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When medically necessary, individual treatment is
recommended. Direct treatment is in a specially designed environment.
Consultation and home / school programs provided. Indirect treatment /
consultation is available for families out of the metro area. Some
therapeutic techniques include sensory integration; sensory-motor;
behavior management; neuro developmental; cranio-sacral; oral-motor;
therapeutic listening, interventions to enhance receptive and expressive
communication through use of speech, gesture, sign language, picture
exchange and provision of visual information.
The
occupational and speech therapists work together to reach for the
maximum functional outcome of the patient by coordinating sensory
modulation to promote attention and interaction, postural alignment
and control, support of respiratory muscles for
suck/swallow/breathe synchrony, somatosensory (touch) tolerance for
pre-feeding, hygiene and emotional stability, neuro-muscular
techniques for enhancing
muscle tone, joint stabilization, and reflex maturation, sensory
integrative techniques for motor planning ability, bilateral
integration and visual perception, oral-motor facilitation to
prepare mouth for functional use in feeding and talking, pragmatic
speech, auditory processing, articulation, and conversational
language.
Treatment is
designed to remediate deficit areas identified during the
evaluation. Treatment sessions are one hour at one or two times per
week. Significant progress can generally be seen after 2-6 months
of intervention. It is not uncommon for some children to benefit
for one to two years and with autism and other neurobiological
disorders they may continue to benefit from ongoing or periodic
intervention as they age and environmental demands increase.
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