Shorkey Center- Where Children Are Our Business

The Shorkey Center exists to provide services for the individual with special needs. These services include effective physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation; direct education services including therapy for children with autism and other related disorders; and parent assistance support

Pediatric Physical Therapy Services

The physical therapy staff at the Shorkey Center provides individual assessment of strength, movement, ambulation, range of motion, balance and gross motor skills. They provide home programming to promote appropriate motor functioning. The PT staff performs Orthotic evaluation and monitoring as well as aquatic therapy to help with motor function.

Pediatric Occupational Therapy

The Pediatric Occupational Therapist makes an assessment of self-help skills, oral motion functioning, strength, movement patterns, range of motion and fine motor skills. They perform treatment and home programming to promote activities for daily living and leisure. They also evaluate and perform treatment of sensory integration dysfunction as well as sensory diet integration.

Adapted Pediatric Aquatic Therapy Services

The Adapted Aquatic Program assists in improving range of motion, motor skills, and relaxation while at the same time provide water recreation. The therapist fosters achievement of land based OT/PT goals as well as the recovery and/or functional training process. Summer programs provide an opportunity for adaptive swim lessons for Shorkey children.

Pediatric Speech Therapy Communication Services

The Speech Therapy staff provides in house and school-based intervention services for children with communication disorders and develops an individualized communication plan. The staff provides parent information for activities to transfer communication skills to the home. This much needed speech program works collaboratively with the existing physical and occupational therapy programs.

K.I.D.S. (Kids in Day Treatment School)

K.I.D.S. is a full time one–to-one teaching program which uses the principle of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to educate students in the areas of their delays. Some of these delays include but are not limited to language, social and executive functioning skills, behavior management, academics/school readiness and self help skills. This program is offered to students from ages 3-21. The Shorkey Center uses errorless training as the basis of our teaching. Data is recorded on a daily basis for every objective currently targeted. Quarterly progress reports are given to all children who receive occupational, physical and speech therapy as needed.

(Kids in Day Treatment School) K.I.D.S. II Down Syndrome

K.I.D.S. II is a full time one–to-one teaching program which uses the AEYPS Curriculum to educate students in the areas of their delays. Some of these delays include but are not limited to language, social and executive functioning skills, school readiness and self help skills. This program is offered to students from ages 3 months to age 5. Data is recorded on a daily basis for every objective currently targeted. Quarterly progress reports are given to all children who receive occupational, physical and speech therapy as needed.

Community Outreach Part-Time/Parent Training ABA Educational ProgramThis part-time program is a one-on-one teaching program which uses the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis to teach children with language, social behavioral or academic delays. The goal of the program is to work directly with a child on specific deficits targeted by the parent and/or provide training to parent/caregivers or other professionals using ABA techniques which will be implemented in the child’s other environments. The Community Outreach staff works with children under the supervision of the Shorkey K.I.D.S. program coordinator.