OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Occupational Therapists at Konfetti Kidz Therapy are licensed professionals trained to help children improve their ability to participate in everyday activities and meet developmental milestones. Occupational Therapists facilitate the development of children’s sensory integration abilities, gross and fine motor skills, visual-perceptual skills, social skills, and self-care abilities to increase their participation in their environments (school and home). Our therapists use their passion for helping children to examine, evaluate and develop an individualized program to increase the child’s developmental skills. A child’s occupation is play as this is how they learn and develop. Our programs integrate various treatment approaches into entertaining “play” therapy techniques that enhance the child’s capabilities. The Occupational Therapists will work with the family to review the evaluation findings, establish treatment goals and objectives that are meaningful and functional to the child and family.
Our occupational therapy team will evaluate and treat the following skill areas:
- Sensory integration and processing
- Fine motor skills
- Visual motor and Visual Perceptual skills
- Play Skills
- Activities of Daily Living Skills
- Social skills
- Postural control, alignment, movement patterns
- Core strength, motor planning, and coordination
- Shoulder girdle, upper extremity, arm and hand function
Our occupational therapy team will:
- Assess and treat
- Create individualized Plan of Care
- Recommend assistive equipment
- Provide education to caregivers and Home exercise programs
- Consult with other professionals regarding the role of occupational
Therapy and how it can improve the child’s daily life
- Collaborate with caregivers and child to create effective carry-over from the occupational therapy clinic to home
Our goal is to improve and maximize performance in everyday activities to promote functional independence.
PHYSICAL THERAPY
Physical therapists at Konfetti Kidz Therapy are licensed professionals trained to help children achieve their optimal strength and endurance to support functional mobility and play. Treatment strategies are utilized in order to facilitate improved coordination and functional movement patterns. Our therapists use their passion for helping children to examine, evaluate and develop an individualized program to increase the child’s motor skills. These programs usually integrate various treatment approaches into entertaining “play” therapy techniques that enhance the child’s capabilities.
Our physical therapy team will evaluate and treat the following skill areas:
- Gross motor skills
- Muscle tone, strength and endurance
- Balance, coordination, and motor planning
- Range of motion
- Gait analysis and training
- Postural control, body alignment, mobility
- Adaptive equipment and assistive devices
Our physical therapy team will:
- Assess and treat
- Recommend strategies
- Recommend assistive equipment
- Provide education to caregivers
- Consult with other professionals regarding the role of physical
therapy and how it can improve the child’s daily life
- Collaborate with caregivers and child to create effective carry-over from
physical therapy sessions to home
Our goal is to improve strength, endurance, and mobility in order to promote independence.
SPEECH THERAPY
Speech therapists at Konfetti Kidz Therapy are licensed professionals that provide treatment of physical and/or cognitive difficulties relating to verbal and non-verbal communication, as well as, stuttering and voice disorders. In our pediatric speech therapy practice, we work with children and their families to improve the child’s overall oral and communication skills. Our therapists use their passion for helping children to examine, evaluate, and develop an individualized program to increase the child’s communication. These programs usually integrate various treatment approaches into entertaining “play” therapy techniques that enhance the child’s capabilities.
Our speech therapy team will evaluate and treat the following skill areas:
- Receptive Language
- Expressive Language
- Apraxia of Speech
- Articulation and Phonology
- Oral Motor
- Pragmatic/Social Language
- Memory
- Cognition
- Auditory Processing
- Fluency
Our speech therapy team will:
- Assess and treat
- Recommend strategies
- Recommend assistive equipment
- Provide education to caregivers
- Consult with other professionals regarding the role of speech
therapy and how it can improve the child’s daily life
- Collaborate with caregivers and child to create effective carry-over from speech therapy sessions to home
Our goal is to assist children in reaching their full developmental potential by improving their communication abilities.
Intensive Model of Therapy (IMOT)
In addition to traditional physical, occupational and speech-language therapy, Konfetti Kidz Therapy offers intensive-based evaluations, treatment, and education. Intensive therapy is based on the Intensive Model of Therapy (IMOT). IMOT is a unique therapeutic approach developed in Poland in the 1940s to treat children with cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders.
Our intensive therapy program uses a delivery model that consists of therapy for several hours a day, usually several weeks at a time. What a child progresses in a few weeks of intensive therapy can take an entire year with traditional therapy. The number of visits and structure of the intensive therapy can vary and is dependent on the particular needs of the child and situation. Children typically come to treatment 5 times per week, for approximately 2-6 hours with a break in the middle of the treatment. The plan of care is individualized depending on their age, diagnosis, medical history, parent goals, and current level of therapy engagement and the treatment choices are unique to those expectations. In Konfetti Kidz Therapy, we take a multidisciplinary approach to achieving a family’s goals, including Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech and Language Therapy. The session can last from 2 to 6 hours per day, depending on the child’s age, needs, condition, strengths, and weaknesses..
Intensive therapy provides the time needed for repetition to create new motor skills along with the assistance of utilizing specialized therapy tools, techniques, and modalities. Vital aspects of intensive interventions stress the repetition of skills and functionally-relevant practice which helps to accelerate the acquisition of each motor skill. Therapists can provide optimal doses of therapy during an intensive program to help enhance achievement of mobility, language, and cognitive skills. Parent education is an integral part of the intensive process and parents are encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible.
Please keep in mind that the sessions will be “work” for your child. You should take into consideration your child’s needs for napping, eating, and medication effects and other specific care needs. We can help with scheduling around these needs.
GROUP THERAPY
- Social Skills
