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Full body evaluations for children to identify, treat and prevent limitations related to movement, function and overall health including:
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Brain Gym
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Casting for Cascade DAFO
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Coordination and motor planning skills
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Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy
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Consultation and community education
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Coordination of services
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Daily living activities
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Fine motor and visual-motor function
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Gross motor functional development
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Handwriting support
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Health and wellness classes for children
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Irritable and high-risk baby management
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Mealtime and feeding abilities
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Modulation skills/self-regulation
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Myofascial & cranialsacral treatment
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Play and social skills
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Social skills development
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Trainings for schools, groups, and other professionals
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Yoga for children
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Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Groups
Constraint-Induced MovementTherapy
Date Night
Birthday Parties
Myofascial & CranialSacral Treatement
Architectural Home Consultation
Occupational Therapy services are provided by Giant Steps Children’s Therapy. Occupational therapy helps children develop all the skills they need for the many “jobs” they must participate in each day. These include skills in play, self-care (dressing, brushing teeth), motor, and interacting with others. Intervention is oriented to your child’s needs and may focus on sensory integration theory. Play, motivation and a child’s inner-drive is valued and appreciated at Giant Steps Children’s Therapy.
Giant Steps Children’s Therapy provides evaluation, intervention and education aimed to improve overall health and participation. Family-centered intervention helps children function better in natural environments and make family life easier. Parents often seek out an occupational therapist because their child may be demonstrating the following problems:
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Excessive and intense outbursts and tantrums with possible harm to self or others.
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Difficulty wearing a variety of clothing.
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Relying on rigid routines and rituals.
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Oversensitive to noise, sound, touch, and movement.
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Impulsive, unsafe and unpredictable.
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Difficulty paying attention and organizing themselves for school and home life.
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Clumsy and inefficient when moving through space. |
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Difficulties with handwriting and other fine motor tasks. |
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Difficulty making friends and playing alone or with friends. |
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Poor self-esteem and self-concept. |
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Physical Therapy services are provided by Relax Therapy. Physical therapy facilitates your child’s functional motor development. This includes basic motor skills such as sitting, crawling and creeping, walking and running to more sophisticated skills as body awareness, equal weight bearing, balance, smooth coordinated movement, cross-patterning and ball skills. These skills combine to create a diversity of movement for your child’s every day play skills: bike riding, team sports, community outings, community classes, playing catch.
Physical therapy focuses on your childs innate creative movement by using eclectic approaches to therapy which incorporate neuro-developmental treatment, sensory integration, full-brain activities on the balance board, myofascial and craniosacral release techniques and yoga to connect all aspects of the body for optimal health and function.
Relax Therapy provides full-body evaluations to identify, treat and prevent limitations related to movement, function and overall health. Our clients receive intervention that helps their child move with increased function and enjoyment. Parents often seek out a physical therapist because their child may be demonstrating the following:
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Appears to lean or look to only one side of their environment.
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Delays in developmentalmilestones for sitting, crawling, walking, jumping and running.
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"Clumsy" walking or running.
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Flat feet or weak ankles.
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Frequent falls while walking or running.
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Difficulty catching or throwing a ball.
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Difficulty kicking a ball.
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Overly cautious moving through their environment.
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Not to be "keeping up" with their peers during playtime.
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Enjoys more sedentary activities than their peers.
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Relax Therapy also offers the FitChamps program which strives to offer tweens and teens an opportunity to learn healthy lifetime fitness skills. The FitChamps program is designed to work one-on-one with your tween/teen, with autism or other global developmental delays, to learn how to work out on fitness equipment, lift weights, use their community fitness gym, and make a commitment to schedule their lifetime fitness goals. Back to Top>
We believe that groups offer children an exciting adjunct to individual therapy. We offer a variety of groups for different age groups. Our groups are facilitated by a licensed pediatric occupational or physical therapist unless otherwise noted. Group work helps your child prepare for classroom expectations, enhance communication skills, explore sensory experiences, develop motor skills, promote problem solving, foster social skills and facilitate community involvement. Current groups include:
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Yoga groups
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Teen fitness/ FitChamps
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Helper Hands (CIT training)
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Feeding groups
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Self-regulation/Alert Program
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Handwriting groups
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Social Skills group
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Community access groups
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Helper Hands Camp is an evidenced-based constraint induced therapy program offering motor therapy for children with limited motor function of one side of their body (hemiplegia). Helper Hands Camp will provide 21 days of intensive training of the arm with limited motor function while the non-affected arm is constrained in a long arm cast. Your child will be evaluated by an occupational and physical therapist prior to camp. We are dedicated to measuring outcomes and will reassess with follow-up visits. Helper Hands Camp offers one-on-one occupational therapy, one-on-one physical therapy and direct therapeutic group activities which include: art; cooking, music/movement; and community based activities. This camp is designed for 2-4 children per session and organized in age groups to include preschool, school-age, and teens. Back to Top>
All caregivers need a night out and time for themselves. We honor you by providing a monthly free babysitting night in our Seattle Therapy Network facility while you enjoy some “you time.” Check our blog for upcoming date night details. Remember, we are just minutes from a fun evening in Georgetown (www.georgetownneighborhood.com/out.html) and just a few miles from downtown Seattle. Back to Top>
Plan to have your child’s birthday party in our urban gym space. One of our therapists will help you facilitate a playful and imaginative party environment where your child and guests will feel safe and familiar. Please call us for availability and rates. Back to Top>
Myofascial and craniosacral release techniques by nature are gentle, subtle therapies which have a potent influence on your physical well being. They can enhance:
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Physical movement & function
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Cognitive function
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Relaxation
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These techniques can also be used to relieve signs and syptoms of:
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Torticollis/Plagiocephaly
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Gastrointestinal upset or constipation
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Headaches/migraines/earaches
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Acute/chronic physical impairments
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Design a therapeutic environment in your home for your child to get the sensory stimulation he needs with Archilab architects. They have experience creating stimulating, fun, and safe environments to meet your child’s home therapy needs. Back to Top>
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