Anaheim Hills Pediatric Therapy, Inc.

Happy Independence Day to everyone. Enjoy your celebration! We are closed today in honor of our country’s birthday. 🇺🇸

Summer is here and it’s time to have some fun! Join us for Summer Themes Week. Each week will be a different theme for your kiddos to wear that week’s theme. We look forward to seeing what you all come dressed in!! This is not mandatory, just for fun ☀️🏝️👸🏽🏈🫧

Fun yummy “dirt” and worms activity with OT for kids!!
Following a recipe works on so many skills including: ✨Develop executive functioning skills such as planning, organizing, and sequencing
✨Develops self-confidence in skills for daily living
✨Promote food exploration and sensory input through various textures for improved feeding tolerance

Ingredients: Chocolate jello pudding, crushed Oreos, & gummy worms

Happy OT Month!

Feeding is an important skill OT’s work on a daily basis.

Here are some tips to help your child participate in feeding!

1. Explore new foods through play - get creative and make food a fun experience!
2. “Touch, smell, kiss, lick, bite, eat”- This food progression method helps your child become comfortable by first touching the food with their fingers, smelling the food, then eventually working towards kissing, licking, biting and eating it.
3. Model - provide positive interactions with food so your child can see the food presented isn’t scary.
4. Mealtime routine - create a routine where your child has 3 meals a day at the same time everyday.

When your kiddo tolerates having her hair styled ✨✨

BUG BUDDIES 🐛🐞🦋. Welcoming new friends to our Caterpillar and Bug Buddies group! Please let us know if you or a friend are interested in joining in on our fun and educational learning groups surrounded by peers and ran by licensed occupational and physical therapists.

Call or message to inquire more information regarding age, availability, and group options for your child. We can’t wait for your child to join the fun!

We are hiring a fulltime PT! Interested in having Fridays off and joining the most awesome team? Want to learn how to do a therasuit intensive? Want to utilize the UEU system in your treatment sessions?

We are also hiring a fulltime speech and language pathologist and SLPA! We have a LONG waitlist of kids ready to work on their communication skills!

Interested in applying? Message me here or email your resume to [email protected]

Buttons but make it fun!

Great way to work on core and upper body strength as well as those fine motor skills 💪

Wishing all of you out there a beautiful last day of 2023. We are looking forward to all the greatness coming in 2024!

I’ve heard numerous people say they couldn’t wait for this year end. Just hurry up and end Christmas holiday so we can get started with the new year. Now, it feels like we blinked and Christmas was over. Don’t rush through the days too hurried. Enjoy these moments with your children, despite your reasons for wanting the new year to get started. The days are long, but the years are so so short.

Happy New Year ahead in 2024. We look forward to bringing new opportunity and resources to your child’s developmental growth and success! ❤️🎉🎈

Looking for a to join our team! Want to be a part of therasuit intensives? Want to work with the most amazing kids and work alongside a great team of therapists?

Message me at [email protected] for more info!

Our clinic began with just physical therapy several years ago. We are celebrating October as a nationally honored month to celebrate all of the benefits physical therapy can provide.

In light of this celebration, we are also a or . None of our full time staff is scheduled more than 36 hours a week and has the option to have Fridays off. Why not look for a job that brings fulfillment and long weekends to your life? Happy to share more details in a DM or email me at [email protected]

Here is a great resource created by one of our graduate OT students for fine motor activities for babies to 10 year olds!

I just took my youngest child with autism to the University of Utah where he is bravely choosing to be completely independent and start his college journey 10 hours from home, several states away. One of the hardest things I’ve had to do…walk away and leave him in the unknown, rooming with strangers, unsupported, unexperienced, packed with his youth, humble and extra empathetic soul, primed to be taken advantage of. Be proud and excited for him, yet experience great sorrow in saying goodbye.

Driving back without him, I listened to Granger Smith’s new book on audio, “Like a River.” I have been following Granger and his family since his youngest (at the time…don’t want to spoil the story!) drowned at age 3 in 2019. Even though I had listened to interviews with Granger and his wife and followed their you tube channel “the smiths,” I was glued to every word he read about his journey through that unthinkable day, and the even more dark and deafening days following, figuring out how to navigate life with insurmountable grief.

Having a child with a special need is never anything that a mother or father prepares for. Whether your child is born with a known genetic syndrome, general delays grow with development, a regression happens, or a traumatic injury occurs, milestones are missed and somehow you melt through the sorrow and disbelief to advocating and championing this sweet soul created from your DNA. At least, that’s what is supposed to happen.

Granger depicts beautifully in his book how grief from a loss and joy from blessings in life can coexist together, literally sharing the same space in a room, in your heart and mind. If you are in need of hearing more about this, I highly recommend checking out this audiobook. He reads it himself, but also gives side talks that the paper book doesn’t offer. It inspired me greatly on my journey home and I thought I would share the recommendation for anyone here who may be wrestling with a new diagnosis or new to therapy and the world of parenting a child with special needs.

We are hiring a PT and OT! Give us a call if you’re interested or message us here.

Our schedule shifted and we have open spots coming up!

Starting September 18th through the end of the year we have 4 spots open if you want to book an intensive for your child! Sessions recommended at minimum are 3 weeks, Monday through Thursdays 2-5pm.

Some of you may be noticing a lot of change going on within our clinic. This is the best time of year to change things up, while kids are starting new school years, with new teachers, new school clothes, new lunchboxes and meal ideas, changes in our daylight, temperatures and cooler evenings, changes in our sleep schedule, wake schedule and homework now added to the schedule.

If there’s one thing life has proven to me, it is that change is certain. Many times we can take advantage of change to improve upon what was. This has always been my mindset, especially in raising my triplets plus one.

We are welcoming the upcoming changes in our clinic setup to be more inclusive and safe for our little ones. While many of our staff are moving on to other opportunities, it is a welcoming change to introduce new expertise and ideas to foundations already laid. Many of you parents won’t see it that way. I encourage you to see this perspective. Just like leaves that fall in autumn, they make way for new growth and beauty during the next season, with even stronger and sturdier foundation and roots.

Trust in the season to come. And enjoy the beauty it promises.

Anyone need foam flooring? Probably 40-50 squares 12”x12” each

$65 first come first serve

We are excited to start a transition to move into an adjacent downstairs suite as the stairs present a safety issue. Doing a little cleaning and reorganizing along the way. These items are up for sale!

THOMAS TOY BOX FREE!
Stationary bike $50
Art table $50
Two person station $100

Message me for inquiries. First come first serve.

We have decided to sell our climbing dome. So many kids love it…imagine it could be in your backyard!

Message me if you’re interested in buying this for a great discounted price.

We are hiring a speech therapist 😊Happy to help our kiddos communicate even better than they are now! Give us a call 714-794-5889.

Are you wondering if your child’s meltdowns are behavioral or sensory based? Take a quick read ☺️

Sometimes we have to find creative ways to access resources for our children. We have partnered with the Maryam Parman Foundation for Children twice now to provide funding for children to attend a therasuit intensive session. Link in our bio if you want to donate or learn more about it ❤️

Seven years ago today we opened our door, at the time of just Suite 150. We had just one bathroom for EVERYONE to use, the treadmill was in my office, and we had a tiny waiting room area. So much unknown was before me, as there still is today. I’ve seen staff revolve, and many children and families begin therapies and then graduate. We’ve started our BUG Buddies nonprofit, allowing every child the chance for social and developmental focused group experiences. We started our therasuit intensive program allowing a progressive approach to mobility to be accessible here in Southern California, while a limited resource in the USA. We grew and added on Suite 160, changing our front entrance, and then the upstairs two suites for bonus space, a kitchen, and more bathrooms ❤️

What an amazing way to celebrate the freedoms of America on July 4th and then celebrate the entrepreneurship and opportunity of our community with our clinic birthday, July 5th, 2016.

Many cheers to all the people that have helped shape our clinic along the way 🥂🇺🇸💕🎉🥳🎈

Y’all don’t forget it’s country western week over yonder. We look forward to seeing some great pics from our waiting area photo area. Please share and tag us!

We can only ask you to put yourself in the shoes of a parent who just found out her little girl is fighting so hard to stay in the race if life. Please click on the link in our bio to read B.G.’s story and consider donating so that she might receive treatment that shouldn’t be so very expensive. Thank you for opening your hearts to be filled by this sweet soul.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/b-g-foundation

It’s that time of year!!! Summer themes start next week, so get ready, get set and let’s go 👏

Many of you wait longer to hear “I love you” or don’t receive a hug today because your child has a different timeline and needs. Here is a huge shout to all of our special needs moms and grandmas. We see your hard work and compassion. Happy Mother’s Day!

Another celebration this week of an exceptional therapist we are saying good-bye to. Ms. Jolina, who was our very first OT, is moving to Arkansas with her family and we wish her all the very best in their new chapter! We will all miss her expertise and amazing ability to help children make such incredible gains. May she be a blessing to the new families that she will serve in a new state. We will always cherish her! ❤️

Today, our hearts are happy and sad as Ms. Debby leaves her last day as an OT assistant. She has been working hard to complete her masters degree in OT and is off to complete her fieldwork in various settings. I am so thankful for Debby’s passion, commitment and dedication that we have seen children prosper from themselves! We will have a place for her here always if one day she should return as an OT ❤️

So many great things happened in 2022 for our clinic and community. • we doubled our space
• expanded our OT staff by 2 therapists
• expanded our PT staff by 1 therapist
• started up speech therapy services with 2 therapists
• full year of therasuit intensives which were phenomenal!
• BUG Buddies continued to grow where every child is welcome to have a preschool or social experience in our 3:1 kids to teacher ratio classes, regardless of medical needs, potty training not required

Did you know our group programs included in BUG Buddies are a 501c3 non-profit? Your tuition to attend is a tax write off!

Every little bit helps as we took on a much larger space and rent this year. We would love to add more opportunities and giveaways to our families. If you are looking for a place to donate for your end of year giving, call/text our main office 714-794-5889 or email [email protected] ❤️

Also, make sure you are following our BUG Buddies Instagram to see what goes on there!