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          • Aquatic Therapy is designed to benefit children by working on therapeutic skills in a gravity assisted environment. The pool setting offers a variety of water-based activities that enhance or restore mobility and function in a warm water environment.

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          • Our therapists will find fun and creative ways to improve your child’s gross motor skills and improve their ability to perform functional daily activities.

    • Occupational Therapy
          • Daily life “occupations”, AKA activities, for children include everything from playing, dressing, feeding, and bathing to handwriting and social interactions. Occupational therapists help to improve a child’s performance and participation in all of those activities.

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          • Teletherapy is therapy via a live video connection. The treatment session is similar to an in-person session, however it is over a computer (or other device) instead!

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          • Unleash your potential with our dynamic Yoga and Fitness Boot Camp! Our transformative 45-minute sessions offer children and young adults the chance to enhance their flexibility, body awareness, and extend their range of motion. Experience the magic of focused training and improve your posture like never before. Come dressed in your comfy attire, lace-up your tennis shoes, and don’t forget your water bottle. Elevate your fitness journey with us today!

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          • Summer break is an amazing time for kids, but as parents/guardians, we can’t help but worry that all this time off from school will cause their skills to fall behind. This concern is amplified for kids with developmental and physical diagnoses. That’s why we have crafted clinician-led summer programs throughout all our clinics. For our 2024 summer programming, kids can work on improving gross and fine motor skills, physical fitness, range of motion, language skills, handwriting, and picky eating issues! Now they can increase their therapy skills and have fun while doing it!

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        • We collaborate with local community organizations such as libraries or daycares to arrange for trained and licensed therapists to conduct developmental screenings at their location.

        • Developmental Power Hour
        • This is a free informational group for families with children aged 0-15 months! Our team provides an hourlong presentation, followed by a Q&A session. Additionally, on-site developmental screenings are available upon request.

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Occupational, Physical, and Speech Therapy Skills Holiday 2022 Gift Guide

With the holiday seasons coming up, we felt inspired to share our favorite gift recommendations!  We’ve broken them into separate categories, corresponding with what therapy skills can be worked with the item. Our very own clinicians shared their favorite toys and offered tips and tricks in how to use them!

Physical Therapy Skills

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1. Sturdy Birdy by Fat Brains

Unlike any other game you’ve ever seen, Sturdy Birdy challenges your child on a physical level while encouraging counting skills, self-esteem, and more! Expect increased balance, coordination, core strength, and a lift to the corners of the lips the moment you start playing Sturdy Birdy.

2. Melissa and Doug- Garden Basket Set

The Garden play basket allows for children to practice important motor skills using their full bodies as they play, dig, plant, and more! This is a great set to get kids moving and active in and outdoors! The set also promotes practice of balance, coordination, and core strength.

3. Melissa and Doug- Town Vehicles

Pushing and pulling small toy cars and trucks around helps kids develop their fine motor skills. As they hold on to the cars and move them around, they’re strengthening their muscles and dexterity. Toy cars also help them improve their hand eye coordination as they learn to control the car with one hand while putting up signs with the other one.

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Dream and draw! All it takes is some creativity and some water! This mat is HUGE at 4×3 ft and has NO MESS. Promotes pre-writing skills and pencil grasp!

Use this push mower to encourage outside garden play! It features realistic sounds and a bubble marker, a flexible handle to hold on to, and bright fun colors! Perfect for kids that love to be outside!

This no-pedal balance bike is the perfect gift for kiddos developing strong gross motor and spatial skills like balance, motion, and coordination!

This musical mat is made of non-woven fabric that both comfortable, durable, and easy to clean! We love the musical piano mat for working on hand-feet coordination skills.

The six chunky shape blocks are each designed with fascinating textures that are sure to thrill the fingers. There’s a cube, a diamond, a sphere, a triangle, a flower, and the happy Fat Brain logo. This is a great toy for fine motor skills, tactile exploration, and experimentation!

Each step makes the wheels roll half a rotation forward. At first, the movement feels clunky as kiddos try to find a balance between gravity, momentum, and force. This toy gives a fun challenge in coordination and balance while encouraging gross motor skills, concentration, and active play!

This spinning pole-hopping game transforms into a spinning ring-toss game! It spins at 2 different speeds, and the pole heights can be adjusted to 3 different heights for boosting the challenge! It is good for gross motor skills, coordination, cooperative play, and active play.

Physical Therapy Skills

1. Sturdy Birdy by Fat Brains

Unlike any other game you’ve ever seen, Sturdy Birdy challenges your child on a physical level while encouraging counting skills, self-esteem, and more! Expect increased balance, coordination, core strength, and a lift to the corners of the lips the moment you start playing Sturdy Birdy.

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2. Melissa and Doug- Garden Basket Set

The Garden play basket allows for children to practice important motor skills using their full bodies as they play, dig, plant, and more! This is a great set to get kids moving and active in and outdoors! The set also promotes practice of balance, coordination, and core strength.

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3. Melissa and Doug- Town Vehicles

Pushing and pulling small toy cars and trucks around helps kids develop their fine motor skills. As they hold on to the cars and move them around, they’re strengthening their muscles and dexterity. Toy cars also help them improve their hand eye coordination as they learn to control the car with one hand while putting up signs with the other one.

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Dream and draw! All it takes is some creativity and some water! This mat is HUGE at 4×3 ft and has NO MESS. Promotes pre-writing skills and pencil grasp!

Use this push mower to encourage outside garden play! It features realistic sounds and a bubble marker, a flexible handle to hold on to, and bright fun colors! Perfect for kids that love to be outside!

This no-pedal balance bike is the perfect gift for kiddos developing strong gross motor and spatial skills like balance, motion, and coordination!

This musical mat is made of non-woven fabric that both comfortable, durable, and easy to clean! We love the musical piano mat for working on hand-feet coordination skills.

The six chunky shape blocks are each designed with fascinating textures that are sure to thrill the fingers. There’s a cube, a diamond, a sphere, a triangle, a flower, and the happy Fat Brain logo. This is a great toy for fine motor skills, tactile exploration, and experimentation!

Each step makes the wheels roll half a rotation forward. At first, the movement feels clunky as kiddos try to find a balance between gravity, momentum, and force. This toy gives a fun challenge in coordination and balance while encouraging gross motor skills, concentration, and active play!

This spinning pole-hopping game transforms into a spinning ring-toss game! It spins at 2 different speeds, and the pole heights can be adjusted to 3 different heights for boosting the challenge! It is good for gross motor skills, coordination, cooperative play, and active play.

Occupational Therapy Skill Gifts

1. Melissa and Doug-Scratch Art Deluxe Combo

Using the wooden stylus, kids can reveal their creativity with a simple scratch. It’s a great introduction to scratch art and is easy to use while working on fine motor skills and hand eye coordination.

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2. Honey Bee Tree

The Honey Bee Tree is a favorite not only because it is a blast to play, but it also teaches children hand-eye coordination, strategic thinking, and dexterity. If they’re not thinking and acting carefully, they’ll let all the bees out of the hive!

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3. Squigz

Squigz can be used to target fine motor strengthening, visual motor coordination, crossing midline and also provides proprioceptive input, in terms of sensory processing, they target a variety of areas: prop, tactile (feel of them), visual (bright colors), auditory (pop noise).

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Kiddos race, relay-style, to stack and serve the pile of pancakes that match their menu cards. This game teaches following a sequence, beginning math skills, encourages social skills from teamwork to being a good sport. It is a fun physical game and a great energy outlet! Our occupational therapists love this for gross motor skills, balance, and coordination, body awareness, and visual perception skills!

With this game, kiddos will push the pirate into the barrel and then take turns sliding one of their swords into the slots. But beware! If the pirate pops up, you’re out! Only one slot will make the pirate pop, and it changes every time!

This game encourages cooperative play, cause-effect learning, and imaginative thinking! Our OT department specially loves it because it works on fine motor coordination and direction following!

Designed with loose magnets built into every edge of every shape, kids can connect and build the tiles into nearly anything they can imagine! Shapes, buildings, vehicles, abstract structures – Anything is possible! Our team uses them to build visual perceptual skills, hand eye coordination, improve direction following, and help our patients recognize shapes/colors.

We use a lot of Melissa & Dug puzzles throughout our clinics! Not only are puzzles in general great for visual perceptual skills, direction following and fine motor coordination, specific type of puzzles can be used to work on different things. We use the small knob ones for pincer grasp, the large knob ones for beginner grasping, and the shape sorters for visual scanning and in and out play.

Our OTs love Play-Doh!  It is a great tool to build fine motor strength and for sensory exploration. Some things you can do with Play-Doh are; roll balls between the thumb and pointer/middle fingers, create an obstacle course for fingers, form letters, push pegs into it, and many more! The great versatility makes this a good gift for every kid!

We use these toys from Learning Resources to build matching skills, bilateral coordination, and fine motor strength. They even come in different animals and shapes!

These 3 plush shapes stimulate a baby’s senses, promote early learning, and encourage sensory awareness and fine motor skills!

Occupational Therapy Skills

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1. Melissa and Doug-Scratch Art Deluxe Combo

Using the wooden stylus, kids can reveal their creativity with a simple scratch. It’s a great introduction to scratch art and is easy to use while working on fine motor skills and hand eye coordination.

2. Honey Bee Tree

The Honey Bee Tree is a favorite not only because it is a blast to play, but it also teaches children hand-eye coordination, strategic thinking, and dexterity. If they’re not thinking and acting carefully, they’ll let all the bees out of the hive!

3. Squigz

Squigz can be used to target fine motor strengthening, visual motor coordination, crossing midline and also provides proprioceptive input, in terms of sensory processing, they target a variety of areas: prop, tactile (feel of them), visual (bright colors), auditory (pop noise).

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Kiddos race, relay-style, to stack and serve the pile of pancakes that match their menu cards. This game teaches following a sequence, beginning math skills, encourages social skills from teamwork to being a good sport. It is a fun physical game and a great energy outlet! Our occupational therapists love this for gross motor skills, balance, and coordination, body awareness, and visual perception skills!

With this game, kiddos will push the pirate into the barrel and then take turns sliding one of their swords into the slots. But beware! If the pirate pops up, you’re out! Only one slot will make the pirate pop, and it changes every time!

This game encourages cooperative play, cause-effect learning, and imaginative thinking! Our OT department specially loves it because it works on fine motor coordination and direction following!

Designed with loose magnets built into every edge of every shape, kids can connect and build the tiles into nearly anything they can imagine! Shapes, buildings, vehicles, abstract structures – Anything is possible! Our team uses them to build visual perceptual skills, hand eye coordination, improve direction following, and help our patients recognize shapes/colors.

We use a lot of Melissa & Dug puzzles throughout our clinics! Not only are puzzles in general great for visual perceptual skills, direction following and fine motor coordination, specific type of puzzles can be used to work on different things. We use the small knob ones for pincer grasp, the large knob ones for beginner grasping, and the shape sorters for visual scanning and in and out play.

Our OTs love Play-Doh!  It is a great tool to build fine motor strength and for sensory exploration. Some things you can do with Play-Doh are; roll balls between the thumb and pointer/middle fingers, create an obstacle course for fingers, form letters, push pegs into it, and many more! The great versatility makes this a good gift for every kid!

We use these toys from Learning Resources to build matching skills, bilateral coordination, and fine motor strength. They even come in different animals and shapes!

These 3 plush shapes stimulate a baby’s senses, promote early learning, and encourage sensory awareness and fine motor skills!

Speech Therapy Skills

1. Melissa and Doug- Take Along Farm

 Set up a bridge, a barn with silo, and a grain house! Wooden play pieces include trees, animals, and hay bales to enhance imaginative storytelling. All the pieces store in the fold-up case with convenient carrying handle for easy cleanup and travel (there’s plenty of room to add other toys, too!). Keep playtime rolling for kids three and older and encourage independent play and motor skill development.

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2. Plugzy

Your little one plugged into learning early with their new best friend, Plugzy. Plugzy’s unique shape-sorting experience allows children to work on fine motor skills, sensory learning, spatial reasoning, shape-matching, and exploration!

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3. Alphabet Stamps

Kiddos can use the four-color stamp pad and 71 sturdy wooden-handled rubber stamps to complete a fun-filled 25-page activity book to practice reading, writing, and early math skills. Create cards, personalize art projects, notebooks, and more with upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation stamps!

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pipSquigz are fun little suckers for ages 6 months and up. Adored by baby and parents alike, they are perfect for the stroller, highchair, bathtub, and travel! Our speech therapists use them for target words in actions (pull, put on, give, get, pop) prepositions (on, off) others (colors, bumpy/smooth) feeding (play with purees, bring to mouth, chew/explore orally)

Bilibo is anything your child can imagine. A turtle shell. A sand scooper. A water bucket. A rescue helmet. A hero mask. A wobbly, spinning seat. A giant cereal bowl. An impenetrable home base for action figures. We use these in our clinics to help with core strength in aid of independent and safe feeding skills.

This extra-large muslin swaddling blanket is silky soft, made of 70% bamboo viscose and 30% cotton, becomes even softer with use, comes pre-washed, and can be used in so many different ways. This is our preferred swaddle for feeding!

This is a perfect baby shower gift! One side of the double-sided flip-top cap of each Munch Mini features soft, textured silicone for baby to suckle on, while the opposite side provides soft fabric to protect baby from fingernail scratches.

This 100% food-grade silicone, flexible, cube with textured edges that easily soothe sore gums is one of our favorite chew toys! The geometric design provides easy grip for baby’s hands. And hidden inside is a rattling cube covered with vivid, stimulating patterns and a bright, shiny mirror. Use this to enhance oral motor skills!

Pull the pole from the base to watch all the discs tumble to the ground; keep on spinning and stacking again and again; flip the base to choose either wobbly or sturdy; practice sorting discs by color, shape, and size. Great for action target words (go, spin, stuck) prepositions (on, up, and down) others (more, colors, big/small)

Spot It! Helps develop focus, visual perception skills, speech-language skills, and fine motor skills. Players of all ages will enjoy the engaging, tactile gameplay.

Speech Therapy Skills

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1. Melissa and Doug- Take Along Farm

 Set up a bridge, a barn with silo, and a grain house! Wooden play pieces include trees, animals, and hay bales to enhance imaginative storytelling. All the pieces store in the fold-up case with convenient carrying handle for easy cleanup and travel (there’s plenty of room to add other toys, too!). Keep playtime rolling for kids three and older and encourage independent play and motor skill development.

2. Plugzy

Your little one plugged into learning early with their new best friend, Plugzy. Plugzy’s unique shape-sorting experience allows children to work on fine motor skills, sensory learning, spatial reasoning, shape-matching, and exploration!

3. Alphabet Stamps

Kiddos can use the four-color stamp pad and 71 sturdy wooden-handled rubber stamps to complete a fun-filled 25-page activity book to practice reading, writing, and early math skills. Create cards, personalize art projects, notebooks, and more with upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation stamps!

USE PROMOCODE "HOLIDAY15" FOR 15% OFF ALL ROCK SHOP TOYS AT WE ROCK THE SPECTRUM - MILWAUKEE. VALID UNTIL 12/31/22. ONLY AT PARTICIPATING LOCATIONS.

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pipSquigz are fun little suckers for ages 6 months and up. Adored by baby and parents alike, they are perfect for the stroller, highchair, bathtub, and travel! Our speech therapists use them for target words in actions (pull, put on, give, get, pop) prepositions (on, off) others (colors, bumpy/smooth) feeding (play with purees, bring to mouth, chew/explore orally)

Bilibo is anything your child can imagine. A turtle shell. A sand scooper. A water bucket. A rescue helmet. A hero mask. A wobbly, spinning seat. A giant cereal bowl. An impenetrable home base for action figures. We use these in our clinics to help with core strength in aid of independent and safe feeding skills.

This extra-large muslin swaddling blanket is silky soft, made of 70% bamboo viscose and 30% cotton, becomes even softer with use, comes pre-washed, and can be used in so many different ways. This is our preferred swaddle for feeding!

This is a perfect baby shower gift! One side of the double-sided flip-top cap of each Munch Mini features soft, textured silicone for baby to suckle on, while the opposite side provides soft fabric to protect baby from fingernail scratches.

This 100% food-grade silicone, flexible, cube with textured edges that easily soothe sore gums is one of our favorite chew toys! The geometric design provides easy grip for baby’s hands. And hidden inside is a rattling cube covered with vivid, stimulating patterns and a bright, shiny mirror. Use this to enhance oral motor skills!

Pull the pole from the base to watch all the discs tumble to the ground; keep on spinning and stacking again and again; flip the base to choose either wobbly or sturdy; practice sorting discs by color, shape, and size. Great for action target words (go, spin, stuck) prepositions (on, up, and down) others (more, colors, big/small)

Spot It! Helps develop focus, visual perception skills, speech-language skills, and fine motor skills. Players of all ages will enjoy the engaging, tactile gameplay.

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