What Do We Do?

At the Center of Development (COD) we can provide our clients with neurodevelopmental and sensory integration based treatment through vision therapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapies. This treatment approach is highly effective, as we look at the child as a whole, not breaking up into vision, fine motor, perceptual, or other parts of the child's functioning.

We treat all "labels" that children have been given such as Learning Disorders, Dyslexia, Developmentally Delayed, ADHD/ADD, reading delays, Sensory Processing Disorders, and all the other labels out there that essentially that a child is not functioning on a developmentally appropriate level and it is interfering with their academic, social, emotional, and health.

We use assessments and treatment approaches that focus on what the root problem (usually a developmental problem) is how that is affecting all aspects of their life. By treating the lower levels of the brain processing first (ex. sensory functions, developmental milestones, motor coordination, sensory processing, sequencing), then working up to higher cortical tasks (ex. reading, writing, math, complex problem solving, self esteem, sensory integration) we can give the child the building blocks and developmental skills needed to developing more normally and reach optimum higher cortical functioning for the rest of their life!

Some of the areas that we look at (this of course is a shortened list):

1. Developmental Milestones: which ones were missed, which ones done incorrectly, crossing of midline, rythym and coordination of opposite sides of the body such as creeping and crawling patterns, crossing midline, sequencing body movements, reflexive patterns and integration of reflexes, timing and sequencing, long and short term memory, hand, eye, leg, and ear dominance, motor coordination.

2. Sensory Processing: Vestibular (3 semicircular canals isolated and tested), Ocular movements separate from Vestibular and vica versa, Proprioceptive (joint and muscle reception), Tactile (light and deep touch), Auditory processing, Visual Processing, Reflexes and Integration of those reflexes.

3. Perceptual skills: Visual perceptual skills with standardized testing pre and post therapy to show results, Long and Short term memory, Hemisphere Dominance, Writing and Reading.

4. Medical History: developmental lags, illnesses, ear infections or fluid on the ears (only detected by tympanogram), attachment issues, sensory issues, metal toxicity, reactions to vaccines, and other important factors in developmental history that can cause missed or delayed neurodevelopment.