FOUNDATIONS FIRST
Helping children thrive at home, in the classroom, and in the community is our top priority.
At Foundations First, we start with the A, B, C’s.
ATTENTION
-
Respond and interact with a person or activity.
-
Hold attention with a person or activity.
-
Be able to extract understanding through vision, hearing, touch, smell, and movement.
-
Look someone in the eyes to connect and understand language.
BEHAVIOR
-
Physical and emotional behavior that is self-driven or in reaction to others or the environment.
-
Having control over one’s body to do things such as sitting in one spot, keeping your hands to yourself, turn taking, being quiet and listening.
-
The capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with peers.
-
A general recognition and avoidance of possible harmful situations or persons in your environment.
COORDINATION
-
The force that your muscles are able to exert in order to push, pull, lift, and stabilize and for a period of time that allows the completion of the activity.
-
Primitive reflexes are unconscious muscle movements that are present in infancy and early childhood for protection or skill development. These automatic movement patterns should integrate, or stop occurring, with the mastery of early gross motor skill.
-
Visual motor skills are executed any time you must use your vision and movement together, such as copying letters or catching a ball. Occulomotor skills are the coordination of the small muscles that move the eyeballs to complete tasks such as reading or bringing the eyes together to look at something close to you.
-
Fine motor skill are the small precise movements one makes with their hands and fingers to complete tasks such as holding a pencil, writing, or grabbing an object. Gross motor skills are the large movements one makes with their arms, legs, or torso such as running, climbing stairs or rotating your upper body.
Your child may benefit from an evaluation at Foundations First if they experience:
Difficulty sitting still
Avoiding tasks or activities
Prone to fall or get hurt
Poor safety awareness
Frequently in other people’s space
Refusal to complete a table activity
Excessive physical play
Short attention span
Picky eating
Behind in reading and/or writing
Poor sleep
Behind in developmental milestones
It’s easy to get help!
We follow these steps…
-
Get a free 20 minute consultation determine the best course of action for your child and family.
-
If it is recommended that an evaluation be done, we will schedule a 2 hour window of time to assess your child’s strengths and weaknesses and utilize evaluation techniques to determine the best course of treatment strategies to create foundational change.
-
Following an evaluation, treatment strategies will be discussed and a schedule and plan will be determined based on what is best for the child and family. This could include sessions at home, school, or in a clinic setting, privately or in group sessions that target certain skill areas.
*Please note at this time we do not bill insurance, however we do offer super bills for you to pursue reimbursement.