Free Screening
Why Should Your Child Be Screened?
The purpose of a screening is to find out if there are areas of concern that may need additional evaluation. If an evaluation is not found to be necessary, therapists will give parents suggestions to work with the child to address areas of concern. We are glad to schedule a re-screening in the future to discuss progress with the parent.
What is a Developmental Screening?
A screening involves a therapist broadly and informally looking for age appropriate skills and determines if services are recommended. The therapists will talk to the parent about what they see at home, as well as why they are concerned. Screenings are based primarily on observation and parent report, do not include standardized testing, and are less detailed than a full evaluation. All screenings are FREE of charge and last about thirty minutes.
SCREENING SERVICES:
Occupational Therapy
- Activities of daily living (self-help skills)
- Feeding and oral motor needs
- Handwriting skills
- Play and social skills
- Self-regulation and attention deficit
Physical Therapy
- Gross motor development
- Strengthening and endurance
- Posture and body alignment
- Balance and coordination
- Movement and mobility
Speech Therapy
- Receptive and expressive language delays
- Oral motor/feeding
- Cognition (attention, sequencing and problem solving)
- Articulation – speech sounds
- Social skills
- Cognition (sequencing, problem solving)
- Stuttering
Counseling
- Emotional regulation
- Coping skills
- ADHD/Focus
- Anger management
- Depression
- OCD
- Impulse control
- Overcoming fears
- Self-esteem and self-advocacy
- Trauma
ABA Therapy
- Autism diagnosis required*
- Social communication and social interactions
- Social-emotional reciprocity
- Non-verbal communicative behaviors
- Developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships
- Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, activities
- Repetitive motor movements, use of objects, or speech
- Distress at small changes and difficulties in transitions
- Fixed interests
- Hyper- or Hypo- reactivity to sensory input