Our Services

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy is the therapeutic use of everyday life activities for the purpose of enhancing or enabling participation in roles, habits, and routines within a variety of settings. Occupational therapists use their knowledge of person, environment, and/or occupation to improve one's occupational performance and to create occupation-based intervention plans that facilitate change and/or growth in client factors and skills needed to successfully participate.

Our Occupational Therapists specialize in the following:

• Activities of Daily Living (ADL's) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL's) Skills -  Dressing, toileting, bowel/bladder management, bathing/showering, personal grooming/hygiene, feeding, playing, functional mobility, sleep/rest, household chores, money management, home management, care of others and pets, meal preparation, and personal safety.

• Fine Motor Skills - Developing fine motor skills to promote success with tasks such as writing, tying shoes, scissor skills, managing clothing fasteners and manipulating toys.

• Play: The ability to engage with others, toys and their environment appropriately in order to develop age appropriate skills.  

• Motor Planning & Coordination: The ability to process/plan, organize, sequence, and execute body movements in a coordinated manner. 

• Executive Functioning Skills - This includes problem solving, task initiation, working memory, organization, time management, planning/prioritizing, and focus.

• Sensory & Emotional Integration - helping learn to modulate their environment with positive coping skills to facilitate functional and healthy behavior across settings

• Ocular Motor Skills - Developing visual perception and eye control and the ability to recognize objects in order and make adjustments regarding size and spatial relationships. 

• Visual-Motor & Visual Perceptual Skills - These skills are necessary to visually and cognitively process sequences, shapes, and three-dimensional objects around them as well as help children engage in activities such as writing, cutting, clothing management, and engagement with toys. Occupational Therapists are able to help determine whether a child has difficulty with visual-motor integration, visual perceptual or motor coordination.

• Feeding-  The ability to interact during mealtimes. Also addressing areas that may affect healthy mealtime engagement such as: sensory difficulties, posture, routines, social interactions and cognition. 

Speech and Language Therapy

A speech-language pathologist is a specialist who works to improve articulation and speech intelligibility, language comprehension and expression, social communication, and cognitive communication. We provide assessment and intervention to children and young adults to address a variety of speech and language disorders and delays. At Treehouse Pediatric Therapy, we work to improve overall communication skills within a fun and nurturing environment. During speech therapy, the SLP may interact through talking and playing, and using books, pictures, and other objects as part of language intervention to help stimulate language development, model correct sounds and syllables for a child during age-appropriate play to teach the child how to make certain sounds, and provide strategies and homework for the child and parent or caregiver on how to do facilitate speech and language development within the home environment.

Our Speech-Language Pathologists specialize in the following:

• Apraxia: In Childhood Apraxia of Speech, the brain struggles to develop plans for speech movements. With this disorder, the speech muscles aren't weak, but they don't perform normally because the brain has difficulty directing or coordinating the movements.

• Articulation and Phonology: An articulation disorder is the inability to properly form certain word sounds. A child with this speech disorder may drop, swap, distort, or add word sounds.

• Fluency/Stuttering: A fluency disorder affects the flow, speed, and rhythm of speech. Stuttering and cluttering are fluency disorders. A person with stuttering has trouble getting out a sound and may have speech that is blocked or interrupted, or may repeat part of all of a word. A person with cluttering often speaks very fast and merges words together.

• Voice/Resonance: 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. It can also happen if the velopharyngeal valve doesn’t close properly. Resonance disorders are often associated with cleft palate, neurological disorders, and swollen tonsils.

• Receptive Language: A person with receptive language disorder has trouble understanding and processing what others say. This can result in trouble following directions or a limited vocabulary. Other language disorders, autism, hearing loss, or head injury can lead to a receptive language disorder.

• Auditory Processing: Children with an auditory processing disorder can't understand what they hear in the same way other children do. This is because their ears and brain don't fully coordinate. Something interferes with the way the brain recognizes and interprets sounds, especially speech.

• Expressive Language: Expressive language disorder is difficulty conveying or expressing information. It’s associated with developmental impairments, such as Down syndrome and hearing loss.

• Pragmatic Language (Social Skills): Pragmatic language disorders involve impairment in understanding and/or use of pragmatic aspects of language. This is the way we socially use language (ex. using greetings or making requests), changing language according to the situation (ex. using formal language with an adult and more playful language with a child), and following rules of conversation (ex. making appropriate eye contact, staying on topic, understanding nonverbal signals from listeners).

• Cognitive Communication: Difficulty communicating because of an injury to the part of the brain 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.

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication: AAC is used by people who, some or all of the time, cannot rely on their speech. It incorporates the individual's full communication abilities and may include any existing speech or vocalizations, gestures, manual signs, and aided communication. AAC is truly multimodal, permitting individuals to use every mode possible to communicate.

Feeding/Oral-Motor Therapy

Our speech and occupational therapists also address swallowing and feeding disorders and delays related to oral-motor deficits, sensory aversions, swallowing impairments, picky eating, and/or negative mealtime behaviors.

Our therapists specialize in the following:

• oral motor skills for bottle or cup drinking, for eating food off of a spoon or chewing

• swallowing strategies to reduce aspiration or choking.

• feeding techniques to improve meal time behavior, acceptance of foods and liquids, and efficiency of eating

• positioning for feeding

• picking appropriate utensils including bottles/nipples, cups, and spoons.

• improving tolerance of textures.

• oral motor stretching or strengthening.

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