Pediatric Therapy Services
As a participating First Steps agency for over 10 years, Hand In Hand Comprehensive Therapy Specialists, Inc.’s focus is quality service, attention to detail and providing your family with opportunities to best meet your child’s needs. Through the variety of services we offer, it is our vision to help meet the goals of your family. Your needs are important to us and we invite you to contact us with your questions, as together, we share and help make your dreams for your family a reality.
Occupational Therapy Includes:
Individual Therapy Services
Individual therapy is designed to provide one-on-one, goal-specific therapy based on the specific needs of your child. Session times can range from 30 to 60 minutes, depending on your child’s individualized treatment plan.
As the child’s caregiver, you assist in creating and implementing the treatment. Caregivers are welcomed into the therapy session with their child.
Some Common Concerns Occupational Therapists Work On:
- Fine motor skills
- Play Skills
- Self-care skills
- Focus and/or hyperactivity
- Sensory Processing
- Picky eating
Physical Therapy Services Includes:
Individual Therapy Services
Individual therapy is designed to provide one-on-one, goal-specific therapy based on the specific needs of your child. Session times can range from 30 to 60 minutes, depending on your child’s individualized treatment plan.
As the child’s caregiver, you assist in creating and implementing the treatment. Caregivers are welcomed into the therapy session with their child.
Some Common Concerns Physical Therapists Work On:
- Gross motor skills
- Range of motion
- Strength
- Flexibility
- Coordination
- Torticolis
Speech Therapy Includes:
Individual Therapy Services
Individual therapy is designed to provide one-on-one, goal-specific therapy based on the specific needs of your child. Session times can range from 30 to 60 minutes, depending on your child’s individualized treatment plan.
Some Common Concerns Speech-Language Pathologists Work On:
- Speech articulation
- Apraxia
- Receptive & Expressive language
- Social skills
- Oral-motor skills
- Feeding skill
Group Therapies
Feeding Group Therapy Services
This feeding group is based off of the well-respected SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) Approach. This program involves four clients paired with four therapists (speech language pathologists & occupational therapists), for a one-on-one approach within a group setting. Unlike some groups, the parents/caregivers are extremely important and involved in this approach, making it more effective. The parents/caregivers watch the feeding sessions live in a conference room, where they are also taught and directed, by a counselor, how to carry out this approach at home. This group runs for 12 weeks.
Social Language Groups
Social language groups offer a small group setting facilitated by a Speech Language Pathologist in which a child can generalize skills in a realistic environment. Goals addressed may include appropriate eye contact, turn taking, asking and responding to questions, and body language. Groups typically consist of three or four children of similar age who share a need to improve appropriate social language use. Sessions are 60 minutes long and run for five weeks.
Language Enrichment Groups
These groups are designed for children ages three to five. A Speech Language Pathologist facilitates this program, which addresses children’s speech, language, and social development with peers. These groups focus on using strategies to promote language skills, vocabulary development, phonological awareness, print awareness, and knowledge of letter-sound relationships. Families will also learn to use these strategies to support their children’s learning at home. Groups consist of three to four students for sessions of 90 minutes. These groups run for eight weeks.
Literacy Groups
Little Readers Book Club is a small group that supports the development of pre-reading skills in children aged 3-5 years old. Our goal is to help strengthen the child’s language foundation and provide exposure to emergent literacy skills. Each week, your child will read a “book of the week”, participate in small group activities focused on letters, rhyming, and syllable segmenting and story re-tell. Following the group, the speech-language pathologist will meet with you to provide strategies and handouts to support literacy development in the home. The sessions are 90 minutes long and last for 8 weeks.
