Community Therapy Services, P.C.
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Community Therapy Services offers a wide variety of workshops for health care professionals as well as families.

For the Professional

For Parents and Special Interest Groups

Community Therapy Services offers American Speech-Language-Hearing Association approved continuing education units on a variety of topics. These workshops, seminars, and presentations are available to our employees.

Speech and Language

• Mother - Infant Interaction Styles and Developmental Disorders
• Mother - Infant Communication
• The ADA: SLP Role and Responsibility / The Communication Bill of Rights
• Maximizing Communication Potential
• Activities Programs in the Skilled Pediatric Setting
• Cognitive - Communication Gap: Behavioral Manifestations
• The Reluctant Talker

Music Therapy

For Children with Special Needs

• The Use of Music Therapy with Children who have Autism
• Music Therapy and the Autistic Child
• Music and Movement for Neurologically Impaired Children
• Music Therapy for Developmentally Delayed Preschool Children
• Music Therapy in the Special Needs Classroom
• Music Therapy as a Group Experience (for Special Needs Children)

For All Children

• Incorporating Music into the Classroom Setting
• Music in Early Childhood Education
• Music and Babies

For Adults

• Music as a Group Experience (for an older population)
• Music Therapy for Developmentally Challenged Adults in Residential Settings

Physical Therapy

• Seating and Positioning: Physical Therapy Implications

Occupational Therapy

• Sensory Integration and the Developing Child

1. Parent - Child Communication: Birth to Kindergarten and Beyond

Parent - infant bonding, growth-fostering strategies, finding good child care, blending the parents' goals with the child's personality, acquisition of communication skills, "quality time" and "floor time."

Recommended for parents of children birth to five.

2. Enhancing Communication (for significant communication partners)

Forming successful communication partnerships, strategies for functional communication skills

Recommended for communication partners of persons with communication disorders

3. Teaching Your Child to Talk

How children learn speech and language from the moment of birth, developmental milestones, growth-fostering activities, and problems that should be investigated

Recommended for parents of children from birth to five; professionals serving families with young children

4. Music and Kids

A musical approach to learning can help children achieve developmental milestones. Learn about music's role in: creating neuropathways; promoting language, cognitive, social, and motor skills; and reducing stress.

5. Why Children Need Experiences with Nature

Learn about the role of nature in the healthy development of individuals and society, and how parents can create meaningful experiences with the natural world for their children.