Services Overview
Genius Therapy is committed to working in partnership with therapists, families, caregivers, school districts and community members to develop the most effective treatment program for each individual child. Our therapists receive on-going training and clinical supervision to ensure the highest quality of services. Our goal is to maintain a standard of excellence in treatment by providing trained professionals in the field, while keeping the needs of the child and family as our primary concern.
ABA/Special instruction
At Genius Therapy, we develop programs designed specifically for each child utilizing the principles of special instruction. Our comprehensive home and community programs incorporate the components of special instruction that have been proven to be effective in the acquisition of skills across developmental domains. Learning occurs when demands are carefully structured, tasks are analyzed and broken down and positive reinforcement is used to elicit the desired behavior.
The early intervention special instructors will work to support and understand the social, emotional and cognitive development of the children, offer multi-sensory and interactive experiences, and work closely with parents and caregivers, so that these experiences can extend throughout a child’s daily routine. The goal is to increase a young child’s learning opportunities to positively impact his growth.
Occupational therapy
An occupational therapist addresses fine motor development, visual motor integration, visual perceptual skills and sensory integration to maximize a child’s ability to function in their everyday life.
- Fine Motor Development requires the development of strength, postural control and bilateral integration abilities. Once these skills are developed, finer movements such as grasping, manipulating objects and self-help skills can be addressed.
- Visual Motor/Visual Perceptual skills involve spatial awareness and coordination of eye hand movements necessary for prewriting, cutting, and constructional tasks.
- Sensory Integration is the ability of the child to register and integrate information from the environment via their senses. Integration of sensory information is necessary for attention, body awareness, motor planning and arousal. Treatment includes a variety of sensorimotor activities with proprioceptive, tactile and vestibular components.
Genius Therapy will ensure that all occupational therapists work to restore or improve physical abilities, promote behavioral changes, adapt surroundings, and teach new skills; the goal is to have the individual achieve her or his best physical and/or mental functioning in daily life tasks.
Speech and language therapy
Speech and language therapy is individualized to the child's level of need. The speech-language therapist focuses on promoting language development and helping the child to effectively communicate his/her needs. Therapy may address articulation, dysfluency, feeding concerns and oral motor concerns. It may also be designed to improve expressive language skills such as increasing vocabulary, combining words together to form phrases, sentences and questions and developing the social use of language. Therapy may also focus on developing a child's understanding of language (receptive language skills), such as following various types of directions and responding appropriately to questions. Improving listening and attending skills may also be targeted.
Genius Therapy offers many specialized services and programs in treating children with various concerns in their speech and/or language development and will ensure that all speech-language pathologists effect the above services and design a program of activities to improve the targeted areas of speech, language, or voice disability or delay.