Therapies

Floortime Therapy

Floortime therapy is the focus of all occupational therapy and speech therapy sessions. Floortime is child-led and play based. Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationships (DIR) is the philosophy behind Floortime therapy. Our therapists will build a trusting relationship with your child. We carefully acknowledge the individual differences in every individual and work from the bottom-up to build the foundation of each Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDCs) in your child’s profile. It may look like it’s just play, but our therapists are carefully considering every step in each session. 

Floortime sessions can be offered in both English and Spanish. 

Skills we support in EVERY therapeutic session at Over the Moon: 

  • Engaging in a meaningful relationship

  • Increasing circles of communication (both verbal and non-verbal)

  • Mirroring and demonstrating emotions through our affect

  • Following a child’s idea 

  • Share joy

  • Support constrictions in a child’s FEDCs

  • Stretch interactions 

  • Support co-regulation 

  • Develop interest in a shared world 

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy sessions run for 50 minutes each session. In occupational therapy sessions a Occupational Therapist (OT) or a certified occupational therapy assistant (COTA) will support the client with goals agreed by the family and occupational therapist in their care plan. 

Occupational Therapy sessions are available in both English and Spanish. 

Skills we support in occupational therapy sessions: 

  • Fine motor skills

  • Gross motor skills

  • Co-regulation (with the caregiver)

  • Self regulation skills

  • Body awareness

  • Handwriting

Sensory Integration


Occupational Therapy- Sensory Integration runs 50 minutes. OT-SI is both a neurological process and frame of reference that occupational therapists use when treating children. It seeks to help children integrate their nervous system more efficiently so that they can learn and participate more effectively. When working in this frame of reference, a therapist help provide the child with the input their nervous system needs in order to have an “adaptive response” so they are successful in whatever they were trying to accomplish! 

Sensory Integration Therapy is available in both English and Spanish. 

Skills we support in occupational therapy sessions: 

  • Strategies to develop sensory awareness 

  • Postural control

  • Motor planning

  • Behavioral responses to sensory input so children can engage in everyday activities

  • Child and parent strategies and awareness in how sensory needs impact a child’s individual social and emotional needs

Speech Therapy

Speech therapy is 50 minutes long. Our speech pathologist  is able to support a variety of different needs including: receptive and expressive language delays, attention and interaction, auditory processing, articulation, specific speech disorders and early literacy skills. 

We are confident in our ability to support Gestalt Language Processors through the Natural Language Acquisition Framework, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, and Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) all while using the DIR Floortime framework.

Through play and engagement your child will develop their communication skills with a care plan that is tailored to meet their individual needs. 

Our Speech Pathologist is only able to offer speech therapy in English at this time. 

Skills we support in Speech Therapy sessions: 

  • Increasing attention and awareness 

  • Receptive skills (understanding)

  • Expressive skills 

  • AAC instruction 

  • Social communication

  • Auditory processing skills

  • Articulation 

  • Early literacy skills