Developmental Therapies
Cortica’s developmental therapists assess how children sense information from the surrounding environment, how they process that information, and how they plan and coordinate movements.
Developmental therapies (DT) are complementary to one another and often achieve greater success in combination. For example, occupational and music therapy may help lay the foundation your child needs to communicate and may be recommended in addition to speech therapy.
Speech Therapy At Cortica, speech-language therapists integrate your child’s unique sensory and motor profile into relationship-based activities to improve your child’s functional communication.
Occupational Therapy At Cortica, occupational therapists aim to improve everyday skills, which allows your child to become independent and participate in desired activities.
Goals of Speech Therapy
Goals of Occupational Therapy
Speech-language therapy uses daily activities and play-based techniques to improve:
Occupational therapy uses play-based techniques to support:
• Expressive language through gestures, speech, and/or alternative communication
• Regulation and arousal
• Speech sound production
• Creating, planning/organizing, and executing movement patterns for everyday activities
• Language and comprehension
• Independent dressing and grooming
• Speech fluency (stuttering)
• Eating and meal participation
• Social pragmatic communication
• Using the bathroom
• Organizing, planning, and problem-solving
• Fine motor skills like drawing, painting, writing or using scissors
• Feeding and swallowing