With the success of the April course, Angelfish Therapy will be adding another this fall – Totally Treatment: An Innovative Approach to Pediatric Aquatic Therapy.    Dates are to be determine but the timing looks to be in October.

This two day workshop is instructed by an OT and PT team and is designed for therapists working in pediatric aquatics.  You will learn effective techniques by using a hands on approach with Angelfish Therapy clientèle.

It will be held on Oct 1^st and 2^nd (Fri and Sat) at the Crown Plaza Hotel at 66 Hale Ave. in White Plains, NY

Remember our First Timer back in January? Well, here she is 3 months later and having a blast interacting with other children and working with our therapist on motor skills.

See more of her and other videos here.

We are thrilled that St. Paul’s Church in Darien is enabling us to bring such an innovative program to this community.

We will be having 3 weeks of fun-filled movement activities that your kids will love. Our program is designed to improve weak brain connections by using neuroplasticity and the brains innate ability to re-wire itself based on intensive stimulation.

We will incorporate exercises from various educational training including: Superbrain Yoga, Therapeeds, Ready Bodies Ready minds, INPP, Playproject, Alert Program for self-regulation, Skillastic Soccer & Basketball and many more.

Things you need to know:

• Payment of $2400 is due in full by July 1st. You can pay Ailene or Cindy at the pool if that is convenient. Otherwise, payment is due upon receipt of the invoice. In addition, a weekly invoice will be e-mailed to you reflecting PT and OT group therapy hours. It will be broken down as follows : One hour of OT and one hour of PT @ 75/hour. We will be using the group CPT code of 97150. This weekly invoice for $750 will state paid in full and come via e-mail at the end of each week from billing@angelfishtherapy.com. You can self submit your bill to your flex spending or your insurance if appropriate.
• Your registration, release and health form will also come via e-mail for you to download and send back.
• We will be conducting a research project involving a quick video tape of 5 activities on day one and the same activities on day 15. We will also be performing a quick screening of reflexes, sensory motor skills and a cognitive task. The data will be compiled, ananlyzed, and hopefully published.

We are gearing up for Camp Mighty Mind.  In order to objectively notice areas of improvement of your child, please take note of the following prior to the first day of camp:

• Ability to follow multi-step directions without reminders
• Awareness of body movements: uncoordinated, bumping into things or falling
• Ability to talk while performing a motor skill like jumping and counting
• Automatically cross their hand passed the middle of body during daily tasks
• Ability to start and stop their body in an efficient manner
• Observe your child running, skipping, dancing and galloping using both sides of their body.
• Ability to draw a person with all body parts, write and draw a picture
• Lastly, does your child say “what” frequently when you talk to him

Please jot down a few notes about the above finding prior to coming to camp and review them after camp and again in September to compare.

We will invite all parents for a night of socializing, sharing and light refreshments in early October.

To sign up and get more information click here.

Camp Angelfish is an overnight camp for 3 different types of children. We rent the beautiful facilities on Lake Winnepesaukee and provide traditional camp experiences under the guidance of Co-directors who are occupational and physical therapists.

Maybe not full action shots, but we wanted to show different styles of techniques and our kids.  Click the photos to view larger images.

Angelfish Therapy is proud to present Camp Mighty Mind, a 3 week summer camp that involves movement, music and play.  It is brought to you by Ailene and Cindy and their learning from a “Ready Bodies Ready Minds” seminar.

Did you know you can register your children into our two summer camps (Camp Mighty Minds and Camp Angelfish), sign up for therapist training courses (Totally Treatment), and order training DVD’s?

Did you also know you can view our videos, read testimonials and find answers to your questions?

I reached out to Angelfish this past January 2010 to see how their aquatic programs could benefit my daughter Samantha. Sam has special needs and will be six in March. She has been in two other local swim programs (special needs focus) with little success. While she loves the water, in the pool she would just cling to my neck.

During her first therapy session her therapist Cindy explained to me (in an easy to understand way) what was going on with Sam in the water and explained the strategies she was using for Sam to gain a sense of her awareness in the water. While Sam was floating in the water with a bubble and weights on her ankles, she was truly finding her legs in the water. By

the end of her second therapy session, Sam swam on her own with nothing on but flippers! Amazing!
I highly recommend Cindy and Angelfish Therapy to all those who are undecided about what type of aquatic program your child needs. I know that we would have saved a lot of time and money if we started with Angelfish Therapy from the start.

- Chris C

We are focusing this month on progressions with our therapist one on one.  Listed below are a few different techniques we use to help with this progressions.

This video demonstrates one on one righting reactions. You will see how the child will work on righting his trunk and work to have reciprocal motion in his leg kicks. All the while responding to his balance.

Working one on one with a child to achieve arm extensions using a flotation device.

Continued work on balancing and extensions in a one on one envrionment.