THERAPIES
Sora Pediatric Therapy offers many different therapies, including:
Speech Therapy
Indoor voices. Outdoor voices. Silly voices. Kids use all kinds of voices. We’re here to help guide them towards finding their voices so they can tell the world who they are.
Indicators for an evaluation:
You may want to seek out an evaluation if your child isn’t meeting these developmental milestones:
Babbling (6 months)
Gestures like waving/pointing (9-12 months)
Understanding 10+ object names (12 months)
50 word vocabulary (18 months)
Answers simple questions (2-3 years)
Asks simply questions (2-3 years)
Follows 2-step directions (3-4 years)
Speech is 50% understandable (2-3 years); and 90% (5 years)
Repeats first sounds of words, whole words in a sentence or stretches sounds within words (3years)
Shows awareness of feelings (3 years)
Introduces conversational topics (3 years)
Verbal turn taking (3 years)
Speech & language therapy services may address the following areas:
Language - Pediatric
Expressive Language Delay
Receptive Language Delay
Pragmatics
Alternative/Augmentative
Auditory Processing Disorders
Down Syndrome
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Oral Motor
Swallowing
Feeding
Oral Muscle Weakness
Speech - Pediatric
Articulation
Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Stuttering/Fluency
Phonological Delay
Voice (Vocal Cord Nodules)
Hypernasality
Hearing Loss
Cleft Lip/Palate
Cerebal Palsy
Our Speech-Language Pathologistshave experience and training in:
Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Target (PROMPT©)
Oral Myofunctional Therapy
Oral Placement Therapy/Talk Tools/Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson
Social Thinking®/Michelle Garcia Winner
LiPS® Phonetic Sequencing/Lindamood-Bell
Visualizing & Verbalizing®/Lindamood-Bell
Augmentative Communication
Cycles Approach/Hodson
Occupational Therapy
Kids want to be all in with everything they do. Sometimes they need extra support getting there. Whether it’s taking care of their bodies, getting dressed, navigating feelings, friends and school, or building some serious play skills, we’re here to help empower kids to own their everyday.
Indicators for an evaluation
You may want to seek out an evaluation if your child struggles with:
Grooming (baths, teeth/hair brushing, nail or hair cutting)
Cuddling
Tantrums
Transitions
Sleep
Bumping into things
Swinging/jumping/having feet off ground
Fine motor activities (coloring, puzzles, cutting)
Sensitivity to touch, taste, sound smells
Maintaining focus or excessive focus
Low muscle tone
Dressing/sensitivity to clothing
Handwriting
Clumsiness
Occupational therapy services may address the following areas:
Fine / Gross Motor Skills
Endurance
Coordination
Strength
Balance
Social / Emotional Skills
Self-Concept
Self-Control
Time Management
Emotional Regulation
Stress Management
Transitions
Social Participation
Activities of Daily Living
Grooming/Hygiene
Dressing
Academic Skills
Feeding
Writing
Play Skills
Cognition
Attention Span
Memory
Sequencing
Following Directions
Problem Solving
Sensory Integration
Tactile Processing (touch input)
Oral Processing (food or mouth)
Vestibular Processing (movement)
Olfactory Processing (smell)
Visual Processing (light)
Auditory Processing (sound)
Achieving Optimal Arousal
Our Occupational Therapists have experience and training in:
Deep Pressure and Proprioceptive Technique (Wilbarger brushing program)
Sequential-Oral-Sensory Feeding (S.O.S.)
Motor-Oral-Respiration-Eyes (M.O.R.E)
The Musgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration Method® (Therapist in training)
Visual / Vestibular Protocol
Physical Therapy
Kids lead a life in motion. We’re here to make sure their bodies learn to move the right way by improving strength, coordination, mobility and balance so that they’re able to take off running (or jumping).
Indicators for an evaluation
You may want to seek out an evaluation if your child struggles with:
Balance/coordination
Keeping up with their peers
Meeting developmental milestones
Atypical walking
Frequent falling/tripping
Toe walking
Running/jumping
Prefers turning head to one side (torticollis)
Physical therapy services help children:
Develop gross motor skills
Increase strength and endurance
Improve balance and coordination
Improve posture and core strength
Participate in their daily routines
Our Physical Therapists work with infants, children and teenagers with the following:
Delays in development
Torticollis
Cerebral Palsy
Down Syndrome & other genetic syndromes
Muscle diseases
Neurological disorders
Obesity
Toe walking
Our Physical Therapists have specialized training in:
Kinesio Taping
Torticollis treatment
Massage & manual techniques
Mobility training
My son wasn’t meeting his developmental milestones; he wasn’t rolling or crawling at 11 months old. As a parent, it’s so hard to watch your child miss these important bench markers and not know how to help. I felt a huge sense of relief after starting physical therapy because his therapist taught me how I could help him at home, and he thrived. My ‘happy sitter’ was now able to move and his world opened up.
Mighty Munchers - Pediatric Feeding Program
Meal times should be good times. We work hand in hand with families to build more adventurous eaters, strengthen feeding skills, and overcome sensory challenges so that sitting down together at the table feels fun again.
Indicators for an evaluation
Aversion to foods or food textures/groups
Transitioning from pureed to table foods
Mealtime behavior
Self-feeding
Drinking from an open cup after 2.5 years
Appropriate weight gain
Sucking, swallowing or chewing
Gagging, choking, coughing while eating
has a disorder that involves muscle weaknesses (e.g. Down syndrome or cerebral palsy)
Feeding Team Highlights
Multidisciplinary evaluation including speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists
Strong focus on family involvement and generalization of skills into the home environment
Therapists are trained in multiple oral motor/sensory/feeding approaches
Specialized program developed based on child’s needs
Individualized treatment sessions
Parent and family education
Consider an evaluation if your child has one or more of the following
Limited food range
Avoids certain food textures or food groups
Difficulty transitioning from pureed to table foods
Mealtimes are stressful and often prolonged
Tantrums or other problem mealtime behaviors
Delayed self-feeding skills
Difficulty drinking from an open cup after 2.5 years
Ongoing concerns with weight gain
Difficulty sucking, swallowing or chewing
Exhibits gagging, choking, and/or coughing during mealtimes
Child has been diagnosed with a disorder involving known muscle weakness components (e.g. Down Syndrome or Cerebral Palsy)
Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy
Orofacial Myofunctional therapy services address the following areas:
Tongue Thrust Swallow
The alteration of tongue and lip resting postures
Muscle retraining exercises
Modification of handling and swallowing of solids, liquids, and saliva
Thumb/Digit Sucking
Motivational program designed to help children discontinue sucking habits quickly, without coercion, in a fun and positive way
Five to six visits to the therapist
Extensive home-program