A place to start for families with children with special needs
Please contact us and let us know if you have a site or program that could benefit the rest of our community and children and we will gladly add it here.

Intensive Therapy Programs
Currently Offered at The Therapy Place:

Bridges at The Therapy Place

TheraSuit® Method

Anat Baniel Method (ABM) - The Anat Banel a movement-based therapy designed to communicate with the brain to help it regain its ability to create new neural patterns and pathways, offered bi-monthly at The Therapy Place. For more information or to contact ABM practitioner, John Robson, please visit http://www.honestevolution.com/children.

Special thank you to the following providers for donating therapy equipment and supplies to The Therapy Place!

Rifton Equipment: Makers of adaptive equipment for people with disabilities

ARK Therapeutic: Feeding and oral motor therapy tools
(By using the above stated link, 15% of the proceeds go directly to The Therapy Place.)

Alternative Education Centers

The BarClay School

Agency Support and Resources:

Medicaid/TEFRA (SC Department of Health & Human Services):
Get Application for Medicaid for Children with Special Needs (not based on parent income, but rather the child's diagnosis and special needs)

Babynet: SC's Zero to Three Early Early Intervention Services

SC Department of Education's Office of Exceptional Children -
Ensuring a Free and Appropriate Public Education

SC Department of Disabilities & Special Needs (DDSN)

Autism Institute of SC: Providing Autism Interventions and Services

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic

Carolina Autism Resource & Evaluation Center (SC DDSN)

TEAM THERAPY - Columbia center offering family-centered, team approach to pediatric therapy services

Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Inc. - an organization who is helping families fight against the Medicaid cap for therapies and other issues of concern.

Emotional Support and Advocacy:

SC Autism Society: referral, service coordination & conferences

PRO Parents: Parents Reaching Out to Parents - information & training

Family Connection of SC: Parent-to-parent support; support groups

Notable Accomplishments

Recreation:

The Therapy Place Hoopers in Motion - An informal hula hooping social/play group for children and teens with special needs and their friends and family. (To view this page, you must be logged into facebook.)

SC Developmental Disabilities Council - for summer programs

Challenge Adventures: Outdoor Experiences for children with special needs

DreamRiders: Therapeutic Horseback Riding in Lexington, SC

Kindermusik

Equipment:

Dynamic Wheelchairs

South Carolina Assistive Technology Program

Special Beds: "ComfyLiftBed"

SleepSafe Bed - As appeared in Extreme Home Makeover in March of 2008

Pocket Full of Therapy

Sammons Preston: Rehab Equipment & Supplies

TherAdapt: Innovative Therapy Equipment

Therapy Shoppe