Meeting Milestones

Children's Therapies, LLC

About

Meeting Milestones Children's Therapies provides the most current, evidenced based Occupational Therapy services to infants, toddlers and young children. Customized, individualized treatment plans are developed to meet each child's specific needs. Children are challenged through meaningful, play-based strategies to achieve new milestones.

Our Mission

To help children reach their full potential and navigate the world around them with confidence.

Services

Occupational Therapy

Children's skills are assessed and treatment plans are development to meet each child where they are at, while challenging them to progress through a bottom up approach. Play with a variety of sensory motor equipment is at the essence of every task. Family involvement is encouraged for best carryover.

Feeding Therapy

Assessment is made of the child's oral motor skill including lips, tongue and jaw, as well as the child's overall sensory processing and its impact on food textures and tastes.

Children are encouraged to explore food through play. Food offerings are selected to target sensory and oral motor development. Children learn the developmental steps to mealtime in a non threatening way.

Areas of Specialty and Completed Continued Course Work

Sensory Processing Disorder
- Interoception
- Auditory Defensiveness
- Vestibular Processing
- Tactile Defensiveness

Feeding Therapy
- ARFID
- Pediatric Feeding Disorder
- Transitioning Off Supplemental Tube Feedings

Anxiety
ADHD
Executive Functioning
Regulation
Primitive Reflex Integration
Toe Walking
Torticollis
Fine Motor Coordination/ Handwriting
Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills

Specific Programs and Modalities Offered

SOS Feeding

The SOS approach to feeding stands for Sequential-Oral-Sensory. It uses developmental progression of skills to build up children's tolerance with a variety of foods.

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Rhythmic Movement Training

Rhythmic Movement Training is a movement based, primitive reflex integration program, which uses exercises to improve a child's sensory, motor and emotional development.

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Astronaut Training

Astronaut Training is a therapeutic protocol designed to improve vestibular processing, while also working on visual tracking and overall sensory processing and movement control.

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Integrated Listening Systems

ILS is a multi-sensory listening program using music and movement to support brain integration and skill-building.

Music is delivered via air and bone conduction headphones, providing auditory input to the brain and sensory input to the body.

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Handwriting Without Tears

HWT is a multi-sensory approach to handwriting. Following a developmental sequence, fine motor and visual motor skills are practiced through fun and interactive activities.

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Deep Pressure Proprioceptive Technique

DPPT is a brushing technique using tactile and proprioceptive (deep pressure input) to help the brain organize sensory input.

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Bal-A-Vis-X

Bal-A-Vis-X uses beanbags and balls exercises to address visual tracking, auditory processing, impulsivity, and balance.

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Quickshifts

A sound program that can easily be implemented into sensory diets to use throughout the day to support many different areas including focus, relaxation and spatial awareness.

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Kinesiology Tape

Taping technique to improve children's posture, gross and fine motor skills, oral motor skills and can be used to decrease pain and scarring.

Therapists

Jacquie Pierro, MS, OTR/L

Owner, Occupational Therapist, Feeding Specialist

Jacquie graduated from Quinnipiac University with a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy in 2012. She has dedicated her career to pediatrics.

Jacquie finds great joy in collaborating with families to support their goals. She chose OT, and specifically pediatrics, because she loves helping children discover what motivates them, and to empower them to meet new milestones.

When Jacquie is not at the clinic, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two young children.

Stephanie Bengali, MS, OTR/L

Occupational Therapist,

Feeding Specialist

Stephanie is a licensed and registered Occupational Therapist who received her master’s degree from Boston University in 2012.

She began her clinical experience working with adults with acquired brain injuries and spinal cord injuries at an inpatient rehabilitation center. While Stephanie immensely enjoyed her work with this population, she decided to transition her career back to her original passion of working with children at an outpatient pediatric clinic in early 2018. Stephanie took a brief absence from her career to raise her own two children; however, her love for Occupational Therapy persisted. She continued to take courses to advance her clinical knowledge and skills in the areas of pediatric feeding therapy, sensory integration therapy, childhood and infant development, and interoception techniques.

In her free time, Stephanie enjoys spending her time with her husband and daughters, traveling, and hiking with her very energetic dog!

Meeting Milestones Children's Therapies currently accepts Blue Cross Blue Shield and Mass General Brigham Health insurance plans.

We can provide documentation to families who wish to seek out-of-network reimbursement.

Private pay options are also available.

Contact Us

Please reach out for a consult or to schedule an appointment.

197 High Street, Suite 105 Ipswich, MA 01938

info@meetingmilestones.net

(978) 312- 7412

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Opening Hours

Mon - Fri

Saturday

Sunday

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

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