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Kioko Center is dedicated to offering various therapies to ensure your child could achieve the highest level of functionality and well-being. We treat various disabilities such as Sensory Integration, Articulation & Phonology, Social Language, Apraxia of Speech, and more. Visit and get complete information.
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THE KIOKO CENTER Our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them. THE KIOKO CENTER’S MISSION AND VISION Always treat its team members with respect and dignity, while providing the resources needed for them to be successful personally and professionally. This enables us to deliver Occupational Therapy and speech therapy to the children we work within a safe and nurturing environment. The Kioko Center is dedicated to providing caregivers with resources and training relevant to their child’s diagnosis so that the children we serve achieve their highest level of functionality and well-being. About Us The Kioko Center has been providing expert occupational and speech therapy services to children and young adults, ages birth to 21 years, since 2006. During that time, we have developed the highest quality standards for our therapies and services. Our staff are highly trained and prepared to integrate the latest therapy techniques into your child’s sessions. CLINICAL SERVICES At the Kioko Center, our passion is helping children At the Kioko Center, our passion is helping children with special with special needs and the families and caregivers needs and the families and caregivers that support them. that support them. We offer Speech Therapy and occupational Therapy in our Kioko’s clinic is fully operational year-round! Continual therapy clinic and online. We provide our patients with the during the summer encourages amazing progress and helps avoid latest therapeutic interventions to encourage regression when school is out-of-session. Fun fact: If you child has amazing progress in a fun and family-oriented an IEP, most insurances will pay for therapy during the summer! atmosphere. Our clinical work gives the children and young adults we work with the tools they need to reach their full potential. SENSORY PROCESSING AND INTEGRATION Sensory processing or sensory integration refers to how our body receives, understands, and uses information from the senses. One component of this process is sensory integration, which includes interpretation, coordination, and organization of sensation. Efficient sensory integration enables us to plan appropriate action and behavior and learn new skills. Sensory information comes from all senses and may originate from one’s body (balance Sensory sense, joint and muscle sense, touch sense) or the Modulation environment (sight, sound, temperature, and texture). The two sensory integration components Refers to the nature and intensity of our reactions to are sensory modulation and sensory discrimination. sensation. This includes whether a sensation arouses These components are interrelated and important or calms, irritates or soothes, distracts or help focus for the acquisition of motor and perceptual skills. attention, feels threatening or comforts. Effective sensory modulation enables us to make an appropriate response. Problems in sensory modulation may affect behavior, emotions, motor responses and other skills. SELF REGULATION Self-regulation is our bodies ability to attain, maintain, and change arousal appropriately for a task or situation. (Williams & Shellenberger, 1994, p 1-5) It is our ability to manage your own energy states, emotions, behaviors, and attention, in ways that are socially acceptable and help achieve positive goals such as maintaining good relationships learning and maintaining wellbeing.” Kioko Center is the best clinic to get Occupational Therapy S ervices for Self-Regulation, whether you are looking for your child or a young adult. Call us for more detail. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOR HANDWRITING Handwriting refers to the • Memory: Remembering mechanical parts of the and writing dictated letters actual act of forming letters, • Orientation: Orienting or numbers, strokes, lines, or facing letters in the correct simple/complex figures to direction. demonstrate graphomotor • Size: A sizing error occurs skills. when a letter or number is formed larger than the margin of error, which is 1 grade level below the current. CONTACT US 820 Turnpike St #104, North Andover, Massachusetts 01845, United States [email protected] 978-681-6605
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