What is Behavior Intervention?

Behavior Intervention is the application of the principles from behavior modification and applied behavior analysis to a student’s target behaviors in order to shape and reinforce replacement behaviors. The goal of Behavior Intervention is to help the student access his school curriculum. (click for more info)

What is Floor Time?
Floor Time is the application of play-based therapeutic techniques to promote a child’s progress and growth in terms of his functional emotional developmental milestones.

It is a play intervention that is fun, where the parents and professionals have the role of moving the child through the developmental milestones, specific to each child’s needs, in activities that the child chooses. This process enables the child to learn and grow naturally, in a comfortable, happy, and playful environment. The term FLOOR TIME is also used when referring the DIR model of treatment developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Serena Wieder for children in the autism spectrum and with disorders of relating and communicating.

Intercare Therapy provides a complete assessment of the functional emotional developmental level of the child. In our therapy, we include the parents to get them to understand its DIR model and implement its principles. (click for more info)

What is Social Skills?
Children with special needs may require assistance developing communication skills so as to better relate and interact with others at school, at home, and at play.

Intercare Therapy has created a Social Skills Group to address these needs. Our social skills groups target young children to young adults with a variety of diagnoses. We provide complete Social Skills assessments and place children in groups matching them by age developmental level and sensory preference. (click for more info)

What is Speech Therapy?
Intercare Therapy has fully licensed Speech-Language Pathologists that provide treatment for problems related to speech sound production, receptive language difficulties, and expressive language deficits.

The goal of speech therapy is to heighten communication skills for children to learn, socialize, and play more effectively with peers and family.

Children demonstrating delayed speech/language development, speech/sound deficits, neurological disorders, voice disorders, or hearing impairments will benefit from an individual therapy program.

Therapy may include: following, directions, responding/asking questions and Oral Motor Exercises, memory and attention activities, and core vocabulary development that is age appropriate for the child.
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What is Occupational Therapy?
The focus of occupational therapy is to facilitate development of the child's "occupational" activities. These include play, self-care, educational, and pre-vocational tasks.

The developmental approach to therapy incorporating Sensory Integrative procedures is utilized by our therapists to facilitate gross motor coordination, fine motor coordination, fine motor manipulation, and visual perception. Outcomes are improvements in areas like feeding, dressing and school based tasks like writing.

In addition to assessment and treatment of children, Intercare Therapy occupational therapists are also available for consultation and staff training. (click for more info)