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Communicating with Sensory Santa
Our patients don’t skip a beat when it comes to visiting with our special Sensory Santa! Many of our speech patients use communication speech tablets which allow them to hear, speak, and press picture buttons to communicate with people.
Dakota was SO excited to use her tablet from tobii dynavox™ to wish Santa a Merry Christmas and share her holiday spirit. Working with her therapist, she was able to practice and prepare and come in with time and confidence.
Elite Therapy Center works to make sure each child is able to maximize their full potential in communication. Our new Temple office is located directly off I-35 and Midway Drive on S. General Bruce Dr. Our clinic faces the highway and you can see our sign out front.
If you’re interested in speech, occupational or physical therapy service, please click below to request services.
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Sensory Santa is visiting Waco and Temple this week and next! What a grand time it has been celebrating our kid’s hard work and spending some precious moments making memories for a lifetime.
Sensory Santa provides a quiet and low stimulus environment for kids to come in and spend as much time as they need to feel comfortable with the decorations and Santa’s presence. Many children like to sit and visit while others like to hop on his lap and give high fives. Each experience is unique and set up to accommodate all children’s abilities and unique needs so they can enjoy a fun experience with Santa and not worry about loud and busy distractions.
Sensory Santa visits our Waco and Temple clinics. Please see our schedule below if your child or their siblings would like a chance to visit with Santa and have their picture taken.
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Sensory Friendly Santa is coming to Elite Therapy Center in Waco and Temple!
WACO Clinic
Monday, December 9th • 1pm-3pm
Thursday, December 12th • 1pm-3pm
TEMPLE Clinic
Monday, December 16th • 1pm-3pm
Thursday, December 19th • 1pm-3pm
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Elite Therapy Center & No Limitations are hosting an Easter Egg Hunt Eggstravaganza on Good
Friday, April 19 from 1:00-2:30pm. We will have specialized Easter Egg Hunts, photos with the Easter Bunny, a petting zoo, food, fellowship and fun for special needs families.
The event will focus on children with special needs, but siblings under the age of 12 are also welcome to participate. It is important that each child planning to participate be registered to ensure enough food, games, and eggs to hunt!
We are in need of volunteers and ask they register here and plan to arrive early (on site) to help hide eggs and attend a brief training with event organizers.
If anyone would like to donate pre-filled eggs, unfilled eggs, bags of candy, or small toys to fill eggs, items may be dropped off at Elite Therapy Center,Waco Clinic, 601 West Loop 340, Waco, TX 76712.
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Valentine’s Day is a truly LOVELY day filled with bright colors, music, poems and more to stimulate our emotions and senses! Retailers fill their aisles sugary treats, cards, stuffed animals, flowers and more! This holiday rounds out the winter season with comforts and fun but can also provide many challenges for those who have sensory processing disorders, cannot eat the boundless candy, or don’t enjoy the extra stimulating hooplah!
How does one navigate your sensory-sensitive child in this sensory-heightened and sugar fueled day?
Our Elite Therapy Center team of occupational, speech and physical therapy specialists provide some wonderful ideas to make your Valentines Day a truly LOVEly and sensory-friendly experience.
CRAFTS
There are many fun ways to SPREAD the fun in valentine crafting! Our OTs prepare simple and sensory fun crafts with safe but stimulating ingredients to produce the ultimate Valentine showcase! Great for littles and bigs, you can sit with your child and watch them create and play and finish with a clean up song and daily living activity.
Puff Paint
- Puff paint made with washable paint, glue, and shaving cream. No measuring, just some of each.
- This is great for tactile play, scooping, hand strengthening, grasping, coloring. You can also add glitter. And make it into cute cards once it dries. It dries like puffy paint and is super soft to the touch when dry.
Love You to Pieces
- Cut any color into little pieces (you can also tear tissue paper into pieces if they’re too young to cut)
- Draw glue in a fun shape on the paper and glue pieces into paper
- So many options (add tissue paper, construction paper, glitter etc).
- Easy craft for kids
Love to Move
Games and exercise is a great way to show a love of movement. Whether inside or outside, work with your child to do fun exercises like easy stretching, crab walking, high knee walks, or any movement you are both able to achieve with comfort and confidence. If your child has a favorite song or loves to move around, use this opportunity to make it into a fun Valentine game!
Great songs, great moves and SUPER SMILES!
If your child is in a wheelchair or uses special equipment for walking, you can find a good space, turn up that phone and play a song to dance to! You can move their chair gently to the music, or move side to side and mirror their moves and actions. The act of enjoying a song and moving is great fun! Our Elite Therapy Center Team shares fun experience from the most recent ‘Night to Shine Prom’ with Tim Tebow Foundation and ‘A Starry Night’ dance for children with special needs.
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Elite Therapy Center & No Limitations are hosting an Easter Egg Hunt Eggstravaganza on Good Friday, April 19 from 1:00-2:30pm. We will have specialized Easter egg hunts, photos with the Easter Bunny, a petting zoo, food, fellowship and fun for special needs families.
>> REGISTRATION begins February 1, 2019
The event will focus on children with special needs, but siblings under the age of 12 are also welcome to participate. It is important that each child planning to participate be registered to ensure enough food, games, and eggs to hunt!
>> VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION begins February 1, 2019
We need volunteers and ask they register here and plan to arrive early (on site) to help hide eggs and attend a brief training with event organizers.
