Pediatric Therapy Service

06/16/2025

06/06/2025

Please feel free to share as we now have immediate openings.

05/26/2025

PTS is closed today for Memorial Day! We will see you all tomorrow! 🇺🇸❤️💙

04/02/2025

❤️ Today is World Autism Day! April is Autism Awareness & Acceptance Month!

We are celebrating all individuals on the autism spectrum… Today and EVERY day! ♾️💙

03/21/2025

Happy World Down Syndrome Day 💙💛

03/17/2025

Calling the leprechauns to ask if sitting in a green chair counts? … and to tell them that pinching isn’t nice!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀🌈

03/02/2025

📣 We are Hiring!

We’re looking for a Physical Therapist and a Speech Language Pathologist to join our team! If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you!

Call, text, or email us using the contact information in the picture below, OR click the following links to access the job listings on Indeed!

Physical Therapist
https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?from=appshareios&jk=1700c95d117b2d88

Speech Language Pathologist
https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?from=appshareios&jk=79dacf6e662990c2

02/20/2025

PTS will be CLOSED tomorrow, February 20th, due to hazardous road conditions and extreme temperatures. Stay warm and safe ❄️☃️

02/19/2025

Due to hazardous road conditions and extreme temperatures from last night’s winter storm, PTS is CLOSED today! Stay warm and safe ❄️

01/22/2025

SENSORY SWING SELFIES 📸🩵

The swing in our sensory room is a fan FAVORITE for many of our patients at PTS. But did you know that the swing actually has many benefits that positively impact children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development? Swinging is not only a fun activity, but a very beneficial factor of playtime. Swinging helps with:

⭐️ Muscle development and enhancing coordination and motor planning:
- Swinging actively engages muscle groups throughout the body, including the core, arms, and legs! Swinging also requires coordination, balance, and precise movement planning.

⭐️ Promoting emotional regulation and sensory enrichment:
- By providing vestibular, proprioceptive, and rhythmic movement which can be calming, aid stress reduction, and promote emotional regulation. Swinging enriches sensory experiences, often supporting sensory integration and processing, which is especially beneficial for children with sensory sensitivities.

⭐️ Improving focus and engagement:
- The repetitive motion of swinging helps improve children's focus and attention during therapy sessions. This is especially helpful in speech therapy to help built vocabulary. Speech therapists can target multimodal communication goals such as use of AAC, use of gestures and sign language, and use of verbal words and sounds such as “go”, “stop”, “spin”, “wee”, “yay”, “more”, “done”, and “swing”!

⭐️ Elevating mood and building connections:
- By stimulating the release of endorphins, swinging increases feelings of happiness and well-being, overall contributing to improved mood and social interactions. This can have a great impact on the relationship and connections built between the child and their therapist.

⭐️ Improving body awareness:
- Swinging heightens children's awareness of their body's position and movement, promoting skill mastery and injury prevention during play.

01/21/2025

BALL PIT SELFIES 📸🤩🟣

Do you know what skills can be targeted while playing in the ball pit? Let’s talk about it!

🔴 Sensory awareness including:
- Proprioceptive sensory input: Helps with sensory regulation and focus.
- Tactile senses: Moving through the ball pit helps children develop their tactile senses.
- Spatial awareness: Navigating through a ball pit and manipulating the balls helps develop spatial awareness and depth perception.
- Visual senses: The colors and movement of the balls provide visual stimulation.

🟠 Gross and fine motor skills: Developing strength in large and small muscles.

🟡 Language and social skills including:
- Expressive language skills: Building vocabulary, learning to label colors and objects, and requesting desired items.
- Receptive language: Learning to take turns, answer questions, responding to gestures, follow directions, and understand basic concepts (big/small, up/down, in/out)
- Communication: Learning to express thoughts and feelings.
- Sharing: Learning to share objects and space.

🟢 Balance and coordination: Jumping into and moving around in a ball pit helps with developing muscles children need for balance and coordination.

🔵 Cognitive Development including:
- Cause and effect: Learning cause and effect by observing what happens when they throw a ball.
- Object permanence: Learning object permanence (understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight).

01/20/2025

Two thumbs up for decreasing food aversions in Occupational Therapy 👍👍