Key Facts
- Family owned and operated
- Multidisciplinary Practice
- Team Approach
- Therapy in the natural environment
Signs and Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of speech and language problems:
- Not talking by age 2
- Difficulty producing sounds (articulation)
- Unintelligible speech
- Difficulty labeling common items and familiar people
- Difficulty following verbal directions
- Echolia (repeating back words and phrases without comprehension)
- Word retrieval difficulties
- Difficulty with word meaning
Signs and symptoms of reading or literacy problems:
- Difficulty with letter recognition
- Difficulty with sound-letter associations
- Difficulty with phonemic awareness
- Difficulty hearing sounds in words
- Spelling difficulties
- Poor reading fluency
- Reading below grade level
- Difficulty with sight word recognition
- Difficulty with reading comprehension
Signs and symptoms of motor or sensory problems:
- Overly sensitive to movement, sights, touch, textures, or sounds
- Unusually high or low activity levels
- Coordination difficulties
- Under-reactive to sensory stimulation
- Awkward, clumsy movement
- Handwriting Problems
- Difficulty with self help skills
- Difficulty with oral motor movements (chewing, blowing, sucking)
- Problems organizing behavior
Physical Therapy can help children who have:
- Rehabilitation needs (i.e. brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple trauma)
- Orthopedic conditions
- Neonatal conditions in high risk infants
- Connective tissue disease
- Learning disabilities (including delayed fine motor and gross motor development)
- Multiple handicapping conditions (i.e. cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, congenital anomalies)
