Clinical Service by The Kioko Center

THE KIOKO CENTER

Our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them.

THE KIOKO CENTER’S MISSION AND VISION

About Us The Kioko Center has been providing expert occupational and speech therapy services to children and young adults, ages birth to 21 years, since 2006. During that time, we have developed the highest quality standards for our therapies and services. Our staff are highly trained and prepared to integrate the latest therapy techniques into your child’s sessions.

Always treat its team members with respect and dignity, while providing the resources needed for them to be successful personally and professionally. This enables us to deliver Occupational Therapy and speech therapy to the children we work within a safe and nurturing environment. The Kioko Center is dedicated to providing caregivers with resources and training relevant to their child’s diagnosis so that the children we serve achieve their highest level of functionality and well-being.

CLINICAL SERVICES

At the Kioko Center, our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them.

We offer Speech T herapy and occupational Therapy in our clinic and online. We provide our patients with the latest therapeutic interventions to encourage amazing progress in a fun and family-oriented atmosphere.

Our clinical work gives the children and young adults we work with the tools they need to reach their full potential.

At the Kioko Center, our passion is helping children with special needs and the families and caregivers that support them.

Kioko’s clinic is fully operational year-round! Continual therapy during the summer encourages amazing progress and helps avoid regression when school is out-of-session. Fun fact: If you child has an IEP, most insurances will pay for therapy during the summer!

SENSORY PROCESSING AND INTEGRATION

Sensory processing or sensory integration refers to how our body receives, understands, and uses information from the senses. One component of this process is sensory integration, which includes interpretation, coordination, and organization of sensation. Efficient sensory integration enables us to plan appropriate action and behavior and learn new skills. Sensory information comes from all senses and may originate from one’s body (balance sense, joint and muscle sense, touch sense) or the Sensory environment (sight, sound, temperature, and Modulation texture). The two sensory integration components Refers to the nature and intensity of our reactions to are sensory modulation and sensory discrimination. sensation. This includes whether a sensation arouses These components are interrelated and important or calms, irritates or soothes, distracts or help focus for the acquisition of motor and perceptual skills. attention, feels threatening or comforts. Effective sensory modulation enables us to make an appropriate response. Problems in sensory modulation may affect behavior, emotions, motor responses and other skills.

SELF REGULATION Self-regulation is our bodies ability to attain, maintain, and change arousal appropriately for a task or situation. (Williams & Shellenberger, 1994, p 1-5) It is our ability to manage your own energy states, emotions, behaviors, and attention, in ways that are socially acceptable and help achieve positive goals such as maintaining good relationships learning and maintaining wellbeing.”

Kioko Center is the best clinic to get Occupational Therapy S ervices for Self-Regulation, whether you are looking for your child or a young adult. Call us for more detail.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOR HANDWRITING

Handwriting refers to the mechanical parts of the actual act of forming letters, numbers, strokes, lines, or simple/complex figures to demonstrate graphomotor skills.

• Memory: Remembering and writing dictated letters • Orientation: Orienting or facing letters in the correct direction.

• Size: A sizing error occurs when a letter or number is formed larger than the margin of error, which is 1 grade level below the

CONTACT US

820 Turnpike St #104, North Andover, Massachusetts 01845, United States

kioko@kiokocenter.com 978-681-6605