Approved Interventions

Speech Therapy: Therapeutic treatment to facilitate improved oral motor, feeding, articulation, language comprehension and social communication skills.

Occupational Therapy: A branch of rehabilitative health that is used to facilitate engagement in meaningful activities of daily life (self-care, education and social interaction), fine motor skills, and sensory integration.

Physical Therapy: A branch of rehabilitative health that uses specially designed exercises and equipment to facilitate gross motor development.

Hippotherapy: A treatment modality that utilizes equine (horse) movement to achieve physical, occupational and/or speech therapy treatment goals.

DIR Floortime: The DIR (Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based) treatment model helps children master the building blocks of relating, communicating, and thinking within meaningful relationships and activities in a play based format following the lead and interests of the child.

RDI Therapy: The RDI (Relationship Development Intervention) treatment model helps children capture and compile critical memories that systematically build social communicative competence and flexible thinking in more complex environments.

ABA (Behavioral Home Therapy): A treatment model that teaches cognitive, language, and motor skills by breaking them down into very small steps and systematically prompting and reinforcing responses to highly specific, discrete instruction/stimuli.

Interactive Metronome: A computer based treatment modality that trains optimal neuronal firing to improve neurological processes of attention, motor planning, and sequencing with functional improvements in language, communication, reading and math.

Therapeutic Listening: A listening program that utilizes filtered frequency principles of auditory integration to facilitate integration of the auditory and vestibular systems and auditory desensitization to promote improved sensory integration, attention, articulation, communication and motor planning.

Graduate Student Aid: A home therapy aid enrolled in an applicable university program related to children with special needs who provides specific treatment in the home setting under the supervision and training of a certified clinician in the area applicable to the graduate student’s education.  Graduate Student Aids help children receive the recommended 20-30 hours per week of intensive speech, occupational therapy, behavioral, DIR/Floortime and RDI treatments.

Bio/Neuro Feedback: Neurofeedback or EEG Biofeedback is a computer based treatment program using a series of sensors placed on the head and ear to evaluate brain waves.  This feedback is displayed in the form of games on the computer monitor.  Modified brainwave activity through Bio/Neuro Feedback  improves attention, anxiety, depression, aggression, and impulsivity.