Occupational Therapy:

Occupational Therapy examines the tasks facing a child on a daily basis, and what is affecting the child's ability to perform these tasks. Such tasks include self-care skills, social interaction with peers, fine motor skills for completion of age-appropriate craft or school skills, strength and endurance to be able to participate in age-appropriate motor activities, etc.

Occupational Therapy uses fun, engaging activities to help a child achieve his or her maximum potential through adaptation, environmental modification, or practice of newly acquired skills to be able to be a kid.

Speech Therapy:

Developing communication is a very important skill for children to be able to participate in our social world . Speech therapy services help a child become more independent in expressing needs and wants, interacting with family and peers, and developing social skills. Speech therapy can include one or more of the following communication areas:

• Expressive language: unable to form meaningful messages using age appropriate grammar or word finding difficulties.
• Receptive language: difficulty understanding what is being said to them.
• Articulation/speech: unable to produce age appropriate sounds.
• Social language: difficulties with turn taking, initiating and maintaining a conversation, repairing conversation breakdowns, perspective taking and interpreting non-verbal cues.
• Feeding and swallowing : difficulties swallowing liquids or food.
• Voice: disturbance of pitch, loudness or quality in relation to a individuals age, gender and culture.
• Oral Motor: difficulties with muscle function and/or motor planning that affect the individual's ability to eat, drink, or speak.
• APD(Auditory Processing Disorder): difficulties attending, poor listening skills, following multi-step directions, difficulties processing information, difficulty with reading, spelling and vocabulary.
• Augmentative : assisting non-verbal patient’s communication with a communication device or PECS (Picture Exchange System).

Rising Stars Children's Therapy, Inc. services children with the
following needs:

Attention Difficulties
Augmentative Communication
Basic Sign Language
Feeding Difficulties
Fine Motor Skills
Gross and Fine Motor Coordination
Handwriting Difficulties
Oral Motor Skills
Overall Strengthening
Sensory Integration Disorder
Social Interaction / Reciprocal Play Skills
Self-Care Skills
Visual Perceptual and Visual Motor Skills

We treat a variety of diagnoses and disorders, including:

ADD / ADHD
Apraxia
Asperger's Syndrome
Autism
Cerebral Palsy
Chromosomal Anomalies
Coordination Difficulties
Developmental Delay
Down's Syndrome
Feeding Disorders
Handwriting Difficulties
Hypotonia
Motor Planning Difficulties
Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD)
Sensory Integrative Dysfunction