Why Choose Therapy For Your Child?   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Time Time 2 Shine provides intensive Occupational and Speech Therapy services. Our services are provided by Occupational Therapist, Julie Klusmann, OTR/L, and Speech Language Pathologist, Paul Graumann, MS,CCC-SLP.  We have a combined 34 years of experience.

Occupational Therapy                                                                                                            
     From the American Occupational Therapy Association.                                                            
     Check out their website for more about the information found here.

Occupational therapy services focus on enhancing participation in and performance of activities of daily living (e.g., feeding, dressing), instrumental activities of daily living (e.g., community mobility, safety procedures), education, work, leisure, play, and social participation. Occupational therapy services are defined according to the individual’s needs and desired goals and priorities for participation. The occupational therapy intervention process is based on the results of evaluation and is individualized to foster occupational engagement
and social participation through techniques and procedures directed at the client, activity, and environment. Occupational therapy uses a variety of intervention approaches to stimulate active engagement in activity.

Occupational therapists help with:

• providing strategies to facilitate the full participation of all children in daily routines
• reducing environmental barriers that limit a child’s participation in learning activities
• planing developmentally appropriate instructional activities
• planing and preparing preschoolers or individual for the transition to kindergarten or other classroom environment.

Speech Therapy
     From Healing Thresholds, Speech and Language Therapy.
     Check out their website for more about the information found here.

The goal of speech therapy is to improve all aspects of communication. This includes: comprehension, expression, sound production, and social use of language. Speech therapy may include sign language and the use of picture symbols. At its best, a specific speech therapy program is tailored to the specific weaknesses and the environment of the individual child.

The National Research Council describes four aspects of beneficial speech therapy.

1. Speech therapy should begin early in a child's life and be frequent.
2. Therapy should be rooted in practical experience in the child's life.
3. Therapy should encourage spontaneous communication.
4. Any communication skills learned during speech therapy should be generalizable to multiple situations.

Thus, any speech therapy program should include practice in many different places with many different people. In order for speech therapy to be most successful, caregivers should practice speech exercises during normal daily routines in the home, school, and community. Speech therapists can give specific examples of how best to incorporate speech therapy throughout a child's day.

 Social  and play skills are also extremely important components of communication.  Speech therapy is intended to improve these skills, and teach the ability to use communication skills appropriately.

Please contact us at (605) 351-7976.  We would be happy to discuss our services with you.

pgraumann@sfearlyintervention.org or jklusmann@sfearlyintervention.org   
(605) 351-7976                                      (605) 359-8723