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At Achieve Tampa Bay, family comes first. Parents are welcomed as a critical and respected member of every child’s therapeutic and support team. We encourage and empower parents to play a leading role in their child’s treatment. Families of children with special needs experience extraordinary stress and challenges and at Achieve those are all elements that are considered. The Achieve Child Development Center offers a full early childhood education program for children with any disability, delayed development and typical children. While our therapeutic services: Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapy help children achieve their full potential. Our Family Support programs strengthen families by helping them cope with the physical, emotional, social and financial stresses of caring for a child with special needs.
The Achieve Child Development Center offers a full early childhood education program for children with any disability or delayed developments. Every child, with or without disabilities, has an innate desire to learn. Our students learn and play side-by-side in an inclusive,“all-abilities” learning environment. Our childhood center is top of the line, NAYCE accredited and has both the NOVA literacy curriculum as well as a chosen Positive Behavior Supports program.
Our Achieve Therapy department helps children achieve their full potential. Physical Therapy works on improving physical capabilities such as:
Improving muscle skills – from crawling to jumping and enhancing functional independence and mobility.
Improving muscle control for increased balance and coordination.
Assessing the need for adaptive equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, crutches or orthotics to facilitate mobility.
Occupational Therapy addresses skills a child needs to perform their "occupations" as:
Playing, learning and self-care tasks
Motor skills and sensory processing
Attending to tasks, problem solving, hand-eye coordination, eating and self-care
Movement involving smaller muscles in the arms and hands
Processing sensory input to actively participate in home and/or school environments.
Speech Therapy helps children with speech and language skills such a as:
Oral motor skills for safe eating and drinking
Ability to form sounds for communication
Understanding and following simple or multi-step directions
Ability to communicate with or without words.
Respite Care, a component of family support services, provides relief for families caring for children with special needs.
Family Support assists parents/families with case management and linking them with appropriate services and supports. Family Support has three dedicated workers as well as a Spanish speaking worker to assist families that speak Spanish. Family Support is dedicated to the family as a whole and runs two support groups.
Parent to Parent Night – meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. Child care is provided and dinner. It is open to all families at Achieve. Sibshops – is a monthly program offered to brothers and sisters of children with a disability. This program meets on a Saturday and is available to the community siblings Between the ages of 5 and up. This program is designed to help the brother/sister of a child with a disability understand, cope and progress as they grow with a sibling with a disability.
