Unique Therapy Model

Our physical therapists provide a number of services to facilitate students’ mobility in school and in the community. Students work on gait training, wheelchair mobility, strengthening, balance, coordination and endurance to promote functional independence in order to participate in age appropriate activities.

Our preschool room features a treehouse to motivate students in a range of activities.

Students utilize the pool each week with their therapy team to work on individual IEP goals.

We maintain a wide range of adapted equipment, including wheelchairs, walkers, tricycles, chairs and standers.

Our 2,500 sf play park turns PT into a thrilling experience for students

All Horizon students may participate in hippotherapy at a nearby stable.

Our expert staff routinely helps students to make dramatic improvements in their ability to ambulate.

The cutting-edge device applies non-painful, low-level electrical currents directly to the nerves in the lower leg that control movement of the ankle and foot. The device communicates with a laptop (using Bluetooth technology) that has a program customized to each student’s walking pattern. The computer program determines the appropriate time to deliver the stimulation with every step, therefore improving the child’s gait.

A highly elastic tape is placed over target muscles to reduce pain and relax the muscles while facilitating movement.

Horizon School’s Durable Medical Equipment Department provides bi-monthly on-site clinics to assist students and their families with all issues related to their equipment, including manual or power wheelchairs, adaptive strollers, walkers, canes or crutches, standers, bathroom equipment, therapeutic chairs, protective helmets, orthoses (braces for feet) and splints (for arms or legs) and patient lifts. Our experts help families order the appropriate equipment (including dealing with insurance companies and evaluating various types of equipment) and assist with any modifications and repairs needed.

PT staff use these advanced therapeutic techniques to work with students with challenges to their central nervous systems.

OT staff utilizes our unique Vision Room to work with students with low vision.

The specialized therapeutic equipment promotes appropriate modulation, discrimination, coordination and organization of incoming sensory information received from the body and environment in order to produce adaptive and purposeful responses.

Every Horizon student has an individualized feeding plan and staff work to ensure that each child has appropriate seating, positioning, feeding equipment and food texture. Specialized equipment (such as bowls, plates, cups, utensils, etc.) is available and can be adapted to student’s individual needs.

This is an auditory intervention to support students with Sensory Processing Disorder.

We use this nationally recognized, hands-on method for teaching students to write.

Horizon School’s Durable Medical Equipment Department provides bi-monthly on-site clinics to assist students and their families with all issues related to their equipment, including manual or power wheelchairs, adaptive strollers, walkers, canes or crutches, standers, bathroom equipment, therapeutic chairs, protective helmets, orthoses (braces for feet) and splints (for arms or legs) and patient lifts. Our experts help families order the appropriate equipment (including dealing with insurance companies and evaluating various types of equipment) and assist with any modifications and repairs needed.

An exercise based program designed to address a variety of vestibular challenges.

Our speech language pathologists provide a wide range of services aimed at improving students’ cognitive, communication and linguistic skills. All speech therapists collaborate with our leading-edge Augmentative and Alternative Communication team to provide clinical services such as evaluations, consultations, treatment and documentation for a variety of disorders and delays. Individual and group treatment focus on goals established for each student’s individual needs to promote independence and achieve maximum social and communication potential.

Provides a means for students who have difficulty speaking to express wants and needs, share ideas and answer questions in class. AAC can include gestures, sign language, pictures boards and books, and voice-output devices. AAC systems range from fairly simple to technologically advanced. Our staff with specialized training and credentials in AAC and AT provide support to the classrooms, assessments for individual students on a case-by-case basis, and training for families and staff.

Is any item that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of students with disabilities. AT tools help students succeed throughout the school day by addressing adapted play/recreation, computer access, educational participation using specialized software programs and applications, alternate access methods, and mobile touch technology (including iPads), along with mobility and daily living skills. Our staff with specialized training and credentials in AAC and AT provide support to the classrooms, assessments for individual students on a case-by-case basis, and training for families and staff.

Every Horizon student has an individualized feeding plan and staff work to ensure that each child has appropriate seating, positioning, feeding equipment and food texture. Specialized equipment (such as bowls, plates, cups, utensils, etc.) are available and can be adapted to student’s individual needs.

We combine verbal labels and modeled use of visual icons.

This is a form of AAC often used in working with students on the autism spectrum.

Therapists use touch cues to a student’s jaw, tongue or lips to manually guide them through a word, phrase or sentence.

All students receive an annual screening of their hearing to identify and address any issues.