Pediatric occupational therapists work with children to enhance their skills so they can be as successful as possible within their daily life. A variety of impairments, delays or injuries can impede a child’s ability to master skills required to participate in home, school and social engagements.

Areas addressed in occupational therapy include:

• Sensory processing skills

• Fine motor skills

• Visual motor skills

• Upper Extremity Strength

• Executive Functioning skills

• Activities of daily living

Liz Deblasi will provide individual occupational therapy services in a sensory based space using a multi sensory approach. Treatment programs are individualized toward the child’s needs.

Speech-language pathologists work with children to build their overall communication skills within the areas of receptive (understanding language), expressive (use of language), and pragmatic (social) language, as well as speech intelligibility and articulation. Challenges in any or more of these areas can impact a child's overall learning and development in both the school and home environments. Language development starts at birth, from the earliest signs of nonverbal communication in the form of sounds, gestures, and eye gaze, and builds to include more advanced forms of communication, including greeting, turn-taking, play, storytelling, conversing, reading, and writing.

Speech-language therapy sessions with Daria Gates will integrate play with skill development in a natural setting, as to facilitate meaningful and functional language growth. Treatment plans and therapy sessions will build upon each child's unique strengths and meet them at their own individual level.

Pediatric speech-language therapy can support communication skills within a range of populations and across various levels of communicative development, including, but not limited to the following:

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Social Communication Disorder

• Pervasive Developmental Disorder-NOS

• Global Developmental Delay

• Mixed Receptive and Expressive Language Disorder

• Executive Functioning Disorder

• ADHD

• Language-Learning Disability

• Learning Disability

• Speech Sound Disorder

• Childhood Apraxia of Speech

• Fluency Disorders