Helping your child to thrive at home and in school.
A strengths-based approach to help children facing challenges that affect their ability to function at home and/or in the classroom. Common areas of treatment focus include:
Infants with oral motor concerns that impact feeding (e.g. tongue ties, poor latch)
Fine motor coordination
Sensory integration difficulties
Developmental delays
Motor planning and coordination issues
Handwriting issues
Visual-perceptual issues
Activities of daily living (ADLs)
Emotional regulation, anxiety
Behavioral concerns
Unique setting and treatment approaches
Child and family centered environment/sessions
Interventions directly related to meaningful child and family goals
Quiet environment in a private practice setting
Education on practical strategies parents can use at home with their child
Specialized Interventions/Certifications:
Interventions for infants with Oral Motor Concerns
Infant-specific, lactation-focused interventions to help breast and bottle fed babies and their parents address oral motor concerns such as weak or restricted labial or lingual frenulum (tongue or lip ties), difficulty with achieving or maintaining latch or with efficient feeding, torticollis, extra-oral weakness, poor suck-swallow-breath coordination.
Original Strength Reset™
Original Strength™ is a movement system based on the human developmental sequence and design of the human body. It focuses on specific movement patterns that are used to reset and modulate a child's neuromuscular system- allowing them to enjoy improved physical movement, coordination, strength, physiological function, and improve sensory integration.
Astronaut Training Protocol
A precise, powerful, therapeutic protocol that is designed to develop optimal vestibular function, an essential foundation for all sensory
processing and movement control. The protocol integrates targeted auditory stimulation, rotary and linear movements, and eye exercises. It can help children whose daily activities are affected by visual perceptual issues, hyper or hypo activity, attention/level of arousal, and emotional instability. Astronaut Training also provides overall support for movement tolerance, sound and visual localization, oral motor control, and cognitive sensory processing.
Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is an evidenced-based acoustic treatment based on Polyvagal Theory, that can help children of all ages better regulate their central nervous system in order to reduce issues such as: anxiety, depression, inattention and lack of ability to focus, difficulty with behavioral regulation and resilience, poor physical coordination and balance, trouble with reading and auditory processing, difficulty sleeping, speech and language impairments, trauma, PTSD, and stressors that impact social engagement.
Better Movement Therapy offers the Safe and Sound Protocol to clients both onsite (in-clinic) and in online/ telehealth format (Ohio and West Virginia residents).