Going Above and Beyond

● The Listening Program™

●Aquatic Therapy

●Groups and Programs

The Listening Program™

The Listening Program is a music-based auditory stimulation method that trains the brain to improve the auditory skills needed to effectively listen, learn, and communicate. The Listening Program can benefit many different types of people including the typically developing child and individuals experiencing listening, sensory, learning, language, reading, attention, memory, social, communication, and auditory processing difficulties. Paradigm has speech therapists who are specially trained to administer the Listening Program™ to any child who may benefit from this program.

Aquatic Therapy

Aquatic Therapy is a unique approach to therapy that is fun and offers significant benefits, that are not always possible with land-based therapy. While the child is in the warm water it lessens the effects of gravity and reduces their body weight up to 90%. This reduces the danger of overexertion and encourages relaxation. While in our warm-water therapy pool each child works with an aquatic-trained occupational, physical, or speech therapist. The emphasis of the aquatic therapy program is on skill acquisition for land-based age appropriate activities including motor planning, coordination, strength and endurance.

Aquatic Therapy is especially helpful for children who have:

• traumatic injuries

• bone, joint or muscle disorders

• neurological and developmental disorders

• sensory processing/integration disorders

• connective tissue diseases

• orthopedic injuries

Aquatic Therapy often provides children with an increased sense of self-esteem and accomplishment because the water allows children to perform and facilitate movements that would otherwise be too difficult on land.

 Groups

Focused groups offer children the opportunity to build social skills and friendships. This is a benefit unique to group therapy sessions.  All  groups are facilitated by therapists at Paradigm.

• Dainty Diners

Is you child a picky eater? Sign up today for our Dainty Diner program and help your child learn to eat a balanced diet that will help them meet their nutritional needs.

• PipSqueaks

This group is designed for children to explore a variety of movements. The activities will enhance their balance, strength, coordination, and motor planning skills. Children will have fun running, jumping, and climbing while improving their movement skills and overall physical fitness

• Speech Group

(For children 2-4 years of age.)

The focus for this play group will be developing oral/motor skills through a variety of planned activities.

• Toddler Time

(For children 18-36 months.)

Toddlers take part in activities that build confidence, independence, and self-esteem. Themes vary from week to week and lessons range from arts to social skills development.

Programs

• Sensory Integration Program

Our program addresses all issues related to sensory integration dysfunction. Sensory Integration Dysfunction is the brain's ability to interpret and organize information from the senses- vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, balance, gravity, position, and movement. Problems in sensory integration may result in learning difficulties, hyperactivity, distractibility, poor coordination, and balance, behavior problems and may contribute to difficulties in school and play. This program is also very beneficial for children with diagnoses' of PDD, ADD, or Autism.

• Feeding Program

Any child who may have difficulty eating or is unable to tolerate oral feedings will benefit from this program.

• Adaptive Equipment Program

This program determines what a child needs, such as wheelchairs, orthotics, prosthetics, ambulation devices and communication devices. Paradigm will also help to acquire this equipment.

• Apraxia/Oral Motor Program

Oral-Verbal Apraxia is the inability to coordinate movements for speech. Our program uses specially trained staff and techniques to facilitate smooth, coordinated movement of the tongue, lips, and jaw for improved speech production.

Language and Listening Programs

• Fast ForWord®

• Earobics®

• Auditory Integration

• Literacy

 

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