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  • Getting Started with Occupational Therapy.

    Thank you for your interest in EXPLORE Pediatric Therapy. Please complete this form. Following form completion we will schedule a 15 minute discovery call. Once registered, there is a $100 fee to hold your child's place for our School Year services. This fee will be applied to your first month's tuition once the services begin. Groups start the week of September 15, 2025 and end on Friday, June 12, 2026.
  • Therapeutic Approach:

    • EXPLORE Pediatric Therapy aims to be a neurodivergent affirming practice. We use identify-affirming language (i.e. autistic child) and not person-first language (child with autism) because we believe being neurodivergent is a part of their identity.  Neurodivergency is a different way of thinking, learning, and doing.

    • Our therapists use cues of safety, sensory supports, and relationship-based interventions to support children in sessions. We are not a setting that subscribes to compliance-based ABA principles and strategies.  

    • We are a play-based setting that is motivated to work with your child's strengths and in their unique areas of interests.  

    • EXPLORE Pediatric Therapy values strong parent partnerships, regular communication, and therapy that is focused on very functional and meaningful objectives that the parent helps to write.  Parents are expected to be active partners in the therapy process.  EXPLORE is not the setting to simply drop your child off for a session once a week and that's it.  We are your partners in this journey to help your child thrive.  

    • We say yes to the mess ... every time.  At EXPLORE Pediatric Therapy, your child will leave therapy sessions a little (or a lot) dirty (or wet), sometimes stinky, and sometimes a little tired.  We will not ask your child to NOT play in the mud if they are interested, instead, we WILL play in the mud with them!  

    • EXPLORE is an all-weather setting.  Therapy sessions take place in the heat, cold, rain, wind, and sun.  We shelter under tarp forts from heavy downpour rain.  We embrace all of these weather variables as opportunities in the therapy process. The two variables that would result in a cancellation of services is extremely high winds, and extremely low temperatures in the winter that are considered frostbite conditions. 

    • We are NOT the right setting for every child or every family.  When you select EXPLORE Pediatric Therapy to help your child be their best through outdoor occupational therapy, you understand the above is the EXPLORE therapeutic approach and you are ready for your child to grow and learn and thrive under these principles.
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  • Behavior Policy:

    Our therapists use cues of safety, sensory supports, and relationship-based interventions to help children handle big emotions and behaviors. Children who attend our services must be able to follow simple directions (most of the time!), and have basic safety awareness to be in wild nature settings with the therapist but NOT always within arm’s reach.


    Our groups take place on acres of natural space with access to rivers, streams, ponds, elevation changes, trees, and natural hazards like thorny plants and potential animals. This is not an ideal environment for children who have significant behaviors or support needs for safety in this setting. If a child has disruptive behaviors that impact the safety of themselves or the therapists in this environment, we will immediately collaborate with the parents to discuss relationship-based strategies to further support safety in the environment. Should it be decided by the therapist and parent that this setting is not a good fit for the child, services will be terminated.

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