About Santé Treatments

Santé provides different therapies for children with complex medical or special needs. These therapies include speech, occupational, physical  and medical nutrition therapy. 

Speech and language therapy strives to improve the child’s ability to communicate wants and needs, address swallowing difficulties, improve fluency of speech, and improve memory or retention skills.  These treatments may address one or more of the following (list is not exhaustive):

  • Articulation and Phonological Processes
    • Difficult or incorrect production of speech sounds
  • Voice disorders
    • Pitch or loudness
  • Fluency disorders
    • Rate or flow of speech (hesitations or repetitions interrupt flow or stuttering)
  • Feeding and Swallowing
    • Difficulty moving food from mouth to stomach
  • Language Form
    • Grammar for word, phrase, and sentence constructions
  • Language Content
    • Vocabulary
  • Language Use
    • Social Language used to ask and answer questions, solve problems, retell an experience, give a recipe with sequences

Occupational therapy focuses on helping the child achieve independence.  Our Occupational Therapist (OT) works with the child on self-care, everyday tasks at home or school.  Occupational therapy helps improve, develop and restore fine motor functions.  Treatments may include exercises or activities that focus on one or more of the following (list is not inclusive):

  • Fine Motor Skills
    • Ability to perform functional tasks like, tying shoes and zipping and unzipping
  • Sensory Integration
    • Ability to process various sensory stimuli in order to sit and attend or learn
  • Eye-hand Coordination
    • Ability to visually process information to guide hand movement
  • Visual Perceptual Skills
    • Ability to follow along the board when the teacher is reading
  • Visual Motor Integration
    • Ability to imitate shapes and letters
  • Motor Planning
    • Ability to learn new motor sequences for brushing hair, teeth or other activities of daily living

Physical therapy concentrates on increasing the child’s mobility, range of motion, and functional motor skills, improve posture and conditioning, and prevent or slow orthopedic problems.  If your child is receiving physical therapy, his or her treatment may include activities that address one of the following:  

  • Upper and lower extremity strength, tone, coordination
  • Overall mobility, agility and balance
  • Bone and joint injuries
  • Pain Management
  • Muscle disorders
  • Gait Training (how to walk)
  • Working with assistive devices (i.e. crutches, walkers, wheel chairs)

Medical Nutrition Therapy focuses on improving the health and well-being of children through the use of nutritional interventions. Children with special health care needs are vulnerable to nutrition-related problems that jeopardize their
nutritional status and pose barriers to their development.

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Every child is special. Sometimes children need help learning to speak, walk or just play, regardless of the need, Santé is here to help your child succeed!