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All children are different and develop at their own pace, but when you feel like you’ve tried everything to encourage your child’s growth and don’t know what else to do, it may be time for a little extra help. That’s where we come in.
We are currently available for in-clinic sessions, in-home sessions, community based sessions or via Telehealth on Zoom.
We bill insurance (benefit check included) or offer private pay rates. Shine is currently in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO and CAT United for speech and feeding. Other insurances are billed as out-of-network. We are unable to bill HMO plans. FSA and HSA cards accepted.
Developmental Therapy – $60 per session
Speech Therapy – $90 per session
Physical Therapy – $110 per session
Occupational Therapy – $100 per session
Feeding Therapy/Nutrition – $100 per session
PLAY Project Pricing: $400/month (details here under PLAY Project)
We offer 2 types of screening options at Shine; you choose the one that works best for you!
Time Required: 20-30 minutes
Cost: $25 due at the time of sign up in order to hold your chosen time.
1.) Online Parent Consultation through Zoom or via phone call:
2.) In person screening at our clinic in Peoria:
What is Pediatric Speech-Language Therapy?
Speech-Language therapy is provided by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) who is trained in evaluation and treatment for a wide range of speech and language delays and deficits. Speech-language therapy works to improve a child’s ability to understand language and/or to express daily wants, needs and feelings. Areas that can be addressed in speech-language therapy include:
Why Might My Child Need Speech-Language Therapy?
Speech-Language Pathologists evaluate and treat a number of different language comprehension, language expression and speech production issues which can be present alone or in conjunction with a specific diagnosis. However, because we see young children at Shine, they often have no medical diagnosis. Some Common Diagnoses include:
Language comprehension refers to a child’s ability to understand verbal (or written) language. Delays or deficits in language comprehension could interfere with a child’s ability to follow directions, make choices, answer questions, and learn new skills.
Language expression refers to a child’s ability to express their wants, needs and feelings. There are a number of different ways to express oneself including verbally, gesturally, or using sign language or another Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) method, (eg. picture exchange or pointing, speech generating device).
Speech production refers to a child’s ability to produce clear, understandable words as a means of language expression. Speech production deficits can include: articulation deficits (difficulty producing specific speech sounds), phonological deficits (difficulty consistently following rules of speech production by making predictable errors in speech patterns), apraxia of speech (difficulty programming the motor sequences to produce speech), and dysarthria (underlying weakness in the muscles that produce speech).
Social/pragmatic language refers to how we use language and other forms of communication to interact with other people. Children with challenges in this area sometimes have difficulty understanding nonverbal cues such as body language and facial expressions, interpreting nonliteral uses of language (like sarcasm or slang), and interacting with their peers. The goals addressed in social/pragmatic language therapy are not intended to force kids into looking or acting exactly like their peers; rather, the goals are to help kids understand other people’s communication as well as how their own communication can help them meet their personal goals for interacting with peers, their families, and others.
How To Get Started/Schedule an Appointment
Children who are experiencing any of these signs or symptoms may benefit from a speech therapy evaluation. Please speak with your pediatrician about your concerns. You may also reach out using the ‘contact us’ link.
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Developmental therapy is offered in the child’s natural environment to improve skills in any area of development, particularly play skills, self help skills, interacting with others and improving attention span.
What is Pediatric Feeding Therapy? Feeding therapists are speech-language pathologists who are trained to diagnose and manage feeding and swallowing disorders. Our highly trained feeding therapists provide specialized feeding intervention for a wide range of feeding and swallowing challenges. In feeding therapy, the therapist works with the family to determine the feeding and swallowing related challenges and creates goals with the family that supports both the child and the family in their feeding journey.
Feeding difficulties are often seen in 25% of typically developing children and up to 80% of children with developmental delays.
Your child may have been referred for an oral motor/feeding evaluation secondary to concerns that your child is refusing to eat or has difficulty chewing or swallowing. Frequent concerns that warrant a feeding evaluation are as follows:
During the feeding evaluation, Shine feeding specialists will take a thorough medical and feeding history. Your child will further be observed with a feeding in order to fully assess your child’s oral musculature and feeding skills during a meal. Our experienced feeding team looks at the whole child during the evaluation in order to fully address the feeding concerns. Following the feeding evaluation, feeding therapy may be recommended. Shine therapists are experienced with a range of ages and feeding concerns including infant feedings, transitioning children to an age appropriate diet level, as well as addressing picky feeding. Our feeding team specialists work when necessary with other providers in the area, including our on staff registered dietitian, occupational therapist, physical therapist, pediatric gastroenterologists and a wide range of medical specialists following the evaluation to help families and their children who are struggling to have successful mealtimes.
Children who are experiencing any of these signs or symptoms may benefit from a feeding therapy evaluation. Please speak with your pediatrician about your concerns. You may also reach out using the ‘contact us’ link.
Here at Shine Therapy we offer specialized pediatric nutrition consultations under our feeding team with our registered dietitian and licensed dietitian nutritionist. Our lead dietitian at Shine therapy has been working specifically in pediatrics since 2012. Our dietitian uses a multidisciplinary approach with other therapists and medical professionals to give your child the best outcome for their specific needs.
During a nutrition assessment a detailed and child specific nutrition history is taken, including: developmental history, medical history, weight and length history, dietary intake history and specific five food group intake history. The assessment will address the nutrition concerns of the family and provide recommendations for next steps. These nutrition concerns include, but are not limited to:
Positive nutrition guidance with a dietitian can be transformative for a child’s foundational success in many avenues of life. Services are available both via telehealth and in – person at our Shine Therapy Clinic.
How To Get Started/Schedule an Appointment
Children who are experiencing any of these signs or symptoms may benefit from a nutrition therapy evaluation. Please speak with your pediatrician about your concerns. You can reach out to us directly using the ‘Contact Us’ link.
Occupational Therapy (OT) is a health profession that provides skilled treatment to help individuals achieve and maintain independence in all aspects of their lives. The primary goal of OT is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Pediatric OT focuses on the child’s independence in their occupations, such as daily living skills, play exploration and participation, education, leisure, social participation, and sleep.
Fine motor skills: are the ability to make movements using the small muscles in our hands and wrists. These may include:
Visual motor skills: are essential to coordinated and efficient use of the hands and eyes. Visual Motor Skills enable an individual to process information around them including the ability to observe and recognize visual information about forms, shapes, figures, and objects. These may include:
Sensory processing skills: Children with sensory processing difficulty cannot properly process sensory stimulation from the outside world. The bodies major sensory systems include the following: proprioceptive (body position) input, vestibular (movement) input, auditory (hearing) input, visual (sight) input, tactile (touch) input, gustatory (taste) input. Signs and symptoms of sensory regulation difficulties vary based on the age of the child and the child’s unique sensory response, but may include:
How To Get Started/Schedule an Appointment
Children who are experiencing any of these signs or symptoms may benefit from an occupational therapy evaluation. Please speak with your pediatrician about your concerns and contact us at Shine Therapy Services to learn more information.
A caregiver-child partnered approach that fosters natural connections that lead to effective communication. You will learn how to be your child’s language facilitator! Class meets once/week for 8 weeks, 60-minute sessions, from March 29- May 19. One caregiver per child allowed due to space constraints.
COST: $25/week = $200 for session. Payment below holds your spot in the group.
GROUP MEETS: Tuesdays at 4:45PM or Thursdays at 9 AM
Is your child’s speech difficult to understand? Would you like them to get some extra speech sound practice this summer, while socializing with their peers? Join us for an 8 week session for extra practice. Class meets once/week for 45 minutes.
COST: $30/week = $240. Payment below holds your spot in the group.
GROUP MEETS: Ages 3-4 Wednesdays at 10:30am.
Ages 4-5 Wednesdays at 4:30 PM
What does a typical month of PLAY Project look like?
3 hours of direct, in-person therapy where your PLAY project consultant will model appropriately methods, techniques and activities that will be effective for where your child is at developmentally. (These hours are generally split up into 2 visits per month)
Video taping snippets of sessions for your PLAY project consultant to further analyze, so effective changes in play can be recommended
Time spent together during sessions or virtually educating you as the caregiver(s) on the PLAY project approach to understand individualized techniques, strategies, and where to focus your play time, as well as understanding your child’s progress.
Development of an individualized PLAY plan to serve as a guide for you when playing with your child.
COST: $400/month with a 6 month commitment
For more information on The PLAY Project, see the website information here:
Autism Treatment – Information About The PLAY Project | The PLAY Project
This unique program is a mixture of parent coaching and direct service!
This program runs for 8 weeks teaching you, the caregiver, the basics of engaging a hard-to-engage child. The goal of this program is to analyze the foundational skills necessary for a child to engage. This includes regulation needs, attention skills and appropriate engagement activities to play at the right developmental level for your child.
This is a great option for families not fully ready to commit to PLAY project, but who want guidance on where to focus with their child to help them progress with their developmental play skills!
COST: $500 for the program
If you are considering PLAY Project for your child, but aren’t quite sure…start with a PLAY Project Evaluation. Contact Us to schedule!
Pediatric Physical Therapy is provided by a licensed Physical Therapist who is trained to provide skilled treatment to help kids improve their flexibility, strength, movement patterns, balance and coordination. The primary goal of PT is to help children move their bodies how and when they want to the best of their abilities so that they can more independently access and explore their environment.
Physical Therapists are experts in movement and gross motor development. Gross motor skills are those which require whole body movement and which involve the large (core stabilizing) muscles of the body to perform everyday functions, such as sitting upright, standing, walking, running and jumping. They also include eye-hand coordination skills such as ball skills (throwing, catching, kicking) as well as riding a bike or a scooter and swimming. Physical therapists work with children with a wide variety of diagnoses including, but not limited to:
Children who are experiencing any of these signs or symptoms may benefit from a physical therapy evaluation. Please speak with your pediatrician about your concerns. You may also reach out using the ‘contact us’ link or emailing us ([email protected]) to make a referral.
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A caregiver-child partnered approach that fosters natural connections that lead to effective communication. You will learn how to be your child’s main language facilitator! Class meets once/week for 8 weeks, 60-minute sessions, March 29- May 19. One caregiver per child is allowed at this time due to space constraints.
COST: $25/week = $200 for session. Payment below holds your spot in the group. A $25 cleaning/registration fee applies.
GROUP MEETS: Tuesdays at 4:45 PM; Thursdays at 9:00 AM
This group is led by an experienced Early Intervention Speech-Language Pathologist!
Class is targeted to children 16-36 months of age, accompanied by their caregiver.
Does any of this sound familiar?
What to expect:
Join us to learn how to best support your child’s communication development!
Is your child’s speech difficult to understand? Would you like them to get some extra speech sound practice while socializing with their peers? Join us for an 8 week session for extra practice. Class meets once/week for 45 minutes.
COST: $30 per week = $240/session. Payment below holds your spot in the group.
GROUP MEETS: Next session starts January 12 and runs until March 2.
Wednesdays at 4:30 PM
What to expect:
Join us to improve the clarity of your child’s speech!
Children with sensory processing differences have difficulty with regulation, which sometimes makes it difficult for them to interact with the world around them. Our Sensory Explorers group targets regulation in order to build engagement! This group is led by pediatric occupational therapist Mackenzie Baldock and developmental therapist/PLAY Project Consultant Brenna Thompson, both of whom specialize in using developmentally appropriate strategies to support children so they can learn new skills. Group meets once/week for 60 minutes.
Wondering if this class is appropriate for your child? Some characteristics of kids who benefit: easily frustrated with play, repetitive play, difficulty sitting/keeping still to engage in play, refuses to allow others to engage in play, unable to be messy, overly busy, quickly overwhelmed in a busy environment, picky eater, difficulty tolerating grooming/dressing/diapering routines, struggles with transitions/following a group plan/routine.
Goals of the group include:
Group begins with a 30 minute Open House on Tuesday October 4 for your child & caregiver/family to attend. This provides an opportunity to meet the therapists, acclimate your child to the space and provide some initial information about your child’s responses to a variety of sensory activities. 30 minute sessions will be offered from 12:30-4:30 on 10/4 with sign up sent with registration.
GROUP MEETS for 6 weeks October 11-November 15: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 OR Tuesdays 3:30-4:30. ***We ask that families who are able remain flexible on the time slot so we can effectively pair your child with others that they will gain the maximum benefit from for social interactions!** Caregivers are encouraged to stay to support their child and learn helpful strategies, however other options will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Caregiver education is a key component of this program. Make-up date in case of class cancellation: 11/22/22
Group ends with a 15-30 minute Zoom wrap up session with caregiver(s) on November 29th. Every participant will receive a short, personalized Session Summary report complete with suggestions/recommendations for helpful sensory supports in the child’s home/classroom/community.