The ultimate goal of therapy is to increase an individual's independence, function, and improve their quality of life. We treat children with a wide variety of diagnoses, including, but not limited to: musculoskeletal conditions, developmental delay, autism spectrum disorders, neurological conditions, genetic disorders, and traumatic brain injury.
Our therapists can help children improve with:
strength and coordination
gross motor skills
wheelchair seating and position
and equipment assessment
classroom and home accessibility and mobility
self-care skills
handwriting and drawing skills
fine motor and visual perceptual skills
vestibular and balance problems
developmental language and speech disorders
oral motor and feeding disorders
augmentative and alternative communication
stuttering/fluency disorders
Growing Places Therapy provides a full range of pediatric physical, occupational and speech therapy services in your child's home, school, or daycare settings.
Evaluation
Depending on your child's needs, assessments can be comprehensive to evaluate multiple developmental areas (fine and gross motor development, visual-perceptual skills, sensory processing, play and social skills) or targeted to evaluate specific areas of difficulty (i.e. fine motor skills, balance, handwriting). To fully understand your child's strengths and challenges, we typically employ standardized assessment tools, clinical observations, classroom observations, and parent/teacher interviews.
Individual Treatment Sessions
Services are provided according to your child's individualized treatment plan in the setting determined to be most beneficial. Treatment sessions include discussions/consultations with the parent, caregiver, or teacher.
Consultations
If deemed valuable, the therapist may observe your child in other environments such as camp or extracurricular activities and/or may attend school meetings, etc.
Home Programs
We believe that the parent/caregiver plays a vital role in ensuring the success of their child. Our therapists emphasize caregiver training and will design a personalized home program specific to your child and easy to incorporate into daily life.
In addition to these traditional services, Growing Places Therapy offers therapeutic swimming and yoga instruction.
We serve children in Austin and surrounding areas which include: Buda, Cedar Park, Dripping Springs, Georgetown, Kyle, Round Rock, and others.