RESOURCES

Benefits & Usage

• Develops breath control
• Develops verbal intelligibility
• Improves pronunciation
• Improves articulation
• Improves fluency
• Improves communication
• Improves speech
• Increases self-esteem

Benefits & Usage:

• Improves comfort
• Improves feeding
• Improves swallowing
• Improves speech
• Improves coordination
• Increases flexibility
• Increases range of movement
• Increases strength

Varieties:

• Gestures
• Facial expressions
• Signing
• Picture symbols
• Speech-generating devices (ie: computers, tables with speech-generating software or applications.)

Benefits: 

• Improves educational potential
• Increases vocalization
• Increases verbalization
• Increases articulation
• Increases comprehension
• Increases interpersonal interactions
• Increases creative use of language
• Increases attention span
• Increases self-esteem
• Improves independence
• Improves Quality of Life
• Decreases disruptive behavior
• Decreases aggressive behavior
• Decreases self-stimulation
• Decreases frustration

• Benefits & Usage:
• Improves function
• Increases range of motion
• Maintains range of motion
• Prevents deformities
• Decreases muscle tone
• Promotes healing

• Targets individual or groups of muscles
• Strengthens weak muscles
• Improves range of motion
• Promotes function
• Restores function

• Improves communication
• Improves speech
• Improves articulation
• Improves coordination of speech muscles

• Increases mobility
• Increases strength
• Increases balance
• Increases range of motion
• Improves weight shifting
• Improves transitional movements; squatting, sitting, standing
• Improves walking; forward, backward, sideways

• Improves the quality of movement of the affected limb
• Improves overall function of the affected limb
• Improves quality of life
• Facilities more spontaneous use of the affected limb

• Targets individual or groups of muscles
• Strengthens weak muscles
• Improves range of motion
• Promotes function
• Restores function

• Improves fitness
• Improves strength in leg muscles
• Improves strength in core muscles
• Improves balance
• Improves walking pattern
• Improves appropriate movement patterns
• Prevents compensations

• Provides adjustable weight-bearing control
• Increases body awareness
• Improves step sequence
• Improves step quality
• Improves muscle strengthening
• Improves balance

• Improves muscle strength 
• Improves coordination of the legs and arms
• Improves motor control
• Improves spatial awareness
• Improves attention
• Improves the ability to crawl and/or walk
• Improves transitional movements

• Increases postural control
• Inhibits undesirable movement and postures
• Increases controlled movement
• Increases proper postural alignment
• Decreases abnormal movement patterns
• Improves living skills
• Improves body awareness
• Improves confidence