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

Every discipline below, delivered in your home and community, is evidence-based, family-centered, and shaped around the life your child is already living.

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

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 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

Waitlist

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.

Physical therapy currently has a waitlist. Reach out to join it, and we will contact you as soon as a spot opens.

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

Frequently asked questions

Do you accept insurance?

Rock Coastal Therapy is a private-pay practice. We are glad to provide superbills you can submit to your insurer for possible out-of-network reimbursement.

What areas do you serve?

All of our services are available throughout Rhode Island and in nearby Massachusetts communities close to the Rhode Island border. We come to your home, daycare, or community.

What ages do you work with?

We work with pediatric clients of all ages, from infants, toddlers, and children, to teens and young adults. We build each plan around the skills that matter at each stage.

What is feeding therapy?

Feeding therapy is a supportive, child-led approach to oral motor feeding, transitioning to solids, complex feeding needs, sensory-based feeding, picky eating, and stressful mealtimes. It is offered across Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts communities by our occupational therapist and speech-language pathologist who specialize in feeding.

How do we get started?

The best place to start is a free consult call. We learn about your child, then match them with the therapist who best meets their needs.