A Total Approach is a center dedicated to creating impactful change in our clients’ & their families’ lives.
We help individuals with a wide range of learning differences across diverse populations. Our approach is family centered, while also considering the individual differences of each person.
Over the years we have developed several unique, specific assessment and intervention protocols that are not found elsewhere outside of our center. Besides our wonderfully loyal local clients, we regularly receive clients and families from different parts of the world as they cannot find similar services at their home location.
Over the years we have developed several unique, specific assessment and intervention protocols that are not found elsewhere outside of our center. Besides our wonderfully loyal local clients, we regularly receive clients and families from different parts of the world as they cannot find similar services at their home location.
COVID-19 Precautions
There Is No Higher Priority For Us Than The Health And Safety Of Our Patients, Staff And Their Families.
We have the following measures in place to ensure the health and safety of all:
- Each time before you drive to come to ATA consider the following questions:
- Have you or your child experienced any symptoms such as fever, shortness of breath, cough, or difficulty breathing?
- Has your child experienced rash, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and/or eye redness? (symptoms of COVID can manifest differently in children).
- Have you recently traveled to any hotspot areas such as New York, Northern New Jersey, Florida, or California?
- Have you or your child come in contact with anyone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past 2 weeks?
- Please enter at the main entrance as usual, but use the opposing door at the other side of the waiting room to exit the building.
- Everyone will be required to wear masks, children included.
- We ask that you have your child wash his / her hands prior to entering the waiting room.
- Each client’s temperature will be checked by Anne in our front office with a quick forehead screen before commencing therapy.
- Our staff’s temperature will also be checked daily.
- There will be no waiting for parents/caretakers in the waiting room: either go into the session (except for Tomatis) or please wait in the car.
- Only 1 client/family per therapist will be in one room.
- Once the client is in the room, masks may be removed when needed as many of our kids may have difficulty keeping the mask on for the full session.
- Hand sanitizers will be available in each room.
- Sessions will end 10 minutes early so the therapists could wipe down the equipment used for the next client.
- The therapist will escort your child out, after washing his / her hands.
- Please meet your therapist with your child at the exit door outside of the building, 10 minutes before the hour.
- Because there can be no exchange of funds, handling of credit cards or cash, we will ask you to sign permission with your credit card number for us to use for payments.
PLEASE do not hesitate to ask questions or let us know if there is anything we can do to provide further attention to protecting your child’s health at any time!
Specific assessments and Intervention programs include:
Speech Language Pathology
The speech-language therapy program at A Total Approach follows a Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based methodology (DIR/Floortime)
Dyspraxia Disorders
Dr. Jean Ayers, founder and researcher of Sensory Integration theory, described praxis as follows: The ability of the brain to conceive of, organize, and carry out a sequence of unfamiliar actions.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Literature is now suggesting that 1 in every 59 children born will receive a diagnosis of somewhere on the ASD spectrum and this is an alarming statistic.
Reading and Writing Disorders
Reading is an acquired skill in the brain. We are not hard-wired to read, it is a result of developmental integration, completely dependent on the way our central nervous system is wired together.
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
Our nervous system starts to develop in utero and matures over the first 5 to 7 years of our lives. There are specific stages of development that each one of us has to go through in order to be full functioning adults that can live the life we want for ourselves.
Out of State / Out of Country Clients
Over the past decade our clientele has increased to include intensive programming for clients travelling to us from across the world.
Attention Deficit and Executive Functioning Disorder (ADHD/EF)
So many clients come to our center diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and most of them have a corresponding developmental delay with regards to registering sensory information.
Attachment Disorders
From the beginning of our lives we all seek interpersonal sustenance starting with our first relationship with our mother, followed closely by our relationship with our father.
Brain Injury and Concussions
Brain Injury is a devastating diagnosis and the range of difficulties incurred can range from mild to severe.
Adult Sensory Processing Disorder
Adults can struggle with the same sensory difficulties as our pediatric population.
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