Neurodivergence and Toileting Parent Q&A: April 3, 5:00-6:00pm
RSVP Here! It’s a no cost event, but spots are limited:
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Parents of neurodivergent kids. Join us for an informative, no cost parent Q&A session. With insight and guidance from a panel of healthcare providers and child development experts, we'll discuss and brainstorm toileting needs and challenges.
Topics will include interception, training styles, bedwetting, constipation, and how the nervous system is highly involved.
April 3, 2024 from 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Flourish Integrated Therapy, LLC
30 Northwoods Blvd, Suite 100
Columbus, Ohio 43235
Space is limited.
Questions? Email jacqueline@flourishohio.com
2024 Flourish Updates and Requirements: Action Required!
Hello Flourish Families!
The holidays are upon us! During this hectic time, we hope that you all get a chance to slow down and spend time with your friends and family.
As we get ready to celebrate the new year, please take care of these annual tasks!
Verify your 2024 Insurance.
Please let us know if you will continue to use insurance to fund services at Flourish Integrated Therapy in 2024.
If you are continuing to use insurance, please email an electronic copy of your insurance information (front and back copy of card) to office@flourishohio.com. You can also have the Front Desk take a copy of your physical insurance card when you are here if that is easier.
Please make sure to include the name of the Flourish client/s (include all siblings as applicable), the name of the policy holder, and the policy holder’s date of birth.
2024 Insurance Card information must be updated in our system prior to 1/1/2024 (even if nothing has changed) Please do not wait to bring the card as many insurance plans require preauthorization and may result in denied claims. These denied claims will be the responsibility of the client.
If you are using a different form of funding, please let us know the name of the Flourish client and the funding you will be using in 2024. (examples: private pay/ prompt payment discounts)
Verify your Active Credit Card.
We require a credit or debit card on file that is not an HSA card. You are welcome to use your HSA card, but will need to provide that in the office each time you want to make a payment using that card.
The practice may utilize your given payment methods on file for any balances, including late cancellation and no-show fees, without additional authorization.
Please note that failure to provide a current insurance card and active credit card on file may result in dismissal from services
Thank you for your understanding of our business practices.
Happy Holidays!
Warmly,
Flourish Integrated Therapy, LLC
Hello Summer 2023!
Summer Group Programs are Open for Enrollment! Call us today at 614-545-8300.
Spots are limited! Join us for some fun!
Feeding Groups (Pea Pods and Peas of Mind) start 1/17/22!
Using the concepts of Sequential-Oral-Sensory (SOS) Approach, your child will “play with a purpose” to target improvement of oral motor and sensory skills. Designed for both picky eaters and problem feeders, this group will also give parents the skills to decrease stress around mealtimes and help their children to be successful in eating situations.
Pea Pods - Ages 3-4
Group is 12 weeks in duration and will run Monday evenings from 5:00-6:00 PM.
Peas of Mind - Ages 5-7
Group is 12 weeks in duration and will run Monday evenings from 6:00-7:00 PM.
January 17 - April 4, 2022
Winter Social Groups Start 1/10/2022!
Flourish’s Social Language Groups start 1/10/22. We are excited to have new and returning faces for our 8-week series! Please watch for emails from your therapists with specifics for your child’s group! Masks are strongly recommended if you child is able to wear one
We can’t wait to have you with us! Let’s have some fun this Winter!
We are so excited to have new and returning faces for our Winter Groups. Groups kick off Monday 1/10/22 for an 8-week series. Look for emails from your instructors for specific details pertaining to your child’s group. See you soon!
Masks strongly recommended. All instructors will be masked.
“Every member of the Flourish Team was warm, welcoming, understanding, professional, competent, encouraging, and organized. Thank you to everyone for making this difficult time for us more manageable.”
Flourish Holiday Gift Suggestions 2021
Toy buying for kids can be overwhelming. There are so many toys on the market, it’s hard to know not only what they’ll like, but also what naturally helps them grow, learn and develop. We’ve asked our team of Occupational Therapists and Speech Language Pathologists for their tried-and-true favorite toys, and we’ve compiled the top the top picks for you. Not only do our clinicians love these toys for how they can use them in therapy, but also because our clients absolutely have a blast with them! So, let’s not wait any longer. Here are our top toy picks…
Plush Toys
Stuffed animals are a great gift for children one and older. They’re cuddly, comforting, and you can find almost everything imaginable as a plush – so you’re guaranteed they’ll love it. Plush toys are perfect for helping develop emotional regulation, and providing sensory exposure. They are also great for building receptive language and play skills by acting out caretaking routines such as feeding, dressing, hugging, and putting the stuffed animal to sleep. We also love plush toys for helping develop environmental sounds (think animal noising, eating or sleeping sounds, etc.), labeling and identifying body parts, and building a vocabulary by talking about what they plush toys are doing.
Bath Toys
Bath toys are a must have! They were a top pick from our OTs for 1-2 years olds, and for good reason! Bath toys are a great way to help make bath time more fun. They provide countless opportunities to sensory exploration and sensory exposure, and help make a vital ADL (activity of daily living) more enjoyable. There is a bath toy out there for every child, no matter their interests: from gears and container play toys, to animals and fishing activities, and even bath paints and crayons. Our SLPs were equally as excited by these toys, because they provide endless opportunities for building for one-on-one communicative exchanges, and are a great way to build a child’s receptive verb, preposition, and adjective vocabulary.
Stacking and Building Toys
Stacking and building toys are always a great gift for kids one and up.
For kids ages 1-2, we love to use simple stacking toys such as blocks, ring stackers, stacking cups. Our OTs often reach for these toys because they are a fun and functional way to target grasp, bilateral integration, hand-eye coordination, pattern making and identifying, sequencing, and visual motor skills. Our SLPs use stacking toys to work on pre-linguistic skills (skills your child needs before they begin to talk) such as joint attention, following directions, and turn taking.
For kids 2+, take apart toys such as take apart vehicles or animals, are a great way to develop their vocabulary (think object functions, parts of a whole, verbs/action words) and problem-solving skills, help with cooperative play, and provide natural opportunities for self-advocacy (asking for help). Take apart toys also provide a child countless occasions to develop their grasp, improve hand-eye coordination, and work on important executive functioning skills (such as sequencing, planning, initiating, and modulating).
Magna Tiles, Duplo Blocks, and Lego Bricks are all excellent gift ideas for kids three and up. (Lego Bricks are a better choice for kids at least 4 and with adult supervision.) They provided hours of open-ended play and entertainment, while helping improve fine motor skills, bilateral integration, hand-eye coordination, visual motor skills, and executive functioning skills. You can also help improve language skills by providing opportunities to increase adjectives, prepositions and verbs, work on sharing and teamwork/cooperative play, and answering questions (while building and to talk about what they made).
Games
Did you know you can introduce different boardgames and tabletop games to kids as young as three? Boardgames and tabletop games are a fun way to help a child develop their visual motor skills, a variety of fine motor skills, problem solving abilities, executive functioning skills, turn-taking, and social language skills. Cooperative boardgames are also a great way to work on team building and introducing game concepts without the added pressure of trying to “be the winner”.
These are some of our favorite boardgames in the clinic!
Cooperative Games: Feed the Woozle, Count Your Chickens, Hoot Owl Hoot, Snug as a Bug in a Rug
Games for 3-4 year olds: Sneaky Snacky Squirrel, Shark Bite, Yeti In My Spaghetti, and Candyland.
Games for 5+: Jenga, Suspend, Zingo, What’s in Ned’s Head, Grouch Couch, Pull My Finger.
Sensory Toys
Who doesn’t love a sensory toy? Sensory toys come in all varieties, and are the perfect way to provide endless fun and exploration - while also increasing fine motor skills (either picking up with their fingers, or by using tweezers, scoops or scissor scoops) , visual motor and visual perception, and improving language skills (it’s a great way to work on answering WH-questions, building descriptive language, and increasing prepositions).
We love Orbeez (water beads), kinetic sand, and pluffle. These are all great sensory bin materials. Hide and find toys, drive trucks through the bin, or fill and dump containers for endless play. If you’re worried about the mess, just put down an old sheet or place the bin in a round kiddie pool for easy cleanup. Other sensory toys we love and that are always a hit in the clinic are Pop Its, bubbles, sensory bottles.
Cooking and Baking
If you are shopping for someone who is 5+, we always love to recommend cooking and baking tools. This is a great age to introduce the kitchen to your child, and to provide exposure to different foods, offer sensory exploration, and develop hand strength and hand-eye coordination. These activities also work on sequencing, problem-solving, collaboration, and an important IADL... cooking! We love nylon knives for kids, they cut foods easily, but without the added risk of a shape metal blade to accidentally cut themselves, and we love baking kits that include simple recipes and the tools a child needs to get started cooking.
Winter Social and Feeding Groups 2022
Keep an eye out for our lineup of groups
Group Enrollment is OPEN!
Social Groups:
CSC Junior, CSC II, Social Musketeers, Little Boppers, Big Boppers
Dates: January 10- March 4, 2022 (8 weeks)
Feeding Groups:
Pea Pods and Peas of Mind
Dates: January 17- April 4, 2022 (12 weeks)
Covid Updates: How Flourish is keeping your family safe during the Pandemic and Delta Variant Outbreak
The health and safety of clients, families, and staff is of utmost importance. We are abiding by CDC Guidelines to keep a safe environment for all who enter our facility.
The health and safety of clients, families, and staff is of utmost importance. We are abiding by CDC Guidelines to keep a safe environment for all who enter our facility.
Our waiting rooms remain closed. The reason for this is that our waiting rooms are small and we are avoiding the congregation of multiple families. WIth children in tow, it can be difficult to ensure a 6ft social distance.
All of our staff are wearing masks, cleaning surfaces more often, and washing hands frequently.
We require that adults remain masked in the building.. Please ensure full covering of mouth and nose.
We recommend that children wear a mask, especially during group services. We do recognize that the removal of masks may be necessary to ensure the proper treatment is being implemented.
It is mandatory that families stay home if they exhibit any symptoms of illness including but not limited to:· Fever, chills, persistent cough, shortness of breath, unexplained fatigue/body aches, loss of taste and/or smell, sore throat, vomiting, and/or diarrhea. If there has been a past illness, your child must be symptom and fever-reducing medication-free to return to therapy.
If your child is in a school-mandated quarantine due to exposure, you are not permitted to attend therapy until the quarantine has ended.