My daughter Dawn attended Jump & Schout for a little over 4 years. She had Speech, Occupational, and Physical Therapy services authorized through EasterSeals via Kaiser. All of which were services at J&S at one point.
Nicole was Dawn's first physical therapist here, and did great with Dawn/ helped her achieve important benchmarks she needed at the time. She was patient and thorough with her structure with her and this helped her reach her goals quickly.
Speech, well, initially my experience with Alicia (2019) and Speech Supervisor, Katie, was really great. Alicia had creative and productive ways of keeping Dawn's attention and interest and knew how to work with behaviors that arose (my daughter is on the autism spectrum, ADHD, and SPD)
Katie worked closely with me on goals I wanted for my daughter and listened to the reasons why, she allowed me to be a part of what was being addressed.
However, shortly after Alicia, and Katie left... my daughter's speech therapies at J&S started becoming frustrating, disappointing, and felt there was no direct communication with me in regards to reports sent to ES / Kaiser for authorization, let alone that behaviors were a concern they would bring up to ES and therefore Kaiser, so my daughter's services became compromised.
I was not happy about this, especially because I am very involved in her development. I also did not like the speech methods they used, that weren't adaptable to Dawn's interest. Eventually I had to advocate to sustain my daughter's speech services through easterseals, and decided I would search for a facility that would allow me to be involved in her sessions, goals, assessments and would listen to my input.
It turns out, she had Hyperlexia and was a Gestalt Language Learner-- she blossomed in her speech at another facility. But we had to leave J&S.
Occupational therapy was the best of our experience here though.
Angela has always been a fantastic occupational therapist. Very much 'for the child' type of therapist, she's dedicated to learning about the child and how to work with them, patient, great attitude, light hearted and just all around focused on the child's best interest. My daughter showed significant progress in fine motor skills, self help/ adaptive skills, and regulation.
Angela was great about stricture with her too!
Jarae was another therapist that did fantastic with Dawn, and cared to hear about my input on where Dawn was in her self help- adaptive skills, she created goals that were not only appropriate for Dawn but considerate of my information to her.
Stacey and the last receptionist / admin at J&S were also great. Very personable , friendly, and make you feel like family.
Overall-- I'd recommend giving J&S a try if you can get in.
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