Pediatric Therapy · Bloomington-Normal, IL
Pediatric therapy for everyday needs and complex conditions.
The Therapy Collaborative provides pediatric occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, feeding therapy, and advanced rehabilitation support for infants, children, teens, and young adults in Bloomington-Normal.
Every child is different, and every family arrives with different questions. We listen first, evaluate carefully, and build a plan that fits your child — and your life.
Who this is for
Every child is different, and every family arrives with different questions. Some parents come to us because their toddler isn't talking yet, or eats only a handful of foods. Others want help with handwriting, balance, sensory overwhelm, or attention. We listen first, evaluate carefully, and build a plan that fits your child — and your life.
Our pediatric team is part of a larger lifespan practice serving Bloomington, Normal, and Central Illinois — so your child gets specialty-level care close to home.
What We Offer
Our pediatric services
Sensory processing, fine motor, handwriting, coordination, daily living skills, feeding participation, and complex pediatric rehab.
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Speech sounds, language development, AAC, social communication, apraxia, fluency, and functional communication for children and teens.
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Picky eating, food refusal, ARFID, texture progression, oral motor challenges, tube feeding support, and mealtime participation.
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Who we help
Our pediatric team is part of a larger lifespan therapy practice serving Bloomington, Normal, and Central Illinois — which means your child gets the depth of a specialty clinic with the warmth of a neighborhood one.
Early support for feeding, motor milestones, communication, and sensory regulation. We work alongside parents and pediatricians during the years when small steps matter most.
Help with speech sounds, language, fine and gross motor coordination, mealtime, and the social and self-regulation skills that make preschool and kindergarten go well.
Support for handwriting, focus, coordination, reading and language, social skills, and confidence at school. Often coordinated with teachers and IEP/504 teams when families want.
Therapy that respects the age — executive function, social communication, motor coordination, and independence skills for school, sports, work, and life after high school.
Some adults are best served by the same kind of therapy our pediatric team provides — coordination, sensory regulation, communication, AAC, executive function, and daily living skills.
Whether your child has a recent diagnosis or you're still gathering answers, we'll meet you where you are and help you decide what kind of therapy actually fits the goals you have for your family.
If standard weekly therapy hasn't created the change you hoped for, we can take a fresh look — a different approach, different intensity, or a deeper evaluation of what's getting in the way.
What We Treat
What we help with
We support children and teens across communication, motor and sensory development, feeding, behavior and social-emotional skills, and movement difficulties. If you don't see your child's exact concern, contact us — we evaluate the whole picture, not a label.
- Late talking & speech delays
- Unclear speech / articulation
- Childhood apraxia of speech
- Receptive & expressive language
- Stuttering & fluency
- Social communication
- AAC & complex communication
We work with autistic children, teens, and young adults across communication styles — including AAC users. Our therapy is individualized and respectful. We meet your child where they are, then work toward goals that show up in everyday life.
- Therapy support for autistic children, teens & young adults
- AAC for nonspeaking & minimally speaking communicators
- Social communication & connection
- Sensory regulation & accommodations
- Self-advocacy & daily-living skills
- Transitions, routines & flexibility
- Goal-directed therapy with measured, real-world progress
- Sensory processing
- Handwriting & fine motor
- Coordination & gross motor
- Self-care & independence
- Attention, focus & self-regulation
- Visual motor & visual perception
When behavior is making everyday life harder — meltdowns, big emotions, impulsivity, focus, or behaviors that look like avoidance — we look for the underlying skills that need support. We treat behavior as communication and work on the "why" beneath what families are seeing.
- Self-regulation & emotional regulation
- Meltdowns, shutdowns & big emotions
- Behavior tied to sensory dysregulation
- Behavior tied to communication challenges
- Executive function & attention
- Frustration tolerance & flexibility
- Impulsivity & body awareness
- Picky eating / extremely limited diet
- Trouble chewing or swallowing
- Bottle, breastfeeding & transitions
- Mealtime stress & food refusal
Some children come to us because something about how their body moves doesn't fit the usual diagnostic boxes — clumsiness that hasn't improved, balance or gait changes, motor planning difficulty, or new movement symptoms after an illness or injury.
- DCD / developmental coordination disorder / dyspraxia
- Persistent clumsiness or motor delay
- Balance, gait & postural concerns
- Motor planning difficulties
- Functional neurological symptoms in children (pediatric FND)
- Movement symptoms that started after illness, concussion, or injury
- Movement difficulties that haven't responded to other therapy
Beyond Weekly Therapy
When your child needs more than standard therapy
Some children need more than what a weekly session can offer. Others have needs that haven't fit neatly into a standard therapy model. And some families come to us after therapy elsewhere didn't create the progress they hoped for. We have options for all three.
High-frequency individualized therapy programs for children with complex needs, time-sensitive goals, or cases that have not responded to standard weekly care. Intensive programs can accelerate progress in a focused period of time.
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Specialty rehabilitation for children and teens with FND, chronic pain, fatigue, neurologic concerns, DCD, and complex cases that have not improved with standard care. We evaluate carefully and build approaches that standard therapy models often miss.
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Whether your child needs support with everyday skills, has a complex diagnosis, or hasn't made the progress you hoped for elsewhere — we can help you figure out the right starting point.