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NAPA Center would like to invite you to our upcoming August Events. Please review a brief overview of the presentations and workshops available:

 

August 17th, 2010 : Free Educational Special Needs Planning Workshop for Parents or Guardians

 

Christopher B. Johnson, Esq. of  Russakow,/Ryan/Johnson  welcome you to attend what could be the single most valuable course you will attend this year. A special needs trust is created to ensure that your children receive needed governmental benefits while protecting assets that can be used to improve quality of life. The workshop will discuss the complexity of the legal and financial issues faced while planning for children with special needs. Learn how to create a “special needs trust” for your child and the key factors that must be included. Also, the workshop will discuss eligibility requirements and benefits available from financial sources and the common mistakes made in financial planning.  Click here for additional information or to register.

 

August 21st, 2010 : NAPA Center Tour and Presentation for Parents, Guardians, Educators, and Healthcare Professionals

 

NAPA Center is a specialized therapy clinic serving children and adults of all disabilities and abilities. We specialize but are not limited to, pediatric therapies with both hourly and intensive therapy programs. Please join us for a tour of our 12,000 square feet facility and a presentation of our therapies. We will also share a demonstration of the NeuroSuit application and presentation.

Click here to view English flyer. Click here to view Spanish flyer.

 

August 28th-29th, 2010 : Neurodevelopmental Movement Training Workshop for Parents, Educators and Therapists

 

NAPA Center and Sonia Story bring you a course providing instruction in movement techniques that can be used to help children overcome deficits in neuromotor development and behavioral challenges such as ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, developmental delay, autism, sensory-processing disorders, stress and overwhelm. Participants will learn skills for integrating key childhood reflexes which are the building blocks of nervous system and foundation for sensory-motor integration and learning skills, how integrating the neuro, sensory and motor systems develops abilities to get along with others, learn effectively and meet challenges with greater ease and enjoyment.  Click here for more information.

To RSVP: call 888.711.NAPA(6272) or e-mail info@napacenter.org

NAPA Spring 2010 News

Here view these kids stories

The intensive suit therapy session is just part of your child’s physical therapy regime. From a physiologic point of view, the child’s system must be consistently chal-lenged to yield positive cognitive and physical changes. Keeping this in mind, it is paramount to follow up treat-ment with an appropriate volume of home exercises de-signed by your Physical Therapist. Here are a few ideas of easy, yet powerful activities you can do with your child at home:

Antispastic Positioning- an easy one is sitting upright with knees straight, legs apart, and toes turned out

Prolonged Stretching –using the same antispastic posi-tion, simply turn the toes in to stretch the hamstrings and inner thighs

Ice/Heat- placing a hot pack or cold pack on a spastic area will help to decrease “tightness”

Rock star Joey on his 4th visit!

NAPA Center uses music as a tool! Kids love it!! Occupational Therapist, Kelli Smith, uses mu-sic for our NAPA stars to gain and maintain function during therapy sessions. Music creates a pur-pose for move-ments and gives the patients feedback for their movements. For Instance, an exercise for a child may be to... sit and maintain balance while reaching forward to gain upper extremity, core strength and endurance. But, for a child there is more motivation to do this basic movement that most of us take for granted, when there is a drum, guitar or piano involved. When each instrument is struck, it provides the child with purpose for their movements. Also, we implement music into our NAPA Center graduations! Each child becomes familiar with an instrument and we run through a song such as “[I Can See Clearly Now]” so that the children get to be part of a group experience and the parents get to enjoy and hear of their children’s success upon completion of a 3 week intensive therapy program! NAPA therapists, parents, and the children love this part of our program!

What: NAPA Center Fundraiser
Date: October 15th
Where: Delzano’s by the Sea
5 Course Wine Dinner, $5 per plate to benefit NAPA Center kids!! Come have a fabulous dinner experience and help a NAPA family!

What: NAPA Center Tour and Presentation
Date: Saturday, November 7th
Where: NAPA Center

What: NAPA Center Fundraiser
Date: November 20th & 27th
Where: Delzano’s by the Sea
Live music by local South
Bay bands, raffle and pro ceeds to NAPA Center!

We are pleased to announce that NAPA now has a satellite clinic in Irvine offering both inten-sive and hourly therapy! Please call Lynette or Jenny for additional information and bookings.

Newsletter Summer 2009

 

 

NAPA Center is now accepting insurance! We will call your insurance company and you will only be required to pay for the portion which they do not cover. We've also got some great news, we are in network with BlueCross BlueShield! To celebrate, we are accepting BlueCross BlueShield as 100% payment for Sept., Oct., and Nov.(to those who qualify). NAPA Center strives to work with families in all ways possible to help with funding and/or resources. We will accept all insurances based on individual need. We are in the process of getting in network with other insurance companies to help our families out. Please call or e-mail if you would like us to inquire for you. Also, Grants are now available! A local grant is available for those living in California and there are also grants available for those who receive coverage from insurance but need assistance to pay the balance not covered.