacy and inclusion, and family education and training

· Support a comprehensive approach to health-care and medical needs

Physical Therapy

What is Physical Therapy?

Our Physical Therapists use their expertise in movement and apply clinical reasoning through the process of examination, evaluation, diagnosis, and intervention. At Transcend Therapy, we promote independence, increase participation, enhance learning opportunities, improve strength and endurance and facilitate motor development. Every child responds best to a unique, carefully crafted treatment plan, which every therapist at Transcend Therapy creates. Pediatric Physical Therapists also teach children and their families about safety and home exercises, since improving physical function often requires daily practice.

Goals of Our Physical Therapy Program:

· Maximize function in developmental milestones, motor skills, and mobility

· Improve strength, range of motion, and endurance

· Focus on balance and coordination

· Promote postural control, alignment and body awareness

· Use adaptive equipment and bracing to facilitate independence

· Encourage access to the community for participation in sports and recreational activities

· Support self-advocacy, inclusion, family education and training, and a comprehensive approach to health-care and medical needs