VILLAGE THERAPY SERVICES
Now accepting kiddos 0-5 for in home therapy services
Group Options are Up and Running click HERE for details!!
We provide therapy services for children in the comfort and convenience of their natural environments where they spend majority of their time such as home, school, or daycare. Working with children in their natural environment allows the village therapists to tackle the challenges more efficiently since they are able to observe the skill or behavior in the child's natural environment. Home services are also preferred when a child has medical complexities or they are an infant, home services reduce exposure to infections. We work around families schedules, call us today to make your initial appointment!
Insurances Accepted: PacificSource, Community Solutions, First Choice, OHP, and BCBS
Occupational Therapy
Pediatric Occupational Therapists evaluate and provide services to facilitate growth and independence while addressing fine motor skills, visual motor skills, and sensory processing abilities that a child needs to function and socialize.
Helps improve:
Upper extremity strength and coordination
Fine motor skills such as grasp and release of toys
Visual perceptual / visual motor skills such as hitting a ball or copying from the blackboard
Self-care skills: brushing teeth, dressing, self feeding
Sensory processing and modulation skills: being able to respond appropriately to environmental stimulation
Physical Therapy
Pediatric Physical Therapists evaluate and provide services to help kids improve their range of motion, strength, flexibility, and coordinated movement patterns. They promote independence in movement facilitating the most efficient movement possible and improving their abilities to access their environment.
Helps improve:
Range of motion
Gross motor skills
Balance and strength
Coordination
Functional mobility and gait (walking)
Assists with assistive devices such as walkers, wheelchairs, and lower extremity braces.
Speech Therapy
Service Subitle
Pediatric Speech Therapists will evaluate and provide services for children 0-18 with speech and language difficulties, as well as feeding and swallowing. Evaluations can also detect hearing and word processing challenges. Additional areas of specialty are cognitive and social challenges, articulation, communication, fluency, augmentative communication (alternate ways of communicating), and voice projection.
Helps improve:
Verbal and non-verbal communication skills
Speech production
Articulation
Understanding and expressing language
Feeding / swallowing
Social skills
Feeding Therapy
Feeding therapy can be completed by a pediatric occupational or speech therapist which, can begin as early as birth, after feeding challenges are identified. We also work closely with lactation consultants to maximize feeding success. Prior to treatment an in depth evaluation is completed to determine the kind of feeding challenge, the severity, and interventions to address the challenges.
What Therapy Can Address
Oral stimulation with infants who cannot yet bottle or breast feed.
Tube weaning (for infants who are tube fed)
Interventions that promote bottle/breastfeeding
Feeding and dysphagia (swallowing) therapy
Parent and caregiver education and home exercise programs.
Stimulation and oral motor activities to promote the early development of speech
Signs Your Infant Has A Feeding Problem
Not meeting appropriate developmental milestones (ex. babbling)
Coughing, gagging, and/or choking during feeding sessions
Lacking alertness during feeding sessions
Poor weight gain and growth
Has trouble breathing while eating and drinking
Crying and pulling away from the bottle or breast during feeding sessions
Arches back or stiffens when feeding
Takes an extended time to eat (more than 30 minutes)
Refuses to eat or drink
Excessive drooling
Spitting up and/or vomiting frequently
Has a hoarse or raspy voice during or after feedin