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Wee Hands with Dee Arp. Long
before your baby can speak, she has the ability to understand speech
and wants to communicate with you. Most babies are able to sign back
to you by the time they are 8-12 months of age. Since
2001, across North America licensed WeeHands Instructors
have taught thousands of families and caregivers to sign with their
children. In a WeeHands baby sign language class, you and your
family are taught by a qualified instructor to use American Sign Language
signs, songs and language development strategies with your little one! Click
here for the WeeHands website. |
Brain Fitness is a new scientifically-proven
computer program that enhances healthy brain aging. As we age, the brain’s
natural ability to recall information declines due to a variety of factors. Brain
Fitness exercises your brain to target the root of brain-function
decline and sharpen these “fuzzy” images helping you to remember and
process information more accurately in your daily environment. Click
here for our Brain Fitness brochure (PDF format). See www.positscience.com for
more detailed descriptions of the program and the current research behind
the program. |
Fast
ForWord® - This
revolutionary program for language learning-impaired children is based
on extensive research by Dr. Paula Tallal and Dr. Steve Miller of
Rutgers University and Dr. Michael Merzenich and Dr. William Jenkins
of the University of California at San Francisco. The 6-week program
teaches rapid acoustic processing, listening comprehension, phonology,
morphology, syntax and grammar. Click
here for our Fast ForWord® brochure (PDF
format).
Watch
this new video that explains how Fast ForWord prepares the brain
for reading. |
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Lindamood
Phoneme Sequencing™ (LiPS®) Program - The
LiPS™ Program by Patricia and Charles Lindamood addresses
deficits in phonemic awareness which relate to reading and spelling
problems. Children learn to attach sounds to letters as they
develop a system for improved listening, reading and spelling.
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Visualizing
and Verbalizing™ - Visualizing and Verbalizing
provides a system for developing concept imagery and improved reading/
listening comprehension. Children learn to "make movies" in their
head as a strategy to enhance understanding and memory for information
heard or read. Skills are applied to language, reading, and math.
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Applied
Behavioral Analysis (ABA) -
ABA is a systematic approach
to teaching valued skills and prosocial behaviors. Skills and behaviors
are analyzed, then a program is developed for individual intervention.
Programs include specific presentation methods and reinforcement schedules
with cues that are faded to encourage independent functioning and generalization.
A Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) can evaluate the child using
observations or formal testing and can serve as the programmer if needed.
The child's team often includes the BCBA, a programmer, and an implementer. Click
here for our ABA brochure (PDF).
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TRAK
Program - TRAK and PCSG offer therapeutic horseback riding combined with Speech-Language Therapy to individuals from ages 2 through adult. TRAK's mission is "to provide (individuals) with a wide range of disabilities a whole treatment of mind, body, and soul." Individualized goals are developed to encourage communication and sensory development through the use of interaction with the horses. Click
here for our TRAK brochure (PDF). |
SOS* Approach
to Feeding Program - integrates sensory, motor, oral, behavioral/learning,
medical and nutritional approaches to comprehensively evaluate and
manage children with feeding/growth problems. The treatment component
of the program utilizes developmental steps of feeding to create
a systematic desensitization hierarchy of skills/behaviors necessary
for children to progress with eating a variety of textures. Click
here for our SOS brochure (PDF). |
Social Skills
Groups - Social communication is addressed in small
group programs to enhance effective communication with peers. Goals
emphasize turn-taking, task completion, sequencing, cooperation,
responsiveness, nonverbal communication and conversational strategies. |
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Strategy
Groups for Attention Deficit Disorder - ADD or ADHD can result
in serious academic, behavioral and social problems. Strategy groups
focus on self-regulation, impulse control, cognitive problem-solving,
social skills, stress management, anger management, self esteem and
understanding the diagnosis of ADD/ADHD. |
Sensory
Integration Treatment - Sensory integration treatment enhances
a child’s ability to organize information received through
the senses. Appropriate organization of sensations such as touch,
smell, hearing, vision, movement, and position in space are necessary
for a child to pay attention and respond in learning environments.
Sensory Consortium training courses from the late Bonnie Hanschu's
Developmental Concepts program form the basis for sensory integration
techniques utilized in therapy sessions. |
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Alert
Program for Self-Regulation - The Alert Program is an 8 to
12 week sensory based intervention offered by the Occupational
Therapy Department. Based on the theory of sensory integration, the
program is designed to encourage the use of sensory-motor strategies
and promote awareness of how individuals regulate their arousal states. The
program is designed for children 8 to 12 years, but can be adapted
for younger children. The program consists of a series of
lessons and activities that assist the children to learn to monitor/change
their levels of alertness appropriate to the situation or task. |
Co-Treatment -
Co-treatment sessions include two therapists with one child (or sometimes
more children) with an emphasis on integrating multiple therapy approaches
to enhance a child's progress. For example, the speech-language pathologist
and the occupational therapist may treat together in one session so
that the child receives movement stimulation on the equipment in order
to enhance attention and promote increased verbalizations as language
activities are presented by the speech-language pathologist. |
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Handwriting
Without Tears® - This
treatment approach is a developmentally-based curriculum for pre-writing
skills, printing, and cursive. Multi-sensory strategies are
used incorporating visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic input. Children
learn letter formation, eliminate reversals, increase legibility,
improve sentence spacing, and improve cursive connections. |
Interactive
Metronome® - Interactive Metronome® is a computer based
program designed to help improve motor regulation and attention
span. An average of 15 one-hour sessions of repetitive drills and
immediate auditory computer-based feedback have positively influenced
the development of motor planning, sequencing, timing, and concentration. |