Evaluations
At Over The Moon, you have the benefit of a team-based approach with a coordinated model of care. Our speech and OT services are grounded in the developmental model of DIRFloortime.
GETTING STARTED
We will ask you to fill out a developmental history form to begin the process and schedule your appointment. Prior to the evaluation, we will spend an hour reviewing your child’s history. We will help you determine which evaluation is best for your child during your intake interview.
Standard Occupational Therapy Evaluation
Cost: $550
This evaluation helps us understand how your child processes sensory information, movement, and what types of play they enjoy. In addition, we will conduct standardized testing to identify more specific skills and provide a full assessment. This evaluation is best for children under 3 and children who are not yet able to follow verbal directions.
Standard occupational therapy evaluations take 60-90 minutes and include a direct assessment with your child. After the assessment, we will provide a comprehensive report along with an initial treatment plan. We then will meet virtually to go over the evaluation, set goals, and update the treatment plan.
Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Evaluation
Cost: $900
This evaluation provides all of the assessment provided in the Standard Occupational Therapy Evaluation in addition to the Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration (EASI) test. The EASI is a comprehensive set of tests that assess sensory perception, praxis skills, sensory reactivity, and sensory motor skills. These skills make up the foundation of learning and function, and help provide a deep understanding of your child's sensory processing needs and profile.
The EASI typically takes 3-4 hours to administer and can be done over the course of 1-2 sessions. After the assessment, we will provide a comprehensive report along with an initial treatment plan. We will meet to go over the evaluation and explain the findings, as well as determine the plan of care.
Combined Occupational
& Speech Therapy Evaluation
Cost: $1000 (standard) or $1300 (includes EASI testing)
This evaluation provides insight into sensory processing, motor skills, speech and language capacities, and social emotional developmental skills, which allows us to build a comprehensive developmental profile for your child. This is an excellent option for families who want to develop a Comprehensive DIR/Floortime Program.
Combined speech and standard occupational evaluations take 2-2.5 hours to administer. When combined with a complex occupational evaluation, session will take approximately 5-6 hours. If necessary, we can split the evaluation into two sessions, but both therapists must be present for the entire evaluation. After the evaluation, we will provide a comprehensive report and set up a virtual meeting in which we can discuss the evaluation results, set goals, and determine a plan of care.
Basic Speech Therapy Evaluation
Cost: $550
This evaluation assesses play skills, difficulties imitating sounds, and a sense of how the child understands language. It includes evaluating how language is being produced - including sound errors, grammar and use of echolalia and gestalts. While we administer standardized testing, it is through play, interview and collecting a language sample.
Speech therapy evaluations include 60-90 minutes of direct assessment with your child as well as a one hour interview with your therapist prior to the evaluation. After the evaluation, we will provide an initial plan of care and recommendations, and set up a virtual meeting in which we can discuss results, set goals, and determine a treatment plan.
Speech Generating Alternative Augmentative Communication Device (AAC) Evaluation
Cost: $670
We use a strength based approach during the evaluation process, which focuses on the skills of the individual and ways in which the clients strengths can be used to make progress toward their goals.
Evaluations include an one hour interview with the therapist prior to the evaluation, 60-90 minutes of direct assessment in a play based setting with your child. After the evaluation, we will provide a recommendation for a device that will allow your child to best communicate with their world. Post evaluation, we will set up a virtual meeting in which we can discuss results, set goals, and determine a treatment plan. The evaluation also includes an hour of device programming and an in person device training with your family.
This evaluation must be ADDED to a speech evaluation. It is not a stand-alone evaluation.
DIR/Floortime Evaluation
DIRFloortime is method used to treat children with a variety of developmental challenges. Therapy that uses a DIRFloortime approach takes into account the unique nervous system that a child has and helps their caregivers and adults find ways to connect to the child and draw them into a shared world. From there the therapist and caregivers find ways to challenge the child to master six functional emotional developmental levels. This forms the foundation of all other learning and growth, and is fundamental to learning how to stay calm and regulated. Floortime can be incorporated into speech or OT services and children benefit from it throughout their therapy program.
This includes taking a 15 minute video of parent and child playing. Floortime evaluations last between 60-90 minutes.
This is evaluation that is ADDED onto either a speech or OT evaluation. It cannot stand alone, unless you are a current client.
After the evaluation, we will provide an initial plan of care and recommendations, and set up a virtual meeting in which we can discuss results, set goals, and determine a treatment plan.
Gestalt Language Processing Focused Speech-Language Evaluation
If your child learned language through long chunks of sentences, often repeats lines from movies, shows or songs and/ or imitates the intonation of language, they may be a Gestalt Language Processor (GLP).
Through collecting a language sample from home and during the evaluation, this evaluation will determine what stage of language acquisition your child is at, and how to support them in learning new words to get their needs met, ideas heard and protests made.
After the evaluation, we will provide an initial plan of care and recommendations, and set up a virtual meeting in which we can discuss results, set goals, and determine a treatment plan.
Coaching Services
Coaching services are an opportunity for us to connect without the distractions of little ones to manage at the same time. Coaching often involved video review that either you submit to us or that we take together in our sessions. It gives us a chance to reflect on our own skills and your relationship with your child. During coaching we help you focus on you and your child's strengths and figure out how to best leverage your unique relationship to support your child's growth, learning, and development.
Coaching sessions are required once a quarter for all active clients. Coaching sessions are billed at our regular hourly rate.
Covid-19 Protocols
In Person and Telehealth Services
Over The Moon is providing in person services at this time. Tele-health services are offered if need for clients living in AZ only (due to licensure issues).
COVID Precautions
We are fully vaccinated. Including CDC recommend booster shots.
When community spread is medium or low, masks are optional.
When community spread is high, masks are required.
Masks should be well fitting. If you forget one or if yours doesn't stay well on your face you will be offered one.
We ask all clients to cancel sessions when sick with COVID or COVID-like symptom of illness (fever, cough).
