Kids in Stride - who are we?

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
https://kidsinstride.weebly.com

We offer therapeutic skilled services that focus on independence for a child and their family. If a child is having difficulty with cognitive, physical, sensory, and motor skills, our Therapy services can help.

List of common diagnoses we treat but are not limited to:

• ADD

Attention deficit disorder is a neurological disorder that causes a range of behavior problems such as difficulty attending to instruction, focusing on schoolwork, keeping up with assignments, following instructions, completing tasks, and social interaction.

• ADHD

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a chronic condition that affects millions of children and often continues into adulthood. ADHD includes a combination of persistent problems, such as difficulty sustaining attention, hyperactivity, and impulsive behavior.

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

It is a problem that affects a child's nervous system and growth and development. It often shows up during a child's first 3 years of life. Some children with ASD seem to live in their own world. They are not interested in other children and lack social awareness.

• Cerebral Palsy

It is a problem that affects muscle tone, movement, and motor skills. Often is caused by brain damage that happens before or during a baby's birth, or during the first 3-to-5 years of a child's life.

• Developmental Disabilities

Is a group of conditions due to an impairment in physical, learning, language, or behavior areas? About one in six children in the U.S. have one or more developmental disabilities or other developmental delays.

• Down Syndrome

Also called Trisomy 21, is a condition in which a person is born with an extra chromosome, with Down syndrome, the extra chromosome causes delays in the way a child develops, mentally and physically.

• Dyslexia

It is a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words (decoding). Most children with dyslexia can succeed in school with tutoring or a specialized education program. Emotional support also plays an important role

. Dysgraphia (a form of Dyslexia)

It is a learning disability that affects writing abilities. It can manifest itself as difficulties with spelling, poor handwriting, and trouble putting thoughts on paper. Because writing requires a complex set of motor and information processing skills, saying a student has dysgraphia is not sufficient.

• Feeding Difficulties

Is an umbrella term encompassing all feeding problems, regardless of etiology, severity, or consequences? It includes any problems that affect the process of providing food to the child.

• Fine Motor Skills

Are achieved when children learn to use their smaller muscles, like muscles in the hands, fingers, and wrists. Children use their fine motor skills when writing, holding small items, buttoning clothing, turning pages, eating, cutting with scissors, and using computer keyboards.

• Genetic Disorder

It is a category of diseases that includes certain types of birth defects, chronic diseases, developmental problems, and sensory deficits that are inherited from one or both parents.

• Listening therapy

It is to be used as part of a daily home program, in combination with additional sensory integrative activities, to achieve goals and skills. The Therapeutic Listening program uses a variety of music, chosen specifically for each child to meet his/her particular needs.

• Neurological Disorder

This occurs when something is abnormal in the brain, the nervous system or the muscle cells. These disorders can vary from epilepsy to migraine headaches to tic or movement disorders and more.

• Sensory Processing Disorder

This occurs when a child has a difficult time receiving and responding to information from their senses. Children who have sensory issues may have an aversion to anything that triggers their senses, such as light, sound, touch, taste, or smell

• Traumatic Brain Injury

It is a form of nondegenerative 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.

• Visual Motor Delays

Early signs of visual-motor problems in children can include missed milestones and delays in gross motor skills, such as crawling, standing, and walking, or fine motor skills, such as grasping and manipulating objects or gripping crayons.


Speech and Language Pathology provides treatments that  can aid in the diagnosis of many disorders including but not limited to:        

• Craniofacial Myology
• Pediatric feeding aversion
• Cleft left lip and palate
• Receptive language disorders
• Expressive language disorders
• Aural habilitation/rehabilitation 
• Dysphasia disorders
• Pragmatic language disorders

People of all ages can benefit from Speech and Language Pathology, such as infants, pre-school-aged children, school-aged children, and adults.

Ages: Birth through 18 years of age

Services to counties: Cherokee, Graham, Macon, Clay, Union, Fannin, Polk, Monroe, and any other county you are willing to travel here from.

Insurances Accepted: NC Medicaid, BCBS Healthy Blues NC Medicaid, Crescent, Cigna, Aetna, Tricare, Medcost, Humana, ChampVa, Core Source, and NC Wellcare, Medicaid.

We are currently working to be able to provide care to children with: If your child is receiving therapy services in the school setting, we may still be able to provide services: We work closely with the school system/therapists to ensure all goals are being addressed for home and school needs. If your child is receiving services in the school for school-related tasks, however, continues to have difficulties with tasks at home such as dressing, following directions, etc. we may be able to help. If your child did not qualify for school therapy it doesn’t mean your child does not qualify for Occupational therapy.

We specialize in working with children for a variety of needs:

• Self-dressing
• Handwriting
• Attention difficulties
• Balance, coordination
• Coping/regulation skills
• Core strengthening
• Fine motor skills
• Upper body strengthening
• Self-help skills
• Positioning
• Adaptive equipment
• Following directions
• Problem-solving

We are creating the perfect space for your children

We have 8 Sensory Processing Systems

1. Visual is responsible for seeing

2. The auditory system is responsible for hearing

3. Olfactory is responsible for processing smell

4. Gustatory is responsible for the sense of taste

5. Tactile is processing touch information

6. Vestibular contributes to balance and orientation in space. It is the leading system informing us about the movement and position of the head relative to gravity

7. Proprioceptive informs us of sensations from muscles and joint movement

8. Interoception is sensations related to the physiological and physical conditions of the body

When these Sensory Processing Systems are all working correctly we are balanced and can adapt to our surrounding environment. But, when there is a Disorder in any of these processing systems, it is up to the parent or teacher to find which sensory system is being affected. By careful observation and discussing behaviors with parents and caregivers, we are able to enter into their world and learn what it takes to create balance in these systems again. Our goal at Kids in Stride is to help find the limitation and help them to create order in their world working together towards their independence. Please call us today @ 828-516-1700 we are accepting new patients

How We Got Started 

We were approached by an OT that was retiring her business and knew there was a need for Therapy for Kids in our area. We did a soft opening on June 1st, 2017. In a short time period, we were growing and officially opened our door on October 5th, 2017.  And then moved to our new location and opened full time on February 13th, 2018. Today we have expanded into a 4,000 square foot facility and growing.

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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
https://kidsinstride.weebly.com