The children served by Foundation ThinkAgain are treated with a variety of
therapies through highly qualified providers chosen for each child’s
individual needs. Therapeutic treatment plans designed by these therapists,
utilize information from a variety of sources including the client’s social,
emotional, psycho-educational, and neuropsychological context. Therapists
contracted with Foundation ThinkAgain, work with the patients one-on-one
after school or on weekends, which supports and supplements their regular
education.
Cognitive Remediation is designed to improve
neurocognitive abilities such as attention, working memory,
cognitive flexibility, planning, and executive functioning which
leads to improved social and academic functioning.
Educational Therapy offers children with learning disabilities a wide
range of intensive, individualized tailor made interventions designed to
remediate individual learning problems. Further, educational therapy
stimulates the patient’s awareness of their strengths so they can use those
strengths to overcome or compensate for areas of weakness.
Vision therapy, also known as visual training, vision
training, or visual therapy, is a broad group of techniques aimed
at correcting and improving binocular, oculomotor, visual
processing, and perceptual disorders.
Clinic-Based
Speech and Language Therapy includes the treatment of speech and
communication disorders. The approach used depends on the disorder and may
include physical exercises to strengthen the muscles used in speech
(oral-motor work), aphasia therapy, or speech drills to improve clarity.
Clinic-Based Occupational therapy involves the analysis of activities in a child’s
life, and the affected sensory processes required for such activities.
Occupational therapy involves:
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Teaching new ways of approaching tasks
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Breaking down activities into achievable components e.g. sequencing a
complex task like cooking a complex meal
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Performance skills/sensory integration assessments and treatment.
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Adaptive equipment recommendations and usage training.
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Environmental adaptation including provision of equipment or designing
adaptations to remove obstacles or make them manageable
Physical Therapy: In
special circumstances following a brain tumor, some pediatric patients
require a significant amount of physical therapy with limited coverage by
medical insurance. For those requiring more clinic based PT, we work closely
with service providers in the child's community to get them what they need
in order to function successfully. “Mounting evidence shows that movement is
crucial to every other brain function, including memory, emotion, language
and learning. Our "higher" brain functions have evolved from movement and
still depend on it.” John Ratey, M.D., Harvard Medical School Professor and
Author of A User's Guide to the Brain.