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Occupational Therapy
Dr. Cyzner and her colleagues (click
here for bios) provide Occupational Therapy evaluations
and intervention for infants, toddlers, children,
adolescents and their families. We work closely with
each family to customize programming to meet both
your child’s and your family’s needs. Services include,
but are not limited to:
- Occupational Therapy screenings and evaluations
- treatment programs for children with sensory processing
disorders
- Therapeutic Listening™ and Interactive Metronome®
- parent coaching to reinforce, at home, the skills
gained in therapy
- consultation with parents, teachers and other
professionals who work with the family
- referrals to other professionals, as needed
- consultation and seminars for professional networking
groups, physicians, parent support groups, schools
and other people dedicated to working with children
and their families
Speech-Language Therapy
Individual Speech-Language evaluations and therapy
are available. Please click
here for the bio of our Speech-Language pathologist.
Services include, but are not limited to, working
with the following populations and/or providing specific
interventions:
- Autism spectrum disorders – specializing with
the moderate-severe population and the promotion
of verbal communication
- Social Skills Education – including the implementation
of inclusive group therapy to promote language development,
articulation and social skills
- Childhood apraxia of speech
- Intellectual disabilities
- Articulation disorders
- Expressive language disorders
- Receptive language impairments
- Learning disabilities
- Cleft palate/resonance disorders
Note: Occupational Therapy consultation and Speech-Language
consultation are available for our weekday program
students only and are included with tuition.
Music Therapy
Music Therapy is considered a health profession similar
to Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Therapy.
Music is used as a modality to help address physical,
psychological, cognitive, behavioral or social needs.
A music therapist provides an experience for the child
that is developmentally appropriate and can really
help to support relationship-based intervention. Music
Therapy is often a unique and enjoyable way to help
facilitate social-communication and/or to support
sensory-based needs. Hourly and half-hour sessions
are offered at the Institute.
Camp Kidz Connect
In the summer of 2005, Cyzner Institute launched Camp
Kidz Connect as a 4-day program offered for our children
and families. Due to the success of the pilot that
1st year and the positive feedback received, the summer
program was extended to 6 weeks and continues to this
day. Camp Kidz Connect is a natural extension of Cyzner
Institute – the main goal of the camp is simply to
have fun, yet embedded within this typical child’s
summer camp experience is a multi-layered approach
to learning. Camp Kidz Connect is all about helping
children make meaningful, emotional connections as
they participate in a variety of activities related
to developing and enhancing social interaction and
communication skills, fine and gross motor skills,
and sensory awareness and sensory processing skills.
While playing and engaging with others 1:1 and in
small group settings, using a relationship-based approach,
the counselors and staff will help children participate
at whatever level they are able to—first connecting
with them and eagerly awaiting for the children to
take the next step to connect right back.
Please contact us for more details about our summer
programs. We accept both children from within and
outside the Institute. Space is limited as we make
every effort to pair children to the best of our ability
with teenaged and young adult ‘buddies’ who volunteer
their services in the summer and serve as wonderful
role models and companions for our campers. Other
services such as 1:1 Educational Therapy, ABA, Tutoring,
OT, Speech-Language Therapy, and Music Therapy area
also available during the summer.
The Cyzner Institute Educational Camp Program
Research has shown that all students lose skills over
the summer break and every school year must begin
with weeks of review. When you take into account the
population of our students who often struggle with
memory, retrieval and the organization of information,
the lack of practice and use of newly learned skills
have an even greater impact!
To minimize this impact and better support and encourage
continued progress, Cyzner Institute introduced a
new summer program in 2010 which incorporates reading,
math, and written expression classroom learning with
fun, summer camp activities including music and arts
and crafts. The camp is run by one of our Day School
program teachers who has years of teaching experience
and is also a Reading Specialist and Orton-Gillingham
trained.
The children engage in instruction in a classroom
setting with both group and 1:1 teaching based on
their individual academic levels and learning styles.
They also spend time using our fabulous new web-based
computer program with a dual focus on continued assessment
and instruction that is web-based, also allowing us
to individualize instruction in reading and math.
For those students attending the Cyzner Institute
Day School weekday program during the school year,
this program can become part of their overall therapeutic
milieu.
Contact us for details!
"Shadowing" Services
A shadow can help guide your child in a school and/or
extracurricular environment, carrying over aspects
of his/her program from the institute that lend themselves
to working on skills in the natural context. A shadow’s
primary role is to help the child engage more in the
activities with the other children in the classroom.
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