Due to COVID-19, telehealth (the provision of healthcare remotely via electronic information and telecommunication technologies), has seemingly overnight changed how therapists around the world provide services. As an occupational therapist who is used to working hands-on with her kiddos daily (maybe to correct pencil grip or to provide deep pressure
Amazing Kidz Therapy has continued to closely monitor this unusual situation that we are all facing with COVID19. We have analyzed the advice of the U.S. Dept of State, local authorities and the CDC to assist us in determining what the best next steps are for us to help maintain
As a therapist, I feel like I fell thru the looking glass in March. I entered a whole new world in which some things seemed bigger, others smaller, and a variety of colors that I had not seen before. Nothing seemed to work the way I was used to, my
There is a bit of pop culture injection in to this blog, you have been warned. : ) Just as David Bowie sang in 1971… Cha Cha Cha Changes…. and we are experiencing just that, on many fronts these days. One of the many areas is healthcare’s overnight transition to
As of today Florida Blue (Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida) issued an update to providers that Amazing Kidz Therapy received, it states that Telehealth for PT, OT, and ST will be covered for services with an effective date of March 15th, 2020. We are continuing to evaluate the full billing
In response to the extended school closures, AKT has expanded its virtual group offerings! Handwriting, Reading, and Social Skills groups will begin next week and last for 4 weeks. Contact our office to register!
Amazing Kidz Therapy, like most small businesses right now, is facing our time of operational uncertainty during this global pandemic. We have proudly served our communities as a Pediatric Therapy Clinic for over 3 years and in that time we have faced difficult choices that have had to be made,
According to the RAND Reading Study group, reading comprehension can be defined as “the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language.” As children and adults, we read more often than we realize. Whether it is a classroom assignment, those dreaded standardized assessments, the
Social Communication Receptive and expressive language skills are very important aspects of communication. These skills are necessary for understanding what others are trying to tell us, as well as clearly expressing our own thoughts, wants, and needs. However, there is another vital component of language that is just as important
By Allieson C. Bruce-Woolcock, COTA/L When children start Occupational Therapy for difficulty with handwriting and other fine motor tasks, such as buttoning and lacing, we brief the parents about the core activity we did during the session. The typical response we receive is “so are you or when are you
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