Treatment

Based on assessment results, the therapist may recommend individual therapy if medically necessary. Typical therapy sessions are 60 minutes in length 1-2x/week. Treatment sessions are provided on an individual basis, with one clinician treating one client, in a specially designed environment with interventions designed to remediate deficit areas identified during the evaluation. We can also provide consultation for home and school programs and indirect treatment/consultation is available for families out of the metro area.

Most children enjoy the time they spend at Metro Therapy. Therapy may look just like play time for your child, but the therapist will carefully select and direct activities to focus on your child's needs. Therapy can be hard work for both families and children, but is also very rewarding and fun. 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 of treatment and some children may continue to benefit from ongoing or periodic intervention as they age and environmental demands increase.

Some examples of occupational therapeutic techniques include sensory integration, sensory-motor, behavior management, neuro-developmental, cranio-sacral, oral-motor, and therapeutic listening. Some examples of speech-language therapeutic techniques include interventions to enhance receptive and expressive communication (through use of speech, gesture, sign language, picture exchange and provision of visual information), oral-motor, and social skills. 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.