Occupational Therapy – OT

A child's main occupation is to play, grow and learn. Our goal at the Cozy Nest is to improve a child's quality of life and functional performance by evaluating developmental skills and implementing individualized treatment plans. Therapy sessions are conducted with compassion and fun to increase child involvement and positive outcomes

Our occupational therapists specialize in the evaluation and treatment of a child's overall health and well-being including physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors. Therapists collaborate with the child's team to achieve sustainable outcomes across environments. This team may include parents and/or caregivers, other therapy providers, teachers, medical providers, and community support services. One-on-one therapy, social groups, hippotherapy, and/or aquatic therapy are utilized as appropriate.

• Feeding, eating, and swallowing (aversion, "picky eaters", failure to thrive, g-tube weaning, reflux, constipation, oral motor skills, and more)
• Breast and bottle feeding support
• Fine motor skill development (handwriting, strength and precision)
• Gross motor skill acquisition (rolling, crawling, standing, sitting, transferring)
• Daily living skills (oral-facial hygiene, dressing, toileting, bathing, social and community involvement skills)
• Behavior and emotional regulation
• Attention and focus
• Sensory Integration
• Visual perception
• Upper extremity rehabilitation and splinting
• Adaptive techniques and equipment
• Range of motion and strengthening
• Wheelchairs, seating and positioning
• Safety
• Assistive technology
• Home and environmental modifications

Physical Therapy – PT

Our team can help your child develop strength, balance, coordination, and flexibility in order to allow them to participate at their highest level in various environments. Our safe, welcoming, therapeutic environment helps children who are facing neurological, orthopedic, or developmental delay conditions, with clinicians providing a wide range of experience and knowledge treating many different diagnoses. Physical therapy can help to address and treat:

• Developmental delay at all stages, including facilitating rolling, crawling, sitting, standing, walking, and higher level motor skills
• Strength
• Balance and safety training
• Gait training
• Coordination and "clumsiness"
• Range of motion and positioning
• Orthopedic issues, including post-injury rehabilitation
• Sport specific training and injury prevention
• Pelvic floor rehabilitation for urinary incontinence and constipation
• Respiratory function
• Neurological injury rehabilitation
• Ankle/foot orthoses and inserts
• Adaptive equipment fitting and recommendations, including walkers and wheelchairs

Speech Therapy – ST

If your child has a debilitating mental or physical impairment, he or she may have difficulty understanding others or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings. The compassionate and skilled speech therapists at The Cozy Nest can help your child reach critical language developmental milestones successfully by:

• Encouraging your child to make vowel-like and consonant-vowel sounds
• Maintaining eye contact, responding with speech, and imitating vocalizations using different patterns and emphasis
• Identifying colors, counting items, playing games, and incorporating communication into everyday activities

Nutrition

As nature would have it, breastfeeding is the ideal way to meet a baby's nutritional needs. However, for new as well as experienced mothers, breastfeeding can sometimes come with challenges. For over two decades, The Cozy Nest has been helping parents by offering professional consultation and real life advice in a safe and welcoming environment. No question is off limits -- we're here for you!

Nutrition Services at The Cozy Nest family includes a Registered Dietitian, a Certified Lactation Counselor, as well as those trained in postpartum mood disorders. Best of all, most of us are moms ourselves and understand the unique struggles that can occur in infancy and childhood. We are trained to assist with the various challenges of breastfeeding by building the skills of both mother and baby. When breastfeeding is not an option, a dietitian will recommend appropriate alternatives to ensure that baby is meeting his or her nutritional needs for optimal growth and development.

The Cozy Nest works with moms, dads, and other caregivers and counsels young children for continued growth and independence. Our purpose is to work with our clients to find the best solution for all involved.

• Clinic visits, phone visits, and occasional home visits are available
• Postpartum support: assessment and guidance
• Lactation counseling: correct latch and positioning to address nipple soreness, engorgement, and milk supply issues
• Nutrition assessments and doctor partnering, including tracking your baby or child's weight and progress
• Mother-to-mother support groups: help with feeding, behavior, sleeping issues
• Help with transitioning: back to work/school, bottle feeding, weaning, introduction to solids
• Feeding and eating issues: picky eating, failure to thrive, guidance on appropriate portion sizes and recipes
• Tube feeding: assistance with personalized, blenderized diets or commercial formula use