Care built around your child, in the places they already live

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy helps your child build the skills and confidence to participate in everyday activities at home, school, and in the community. Therapy is individualized and tailored to your child's unique strengths, interests, and goals.

Occupational therapy can help your child with:

• Regulation and sensory processing: responding to sounds, textures, movement, and other sensory experiences, and recognizing and understanding body sensations and emotions.
• Self-care skills: becoming more independent with dressing, grooming, toileting, feeding, and other daily routines.
• Executive functioning: attention, planning, organization, flexible thinking, problem-solving, impulse control, and time management.
• Play skills: exploring toys, imaginative play, turn-taking, and engaging with siblings, peers, and caregivers in meaningful ways.
• Social participation: navigating social situations, understanding social cues, emotional regulation, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Gross and fine motor skills: strength, coordination, balance, developmental motor skills, handwriting, manipulating small objects, and managing clothing fasteners.
• Visual motor and visual perceptual skills: letter and number recognition, puzzles, visual scanning and tracking, copying from a page or board, and locating items in the environment.
• Feeding therapy*

Physical Therapy

Movement opens the door to exploration, play, and independence. Physical therapy helps your child build strength, balance, coordination, and mobility so they can participate more comfortably and confidently in the activities they enjoy.

Your child may benefit from support with:

• Gross motor development
• Delayed motor milestones
• Balance and coordination
• Strength and endurance
• Walking, running, jumping, and climbing
• Gait training
• Posture and body awareness
• Functional mobility
• Adaptive equipment recommendations when appropriate

Speech Therapy

Every child communicates in their own way. Whether your child uses spoken words, gestures, AAC, or a combination of communication methods, therapy focuses on helping them express themselves with confidence while honoring their individual communication style.

Support may include:

• Speech sound development
• Understanding and using language
• Early communication skills
• Gestalt Language Processing (GLP)
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Social communication
• Literacy readiness
• Feeding therapy*

Feeding Therapy

Feeding therapy supports children who struggle with eating in a way that respects their sensory experiences, autonomy, and relationship with food. It is a specialty service with limited availability, provided by our occupational therapist and speech-language pathologist who specialize in feeding.

Feeding therapy can help your child with:

• Oral motor feeding skills
• Complex feeding needs
• Transition to solids
• Selective or picky eating
• Sensory differences related to eating
• Self-feeding skills
• Positive, low-pressure mealtime routines
• Parent coaching and individualized strategies

All of our services are available throughout Rhode Island and in nearby Massachusetts communities close to the Rhode Island border.

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