Services
To make a meaningful impact, care must be personal, intentional, and built upon strengths and connections. By getting to know each family and understanding their needs, PCDA offers a suite of services that may include individual therapies, social peer groups, and family consultation.
Floortime
When we use play-based activities to help young people interact with those most important to them, we support their long-term learning and connection.
Building Blocks
Children from birth to 3 years old are supported through direct developmental play-based intervention to address a family’s specific and stated priorities, goals, and concerns. In our in-home and community-based inclusion support program that combines our knowledge, experience, and the special familial relationship with the child.
SEDI
By building special relationships with each child, we support social-emotional development through an understanding of each child’s unique challenges and capacities.
Developmental Behavior Consultation
By strengthening family members’ closeness, engagement, and the reciprocal understanding of each other’s emotional responses, behavior needs are supported via a developmental model of intervention.
Individual
Skilled individual therapeutic services including occupational therapy, speech language pathology, music therapy, feeding and nutrition services to support families in achieving their goal areas.
Feeding and Nutrition
Around the world, families connect and share joy through food. Some children need extra support due to underlying medical, swallowing, sensory, and/or motor-based difficulties, which impacts participation in mealtimes. Feeding challenges are multi-faceted and so is the support of the full interdisciplinary team that PCDA uses to support these needs. With connection at the forefront, we create a safe and warm environment and purposeful strategies to make eating a more enjoyable, safe, and healthy experience.
Occupational Therapy
Children and families work to develop tailored strategies to support a better understanding of the young person’s individual differences—those things that make them uniquely themselves. This enhances their ability to participate in meaningful day-to-day interactions and activities, like routines at home, work, school, and in the community.
Speech and Language
Children develop a range of ways to communicate their needs and feelings to the outside world, and gain the freedom to be themselves and the agency to create a life all their own.
Music Therapy
Young people engage through music, singing, acting, and playing instruments, and have opportunities for true self expression while developing motor and sensory tools, cognition, and social emotional skills.
Group
When young people engage with each other and discover their common interests, they learn about friendship, share ideas, and solve problems together as part of their social-emotional development.
Social Skills (Individual)
When children are not quite ready for a peer group, individualized peer pairing is helpful in developing social skills. A peer group provides opportunities for children to play, practice, and master social skills with a small group of carefully selected peers with complementary interests, personalities, and social-emotional skills.
Social Skills (Group)
Friendships develop as children play together and discover their common interests. Sharing ideas and solving problems together are aspects of social-emotional development essential for peer relationships. PCDA is unique in offering a range of social skills groups for children ages 3-12, who are having challenges with play, communication, and/or social behavior with peers.
Choir
Exploring relationships within a dedicated performance space, PCDA's Creative Arts team celebrates music and togetherness.
Teen Club
Teens work together to plan and evaluate their own community activities with staff guidance. One night each week, small groups of teens brainstorm, propose ideas, persuade, listen to each other, and make decisions as a group.
Young Adults
We focus on an exploration of jobs and self-sufficiency with our young adult community members. This 24-week program gives our young adults the agency and self-determination to carve a path all their own alongside a community of peers.
Young Actors Squad
Teens explore play through words, ideas, and actions within an improv group.
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PCDA is inclusive for all families, and accessible for many. PCDA can connect your family to experts and other families navigating life with a developmental difference. In our community, you’ll know you’re not alone in your experience.