Our goal it is important to improve the quality of life by offering the best available rehabilitation and cost effective physical fitness program available.
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Sensory Integration Therapy
Children with autism and other developmental disabilities often have sensory integration dysfunction. However, sensory integration dysfunction can also be associated with premature birth, brain injury, learning disorders, and other conditions.
Behavior & Social Skill Building
At Therapeutic Life Skills we understand that good social skills are critical to the healthy development of children in today's society. Children learn good social skills through everyday interactions with adults and their peers. The ability to communicate and show age appropriate behavior....
Development and Coordination
A child with delayed development may not show behaviors and abilities that are typical of the child’s age.
The sensory gym provides a safe place
The sensory gym provides a safe place to play, exercise, and have fun that are not available in other settings. A good adapted physical activity programs is designed to accommodate children with disabilities which allow the child to participate more successfully and meaningfully in daily life separate from the clinic.
Better adaptive physical activities, with supplementary aids and services, can accommodate all children with disabilities. The child’s development of cognitive, motor skill and physical fitness will support a lifelong healthy lifestyle. Fitness activities are designed to help children understand, improve, and maintain their physical well being. In the gym, information provided to the parent about a variety of motor skills is used to enhance the physical, mental, and behavioral development.
Parents are encouraged to develop awareness of individual differences and development of strategies to accommodate these differences. Each child will engage in different goals and objectives designed to boost confidence and self-esteem.
The process is not complicated. The therapist will prepare an individual program with the parent to place the child in age-appropriate gym activities. This includes therapy in the form of a plan to address each child’s disability which includes parent support, adaptive equipment to allow the child to succeed at the clinic and within the home environment.