Center of Development Pediatric Therapies

Center of Development uses a family based approach to therapy for your child. We have 5 seperate child friendly treatment gyms that are fun and engaging, your child will LOVE coming to therapy!

We are here to help you, educate you, and empower you as a parent and caregiver to help your child succeed!

We want you as a family to be excited about learning more about your child's issues and advanced treatment techniques to help them. This website has a lot of information gathered from over 15 years of educating families on the most advanced treatment techniques available for their child's issues.

At the Center of Development we focus on what the underlying cause of your child's delays are using a team of therapists that have advanced training in pediatric therapies and a holistic approach to treatment. We educate families on all the treatment options for their child and how to empower them with more knowledge on treatment for delays.

Private practice therapy can ALWAYS be done along with your child's educational therapies. If your child is receiving therapy with TEIS or the school system, they can ALSO receive therapy in our clinic. Most children need both educational and medical based therapies to make good progress.

All of our therapists love children, and are focused on not only what therapy interventions the child needs in therapy sessions, but what will work in the home setting to help you as a family carry out those techniques in your hectic daily life schedule.

Therapy with children should look like play, it should be a wonderful time of bonding and creating connections with your child!

Therapy at Center of Development is a time of learning how to best help your child develop, discovering your child's great potential, seeing your child's weaknesses turn into their newest achievement, watching your child meet milestones they could never achieve before, and helping create a better understanding of the blessing of being a parent and overcoming your child's special needs.

Building a child's self esteem is a very important part of what we do in therapy as we believe that this is a vital part of every individual's ability to meet their greatest potential!

Services offered at Center of Development: When you observe a therapy session at Center of Development, you may not be able to tell if the therapist is an OT, PT, Speech therapist, or Behavioral Therapist. This is a good thing!

We want to address all of your child's developmental needs in each disciplines therapy session as you cannot separate different areas of development in a child, the body and brain work as a whole team, so we use a wholistic team based approach to therapy.

Treatment begins with an in-depth parent discussion and observations of your child.

An extensive in-depth evaluation using clinical observations as well as the latest standardized evaluations will be done that will tell you as the family and all the professionals working with your child what the underlying causes are for the child's difficulties.

Collaboration with the child's teacher, pediatrician, and other therapists is encouraged and information can be shared with the families permission. This will be the beginning of laying the ground work for a treatment program that is designed to help you as a family and other professionals help meet your child's needs. It will also help the professionals such as teachers understand your child better, and know what modifications and interventions to do to help them meet their educational goals.

Weekly therapy sessions and consultations are set up depending on your child's needs and your family schedule. Home therapy plans with easy to follow verbal, written, and demonstrations are given each therapy sessions to help you as a family understand and carry out therapy needs in the home setting.

1. Pediatric Occupational Therapy focuses on evaluation and treatment of a child's ability to perform at age appropriate levels in all environments. We often treat children with difficulties with touch, delayed movement skills, poor balance, muscle in-coordination, poor muscle tone, delayed fine motor skills, difficulty with meeting developmental milestones, behavioral issues, attention and focusing issues, difficulty with eating skills, delayed self help skills, picky eaters, poor handwriting skills, and many other delays in development.

2. Pediatric Physical Therapy focuses on evaluation and treatment of a child's ability to meet gross motor, sensory motor, and developmental milestones. Examples of those needing physical therapy include any child with a developmental delay in , sitting, creeping, crawling, walking, poor balance control, poor muscle tone, poor transitional movements, poor motor coordination, and other disorders of childhood development that are impeding physical development.

***Pediatric Speech and Language Therapy focuses on evaluation and treatment of oral motor delays, delayed speech, poor communication, stuttering, poor speech patterns, difficulty with social speech patterns, and poor lip and tongue movement patterns.