WE LOVE OUR KIDS OUR TEAM and YOU
Kids in Stride would like to take this time to say how much we appreciate YOU.
YOU, meaning our family at Kids in Stride, for all you do on a daily basis to keep the business running smooth and caring for all the people that you meet and see regularly as well as each other.
YOU, meaning our patients who trust in us to get you to your next goal in your life,
YOU, meaning the parents who seek us out and work alongside us to see that your child is getting all that they need to make it in life.
YOU, our referrers who come alongside us and work closely with us to achieve the goals and milestones set together for our patients.
Thank you, we appreciate YOU more than you know.
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Speech and Language Pathology
Kids may need speech-language therapy for a variety of reasons:
- Hearing impairments
- Cognitive or other developmental delays
- Weak oral muscles
- Chronic hoarseness
- Birth defects such as cleft lip or cleft palate
- Autism
- Motor planning problems
- Articulation problems
- Fluency disorders
- Respiratory problems or breathing disorders
- Feeding and swallowing disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapy should begin as soon as possible. Children enrolled in therapy early, before they’re 5 years old, tend to have better outcomes than those who begin therapy later.
Speech-Language Pathology can help with:
- Articulation issues: Unable to speak clearly and making mistakes in sounds.
- Fluency issues: Difficulties with the flow of speech, for instance, stuttering.
- Resonance or voice issues: Difficulties with voice pitch, quality, and volume.
- Oral feeding issues: Trouble eating, swallowing as well as drooling.
- Receptive language issues: Difficulties understanding language.
- Expressive language issues: Difficulties speaking the language.
- Pragmatic language issues: Difficulties making use of language in a way that is socially proper.
- Language intervention activities: they are meant to develop skills in a number of ways, like modeling and giving the children feedback
- Articulation therapy: The therapist models the sounds with which the child is having difficulties. This can include showing the child how to move his tongue in order to create certain sounds.
- Feeding and swallowing therapy: teach the child exercises that help to toughen the muscles of the mouth. This can include facial massages and different lip, jaw, and tongue exercises.
Kids with reading difficulties like dyslexia will benefit from speech therapy as it can assist them to hear and differentiate particular sounds in words. This can enhance reading comprehension skills and motivate them to read. This therapy is more beneficial if it's started when the kids are very young.
One of the duties of our therapist is to give the child strategies on how to handle hindrances more effectively. We might give them activities to do at home to strengthen their skills. Speech therapy is one of the ways that can help a child with learning problems related to speech and language.
Kids in Stride is therapy designed specifically for kids with developmental challenges in their movement, play, speech, language, learning, and behavior. We are a privately owned practice in two locations Murphy 828-516-1700 & Franklin 828-634-7800, NC. Choosing Kids in Stride as your Therapy provider allows you to receive Occupational, Physical, and Speech Therapy on site, ensuring that you experience a truly integrated multi-disciplinary service. Our Pediatric Therapy is designed to deliver functional skills to increase independence. Our therapy programs are based around upper extremity functioning, fine and visual motor skills, and sensory-motor integration.
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Neurological Disorder
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Who are we video from Kids in Stride which is therapy designed specifically for kids with developmental challenges in their movement, play, speech, language, learning, and behavior.
We are a privately owned practice in two locations Murphy 828-516-1700 & Franklin 828-634-7800, NC.
Choosing Kids in Stride as your Therapy provider allows you to receive Occupational, Physical, and Speech Therapy on site, ensuring that you experience a truly integrated multi-disciplinary service.
Our Pediatric Therapy is designed to deliver functional skills to increase independence. Our therapy programs are based on upper extremity functioning, fine and visual motor skills, and sensory-motor integration.
Visual Motor Delays
Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury – A form of non-degenerative acquired brain injury resulting from a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or body or a penetrating head injury that disrupts normal brain function.
Website updates to include both locations Murphy and Franklin NC
Kids in Stride website is now updated to include our Franklin location.
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The Southern Scoop article about our 2nd location for Kids in Stride Franklin NC
Franklin, NC Location for Kids in Stride
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Convergence Insufficiency
Convergence Insufficiency
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is a common binocular/two-eyed vision disorder in which the eyes do not work easily. The eyes have a strong tendency to drift outward when reading or doing close work. If the eyes do drift out, the person is likely to have double vision.
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February is Heart Month and Cardiac Care
February is American Heart Month, a time when all people can focus on their cardiovascular health. The Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention is shining a light on hypertension (high blood pressure), a leading risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
TENS & NMES for Physical Therapy
TENS = Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
TENS in pediatrics is used for treating nerve pain and easing pain after an operation. It works best for pain that is localized.
NMES = Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
NMES in pediatrics is used for improving strength, motor function and is usually used during exercise or walking to improve gait.
If you are interested in the use of TENS or NMES have your doctor make a referral.
Autism Spectrum Disorder 4
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is comprised of a range of complex neurological disorders that impair social, communicative, and cognitive functions.
Defining Autism
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a genetic neurological disorder. Those with ASD have impaired social, communicative, and cognitive functions.
- Individuals with ASD suffer from cognitive impairments, though some have typical or above-average IQs.
- ASD behaviors include stereotyped actions such as hand flapping and body rocking, insistence on sameness, resistance to change, and, in some cases, aggression or self-injury.
- Once thought to be very rare, autism spectrum disorders are estimated to occur in as many as 1: 59 (one in every 59 children)
- Our experience taught us that child-led therapy creates new and lasting benefits for everyone involved.
- Diagnosis can be scary. As parents of a child with Autism, we understand firsthand the anxiety that comes with learning your child is different.
- But different shouldn’t mean your child has to be misunderstood or alienated. And different certainly doesn’t mean they can’t live a full and rich life with warm and significant relationships.
If you would like to see if we can help here is our information: Occupational Therapy for children is a therapeutic skilled service that focuses on independence for a child and their family. If a child is having difficulty with cognitive, physical, sensory, and motor skills, Occupational Therapy is a service that can help.
Kids in Stride - Therapy designed for Kids
Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapy
2810 W. Us Hwy 64 Suite 2
Murphy, NC 28906
828-516-1700
Autism Spectrum Disorder 3
People with ASD often have symptoms or aspects of other conditions, such as:
- a learning disability.
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Tourette's syndrome or other tic disorders.
- epilepsy.
- dyspraxia.
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- generalized anxiety disorder.
- depression.
If you would like to see if we can help here is our information: Occupational Therapy for children is a therapeutic skilled service that focuses on independence for a child and their family. If a child is having difficulty with cognitive, physical, sensory, and motor skills, Occupational Therapy is a service that can help.
Kids in Stride - Therapy designed for Kids
Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapy
2810 W. Us Hwy 64 Suite 2
Murphy, NC 28906
828-516-1700