Occupational therapy helps your child have an independent, productive, and satisfying life. All SHBH Occupational Therapists (OTs) are licensed and certified professionals who help children reach their full potential at home, school, play, and in the community. OT works on helping your child with skills and tasks needed for daily living.
We collaborate with you as a parent, as well as with your child’s caregivers, teachers and physicians to develop a holistic, individualized H.E.A.R.T.S Plan for your child.
Occupational therapy involves fun exercises and play activities, including assistance with:
Physical therapy focuses on identifying and maximizing your child’s quality of life through developing their large motor skill coordination and increasing their range of motion.
With physical therapy from SHBH, children build strength and improve motor function, balance and coordination in fun, creative ways. In fact, most of the work we do is based in play, an activity we consider to be the most positive way to get children motivated and involved! Using toys and games as a part of therapy are important for your child’s therapy and allow us to create environments that will help your child thrive.
Your child will work with an experienced and licensed SHBH Physical Therapist on fun exercises and activities in order to:
It is important for your child to be able express his or her needs and wants. A child’s social engagement depends largely on the ability to communicate his or her thoughts and emotions.
Small Hands Big Hearts’ speech therapy seeks to improve your child’s ability to communicate by improving fluency and articulation, including work on:
Our SHBH speech therapists are experienced and fully accredited — not to mention FUN – helping your child to communicate as clearly as possible. We strive to see each child improve their freedom of expression.
Therapy is available for both English and Spanish-speaking clients.
What is teletherapy?
Teletherapy is providing therapy through a live video connection, over the internet. Therapists provide the same treatment as they would in person; it’s just done through a computer! If you’ve ever used Skype on your computer or FaceTime on your iPhone, you’ve used the same type of technology teletherapy uses. If you have not, our therapist will walk you through it.
What types of therapy can be provided using teletherapy?
Currently we are offering teletherapy for all our disciplines: Occupational, Physical, and Speech Therapies.
What is required for teletherapy?
There are some important requirements that are needed for teletherapy:
Do I qualify for teletherapy?
If you qualify for regular in-person therapy, you should automatically qualify for teletherapy. This is dependent on your specific insurance authorizing teletherapy; however, when the national emergency was declared in March, most insurance companies enabled authorizations for telehealth automatically. This might change once the national emergency is declared over, but for now, as long as you qualified for normal in-person therapy, you qualify for teletherapy.
Entering the world of therapy with your child might feel like a new and daunting endeavor. SHBH is here to partner with you, helping you navigate the process. There is security in knowing that your child is receiving benefits from an encouraging screened and accredited therapist.
After receiving a referral from your physician, one of our friendly staff members will contact you to schedule an initial in-home evaluation with your child. Your child’s personalized H.E.A.R.T.S. Plan (reflecting out motto of “Helping Every Angel Reach Therapeutic Success”) will be developed based upon your physician’s recommendations, the therapist’s observations, and most importantly, by speaking with you.
We gain approval of your child’s H.E.A.R.T.S. Plan from your physician and insurance company, typically in less than a week. Your child’s therapist and your family will then create a schedule to ensure consistent visits. We will also partner with you to establish the best therapeutic environment to help your child meet or exceed his or her goals. Each month, a customized schedule will be created for your child. We highly value your input and will endeavor to create a schedule that works well for your family.
Your child will begin receiving in-home Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and/or Speech Therapy. At each visit, a licensed, certified SHBH therapist will work with your child on the different skills in their H.E.A.R.T.S. Plan. Our therapists provide exceptional care, ensuring that your child is safe and comfortable while being challenged to develop. Your therapist will consistently note your child’s progress and challenges in order to modify his or her personalized H.E.A.R.T.S. Plan. A formal review and revision of the plan is performed every six months.
We encourage your full participation in helping your child reach his or her potential. We will provide your family with education to help your child to continue to reach developmental milestones and as much independence as possible. Your SHBH therapists will work with you and share ideas of how you can best help your child between visits.
With our broad acceptance of most major insurance plans and our experience in communicating with both physicians and insurance providers, we handle the red tape allowing your child to receive approval QUICKLY for his or her therapy.
We are constantly in the process of adding insurance carriers. We also try and receive authorization for providing services when we consider an out-of-network provider for your child. Our staff will follow up and work with the insurance company to seek to secure approval.
If you would like to know if we accept or if we would add your insurer, please email us your insurance company’s name and your contact at Intake@shbhtherapy.com. One of our friendly team members will contact you shortly.
