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Therapies > Animal
Therapeutic Riding vs. Hippotherapy: What's the Difference?
...and therapeutic riding. Programs use them loosely. Websites...dollars spent on the wrong program. One Is Therapy, One Is...wrong program. One Is Therapy, One Is Riding Instruction....pathologist during a therapy session. The word comes...way they might use a therapy ball or a platform swing...difference: hippotherapy has therapy goals, and therapeutic...
Therapies > Animal
Therapy Dogs in Schools: How Canine Programs Support Students with Special Needs
...behind that flyer. A Therapy Dog Is a Guest, Not...Service Animal. A therapy dog belongs to a volunteer...Partners, Alliance of Therapy Dogs, or Therapy Dogs...Therapy Dogs, or Therapy Dogs International....evaluated. What a therapy dog does not have...its handler goes. A therapy dog goes where it...school can end the program on a Tuesday and nobody...
Education > Early Intervention
Natural Learning Environments in Early Intervention: Why Your Child's Therapy Happens at Home
...lunch. Nothing about that first hour matches what therapy is supposed to look like. There is no clinic room,...Part C of IDEA is the federal early intervention program for children from birth to age three. It requires...decision. Your service coordinator cannot move speech therapy to...
News > Advocacy
Oregon Is Weighing Cuts to Physical Therapy, Prosthetics, and Autism Care for Medicaid Members
If your child gets occupational therapy through the Oregon Health Plan, or your family...limb, a wheelchair seating evaluation, or an ABA program, those services now appear by name on a state document...made the deepest reductions to Medicaid since the program began. Oregon also projects roughly $2.5 billion...
Therapies > Animal
Finding a Certified Animal Therapy Program: What Credentials to Look For
You have five programs in a browser tab, and...certified animal-assisted therapy practitioner, which sounds...legitimate animal-assisted therapy session, two things have...says nothing about it. Programs that blur the two are...lose money. A registered therapy dog visiting a classroom...lovely one. It becomes therapy when a licensed clinician...
Therapies > Animal
How Much Does Animal Therapy Cost and Will Insurance Cover It?
A program coordinator quotes you...a session for equine therapy, once a week, and you're...what animal-assisted therapy costs by modality, and...treatment plan. Equine therapy (hippotherapy or therapeutic...because it bills as a therapy session rather than a...one. Canine-assisted therapy costs less, usually $50...
Therapies > Animal
Is My Child Ready for Animal Therapy? Pre-Assessment Questions for Parents
...real progress with a therapy dog, and now you're...fast. Animal-assisted therapy helps a lot of kids....pay for a six-week program beats figuring it...walk through with a program coordinator before...comfort with a working therapy dog who initiates...session. Ask the program directly what species...committing to a full program. A five-minute introduction...
Special Needs > Asperger Syndrome
Social Skills Groups for Adults with Asperger Syndrome
...evening. What a Social Skills Group Does. A social skills group is not group therapy for a personality flaw. It's structured practice, usually built around a...small clusters, then talks through what worked and what didn't. The better programs assume competence already exists. Adults with Asperger syndrome often bring...
Therapies > Speech
Virtual Speech Therapy: Does It Work as Well as In-Person Sessions?
...doesn't mean every virtual program is good. It means the delivery...Research Shows. Telehealth speech therapy has been studied longer than...some oral-motor or feeding therapy work. Speech and language goals...always. What a Quality Virtual Program Looks Like. The gap between...in-person. It's whether the program was built for remote delivery...
Lifestyle > Self-Care
Cost Barriers to Mental Health Care for People with Intellectual Disabilities
...practice didn't accept Medicaid. Sarah has an intellectual disability, works part-time at a grocery store, and has been on the waiting list for a waiver program for two years. She doesn't have six sessions worth of savings, and her anxiety symptoms are worsening. Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities...
News > Advocacy
Minnesota Just Disenrolled 61% of Its Medicaid Disability Providers. Other States Are Running the Same Audit. Here's What Families Need to Do Now.
...spanning 13 high-risk program types, the state revalidated...therapist, adult day program, or in-home caregiver..."high-risk" Medicaid program types across all 87...That includes ABA therapy providers, adult day...services, mental health programs, and Integrated Community...receiving full-time ABA therapy at Superior Steps,...full-time in ABA therapy, which was transformative...
Lifestyle > Relationships
Sibshops: Support Programs for Siblings of Children with Disabilities
...this. They're structured peer support programs where siblings of children with disabilities...experiences. The focus is validation, not therapy. Kids meet others who already know...at the Sibling Support Project, a program of the Arc of the United States. The...it safe to do so. Sibshops aren't therapy groups. There's no formal counseling...