SERVICES PROVIDED
SPEECH-LANGUAGE THERAPY
At the core, the primary goal of pediatric speech-language therapy is to help children become independent and effective communicators. Speech therapy encompasses a vast scope including language, speech production, voice, fluency, cognition, and feeding and swallowing. Whether your child is verbal or has limited verbal communication skills, our highly trained speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can help your child develop a functional means of communication that will enhance their everyday life. Speech therapy at Three Little Birds is child-centered and capitalizes on each child’s unique interests to help build motivated and confident communicators.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Occupational therapy helps children become as independent as possible with all of the tasks they complete and activities they engage in daily. Some tasks likely include- putting their shoes on, getting dressed, brushing their teeth, feeding themselves. Some of their daily activities are playing (children learn through play so this is VITALLY important!), climbing on playgrounds, drawing with chalk, and riding a bike. The overall skill areas that occupational therapy addresses in order to facilitate increased independence and optimal functioning with all tasks and activities are: sensory processing and integration, fine motor, gross motor, visual perceptual motor, and feeding. Sensory processing and integration are at the core of everything our children do daily, therefore OT at Three Little Birds has a strong sensory integration basis. Our occupational therapists are highly qualified experts in the field and utilize their expertise to advance their client’s skills by weaving therapeutic activities into play-based and highly motivating therapy sessions.