Providing high quality, physical, occupational, and speech therapies, and AT Services.
Therapies & Technology
P.G. Chambers School staff provides high quality physical, occupational, and speech therapy in all of our school programs.
All therapists at P.G. Chambers School are licensed professionals with advanced education and experience with children from birth through twenty-one. They also work closely with our Assistive Technology Program. Click here to learn more about the P.G. Chambers Assistive Technology Program.
These critical therapies are part of a continuum of related services designed to help the individual student access and make progress in the education curriculum in their IEP, and to participate in extracurricular and other nonacademic activities.
We are also an Approved Clinic and Agency of the NJ Department of Education for the provision of private consultative services and contract therapy services in other public and private schools, including our Early Intervention Program.
Therapies at P.G. Chambers School are fully-integrated into the student’s day. Each classroom operates with a team that includes a physical, occupational, and speech therapist as well as an educator and teaching assistants.
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
We believe every student’s primary occupation is to learn and develop the skills needed for success in both school and everyday life. Our Occupational Therapy Department is committed to supporting students in achieving greater independence, confidence, and participation in all aspects of their lives.
Speech and Language Therapy
Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology (AT) is embedded in our approach to student success. Our comprehensive AT Program has three components, offering services to children and their families in each P.G. Chambers School program and in the community. Services include everyday use of AT, specialty Clinics, and AT/ Augmentative Assistive Communication (AAC) Evaluations.
Therapeutic Mealtime
P.G. Chambers therapists also work on increasing students’ oral motor and feeding skills to maximize each child’s potential during mealtimes for independence, socialization, nutrition and safety. Each student has an individualized mealtime plan developed by his/her treating Speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist and physical therapist.
Mealtime plans address seating/positioning, mealtime equipment, diet texture and strategies to promote independence. Students are provided with specialized mealtime equipment including cups, utensils and bowls/plates. All mealtime partners are trained by an SLP or Occupational Therapist (OT) to implement the individualized mealtime plan prior to them supporting a student during mealtime to ensure safety and maximize independence. Opportunities to socialize with peers or adults are available when appropriate.
SLPs and OTs provide interventions outside of mealtime to advance skills including oral motor skills and expanding food repertoires. These skills can be targeted through direct treatment sessions or group activities. For students who have a limited food repertoire food play groups are offered based on aspects of Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) and advanced training in oral motor and pediatric feeding techniques program that focuses on exploration of different foods through play and positive experiences.
