Thrive Pediatric Therapy

Thrive Pediatric Therapy Pediatric therapy center providing speech/language therapy, feeding therapy, & occupational therapy

Making feeding therapy fun helps little ones feel safe, curious, and confident around new foods.We celebrate every small...
11/12/2025

Making feeding therapy fun helps little ones feel safe, curious, and confident around new foods.
We celebrate every small step — because progress starts with play! 🌟🍎

Swipe for ideas for how you too can make food fun with your child! With lots of love, exposure, and fun your child can learn about new foods!

🇺🇸 Honoring Our Heroes 🇺🇸Today, we pause to honor the brave men and women who have served our country with courage, stre...
11/11/2025

🇺🇸 Honoring Our Heroes 🇺🇸

Today, we pause to honor the brave men and women who have served our country with courage, strength, and dedication.
We are deeply grateful for the sacrifices made by our veterans and their families.

To all who have served — thank you. 💙❤️

11/08/2025

Today, our team at Thrive Pediatric Therapy proudly joined the Down Syndrome Awareness Walk in support of one of our amazing patients and their family! 💫

We’re so grateful to be part of a community that celebrates every child’s unique strengths and potential. Events like this remind us why we do what we do — helping each child thrive in their own way. 🌟

11/08/2025

🍂 Learning About Fall — Inside and Out! 🍁

This season is full of colors, textures, and opportunities for learning! Our speech and occupational therapists are bringing fall fun into every session — both indoors and outdoors.

✨ For Speech Therapy:
We’re exploring new fall vocabulary like crunchy, bumpy, smooth, and colorful! Kids love describing leaves, talking about their favorite fall activities, and practicing categories like things that change in fall or types of trees and colors.

🖐️ For Occupational Therapy:
Little hands get to build fine motor skills by scooping, sorting, and crumpling paper leaves, making leaf rubbings, or collecting leaves outside for sensory play. Each activity helps strengthen coordination, sensory processing, and handwriting readiness — all while having fun!

🌳 Whether we’re inside creating a fall sensory bin or outside exploring the changing colors, every moment is a chance to learn, move, and grow.

11/05/2025

🎶 Why Songs Help Build Language 🐰💬

Songs like “Hop Little Bunnies” aren’t just adorable — they’re powerful tools for language development!

Here’s why music makes such a difference:
🎵 Repetition builds understanding – Hearing the same words and phrases in songs helps children recognize and learn new vocabulary.
👂 Rhythm supports listening skills – Music helps children notice patterns in speech, an important step for early language development.
👐 Movement reinforces meaning – When little ones hop, jump, or sleep along with the song, they connect words to actions — and learning sticks!
💛 Connection encourages communication – Singing together builds shared joy and interaction — the foundation for language growth.

So next time you sing “Hop Little Bunnies,” know that you’re not just having fun — you’re helping your child’s communication blossom! 🌼✨

💬 AAC Awareness Month was this October! 💙We love sharing and celebrating AAC — Augmentative and Alternative Communicatio...
11/04/2025

💬 AAC Awareness Month was this October! 💙

We love sharing and celebrating AAC — Augmentative and Alternative Communication — and the many incredible communicators who use it!

What is AAC?
AAC stands for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. It includes all the ways someone can communicate beyond speaking — from gestures, facial expressions, and sign language to picture boards, speech-generating devices, and communication apps.

AAC gives children a voice — helping them share their thoughts, make choices, connect with others, and be understood. 💛

There’s a common myth that AAC replaces speech, but that’s not true! In fact, AAC often supports and encourages verbal language development.

We celebrate our amazing AAC users, families, and therapists who make communication possible in so many creative and meaningful ways. 🗣️✨

Every child deserves a voice — and AAC helps make that happen. 💬💙

11/03/2025

Share your photos from Halloween fun in the comments!

Happy Halloween to all of our families and especially those who celebrated with us last week! We are grateful to be able to have so much fun with our families! With so many treats, crafts, and food fun we celebrated with spooky costumes and silly smiles! Share your costumes and Halloween fun with us! 🎃👻🍭

Happy birthday to an amazing occupational therapist, Mrs. Katie!! We hope you have an incredible birthday and know today...
11/02/2025

Happy birthday to an amazing occupational therapist, Mrs. Katie!! We hope you have an incredible birthday and know today and every day how loved and appreciated you are by many!

🎃👻 Get Ready for a SPOOK-tacular Therapy Week! 👻🎃Halloween is around the corner, and we’re bringing the FUN into therapy...
10/24/2025

🎃👻 Get Ready for a SPOOK-tacular Therapy Week! 👻🎃

Halloween is around the corner, and we’re bringing the FUN into therapy!
From October 27th–31st, we’re inviting all our kiddos to:

✨ Wear their costumes to their therapy sessions!
🍬 Join us for trick-or-treating through the clinic!
🎲 Enjoy Halloween-themed therapy games and activities!

Costumes are OPTIONAL!

Our team is so excited to turn therapy into a week of magical, silly, spooky FUN — while still working on all those amazing goals! 💪🧠

We can’t wait to see our superheroes, princesses, pumpkins, dinosaurs, and everything in between! 🧡

Smile — you’re doing great 💛At Thrive, we love sharing tips, strategies, and tools to help your little ones grow.But tod...
10/20/2025

Smile — you’re doing great 💛

At Thrive, we love sharing tips, strategies, and tools to help your little ones grow.
But today, this message is just for you.

Parenting isn’t easy — especially when you’re juggling appointments, progress charts, and big emotions (theirs and yours). We see how hard you advocate. We see your patience, your late-night Googling, your quiet victories.

And we just want to remind you…

✨ You’re doing better than you think.
✨ Your effort matters.
✨ Your child is lucky to have you.

So take a deep breath and smile — you’re doing great. 💙

🎃 Pumpkin Play for Developmental Growth! 🎃Looking for festive fall activities that also support your child’s development...
10/18/2025

🎃 Pumpkin Play for Developmental Growth! 🎃
Looking for festive fall activities that also support your child’s development? Here are some pumpkin-themed ideas from our therapy team that make learning FUN!

🖐 Occupational Therapy Pumpkin Activities

• Pumpkin Scrub & Wash Station: Use sponges, toothbrushes, and scrubbers to clean muddy pumpkins — great for tactile exploration and hand strength!
• Pumpkin Hammering: Push golf tees or pegs into a pumpkin using a toy hammer to build fine motor skills.
• Pumpkin Seed Transfer: Scoop and tweeze pumpkin seeds from one bowl to another for pincer grasp practice.

🗣 Speech & Language Pumpkin Fun

• Pumpkin Vocabulary Hunt: Explore pumpkins of different sizes and colors — describe them using words like bumpy, smooth, heavy, tiny!
• “Feed the Pumpkin” Game: Cut a mouth in a cardboard pumpkin and “feed” it picture cards or toy foods while naming or requesting items.
• Pumpkin Story Time: Read pumpkin books and ask “wh” questions — What happened? Where is the pumpkin going?

🍽 Feeding Therapy Pumpkin Ideas

• Pumpkin Taste Test: Try pumpkin in different forms — puree, roasted, yogurt, muffin — and explore new textures at your child’s pace.
• Pumpkin Spice Smell Jars: Introduce safe-smelling spices like cinnamon or nutmeg to build sensory tolerance.
• Pumpkin Baking: Let your child help pour and stir ingredients to encourage participation in meal prep!

👩‍👧 Whether your child is working on sensory tolerance, motor skills, language, or feeding — pumpkins offer endless opportunities for learning through play!

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144 College Street
Gallatin, TN
37066

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm

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