Leaps and Bounds Therapy Services

Leaps and Bounds Therapy provides pediatric physical, occupational, and speech therapy services in your home servicing Chicago and the North suburbs.

What is Pediatric Physical Therapy?

Pediatric Physical Therapy is skilled services that a licensed physical therapist customizes to help babies and children of all ages learn to activate muscles of their body to move, and tolerate a variety of positions, to the best of their abilities to participate in daily activities.

Gross Motor Development
Stability & Mobility
Strengthening & Stretching
Balance & Coordination

What is Pediatric Occupational Therapy?

Pediatric Occupational Therapy is skilled services that a licensed occupational therapist customizes to help children gain independence, while also strengthening the development of fine motor skills, sensory motor skills, and visual motor skills that children need to function, attend, play and socialize.

Fine Motor Development
Visual Motor Development
Motor Planning & Coordination
Executive Functioning Skills & Self-Help
Sensory Processing & Self-Regulation Skills

What is Pediatric Speech Therapy?

Pediatric Speech Therapy is skilled services that a licensed speech pathologist customizes to help children communicate effectively by assisting with the improvement of their verbal and non-verbal language skills in a play based manner. They also assist with feeding if a baby or child has feeding difficulties.

Speech & Language Development
Articulation
Fluency
Communication
Emergent literacy
Social interaction skills

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What We Offer:

Pediatric physical, occupational, and speech therapy services to babies and children in your home, child’s daycare, or child’s school.
Prompt evaluation and treatment services from the moment you call
Individualized and personalized treatment approaches to meet your child and family’s needs
Play based activities and strategies customized by a licensed physical therapist, occupational therapist and speech therapist
Team approach: our licensed therapists will encourage family members, caregivers, and teachers to be a part of the session.

Locations:

Leaps and Bounds Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists come to you: your child’s therapy will happen in your home, child’s daycare or school. By providing therapy in your child’s natural environment, we can ensure your child is where they feel most comfortable.

Locations include: Chicago, Skokie, Evanston, Northbrook, Glenview Winnetka, Wilmette, Highland Park, Deerfield, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, Gurnee. Please contact us to inquire about services in areas that are not listed.

Payment Information:

Leaps and Bounds Therapy is contracted with Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO, and can submit claims for patients with PPO and PPO Choice plans as an in-network provider. If you have a Blue Cross PPO or Choice plan, please contact your insurance provider about coverage.

For patients with insurance plans other than BCBS PPO plans, we will bill you directly. Payment is expected at the time of service. Please feel free to email us for our service rates.

Areas of Specialty:

Gross Motor Development

A generalized term to describe movements related to large muscles such a legs, arms, neck, core and trunk. Skills in children may include: lifting their head, crawling, sitting, standing, walking, running, jumping, navigating stairs in order to participate in home, school, and community environments.

Torticollis

A condition in which an infant’s head persistently tilts to one side and turns to one side.

Plagiocephaly

A condition in which specific areas of an infant’s head develop in a flattened shape and appearance. It can also affect symmetry of the face and is often seen with torticollis.

Gait abnormalities

When a person is unable to walk in a usual way. There are typical and atypical variations that can be clinically assessed by a licensed physical therapist to figure out the potential cause and any red flags.

Orthotic Intervention

Inserts that can be used to assist with flat feet, toe walking, weakness, locked knees, poor balance, frequent tripping, leg length discrepancies, etc. Proper assessment and referral can be made by one of our licensed physical therapists

Coordination

The ability to move efficiently, carefully, quickly, and purposefully. This often requires a child to have good motor planning and body awareness

Muscle Strength

How strong the child is (how much muscular force can be exerted) and muscular endurance is how long the child’s muscles can work at a time to tolerate a variety of positions and movements.

Balance

Having an even distribution of weight on each side of a vertical axis, but more simply, a child’s ability to not fall over.

Postural Control

A child’s ability to assume and maintain upright posture seated or standing without support. A child who has proper postural control can sustain this position without fatigue or compensations. Adequate postural control is needed for circle time, sitting at a desk, and engaged in play.

Hypotonia

Low muscle tone. A lack of resistance to passive movement. Also can be referred to as “floppy”.

Hypertonia

High muscle tone. Too much muscle tone so that arms or legs, for example, are stiff. Increased resistance to passive movement.

Orthopedic Conditions and Injuries

Injuries, diseases or conditions that affect the musculoskeletal system. These can be from trauma or congenital.

Brain and Neurologic Conditions

Injuries, diseases or conditions that affect the nervous system. The nervous system is composed of organs, principally the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia. These, in turn, consist of various tissues, including nerve, blood, and connective tissue.

Genetic Conditions

Conditions that occur due to a mutation in a gene in the body’s cells. Genetic conditions can be caused by a change to a single gene, many genes, or damage to the overall chromosomes that carry the genes. Some genetic conditions are hereditary, which means they are passed along from parent to child. Others can happen for the first time in a baby.

Motor planning

A child’s ability to organize, plan and then carry out new tasks. It is the first step in learning new skills and requires accurate information from all sensory systems of the body, and mature body awareness, pereption of movement and awareness of space. For children who demonstrate difficulty with motor planning, practice, repetition, and therapeutic intervention are key to success.

Fine Motor Development

The process of developing the ability to use the small muscles in your hands, fingers, wrists, and feet to make precise movements and manipulate objects. Children develop fine motor skills from birth to adulthood. Babies and toddlers need a lot of playtime and practice to develop these skills. These skills also help with hand-eye coordination.

Executive Functioning Skills

Skills that allow us to plan, organize, prioritize, focus attention, control impulses, and adapt to new situations. They essentially act as the “air traffic control” of our brain to manage complex tasks and achieve goals effectively.

Sensory Processing

How our body takes in information through our senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, movement, and body position) and then uses it to interact with the world around us. Some people may have a unique sensory profile as they may be over responsive or under responsive to certain senses requiring strategies to be implemented to support them.