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Our Mission:
To guarantee the person dignity of people with developmental disabilities and to promote their personal achievements based on their dreams, desires, and abilities.

SPICE provides pediatric therapy services for families with children from birth through age twelve, who have developmental disabilities or delays or who are at risk for delay due to environmental or medical concerns.

SPICE provides wide variety of Therapy Services to meet the needs of you and your child. Services are based on your child's individual needs and are provided in a fun learning rich environment that enables your child to reach their full potential. Services are provided in individual and group sessions based on your child's needs.
SPICE therapists receive extensive training in pediatrics and specialize in working with children birth to age twelve.

All SPICE therapists maintain State of Illinois Licensing and credentialing to enable them to provide the high quality of therapeutic care that Central Illinois has come to expect from the SPICE program.

Pediatric Therapy Services include:

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Aquatics Therapy

Water Based Therapy provided in a warm water pool experience. This enables children with developmental disabilities or acute injuries to benefit from the buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, and warm temperature of the water to meet developmental goals.

Counseling Services

Services for families and children with developmental disabilities. Counseling services can address a wide variety of concerns related to a child with special needs being a part of your family.

Developmental Therapy

Provide global/over all developmental evaluations and on-going treatment focusing on play skills and developing learning rich environments.

Feeding Therapy

Provide examination, evaluation, and on-going treatment of children experiencing difficulty with feeding.

Hippo Therapy

Horse based therapy with NARRA certified therapist trained to use the horse to meet the child's goals related to mobility, strength and life skills.

Occupational Therapy

Provide examination, evaluation, and on-going treatment of children experiencing limited function related to fine motor skills, sensory processing, and self care skills.

Orthotic Support

Therapists work closely with the family and the orthopedist of their choosing (therefore respecting family choice) for orthotics and braces.

Physical Therapy

Provide examination, evaluation, and on-going treatment of children experiencing limited function or mobility due to neurological, orthopedic, or developmental disabilities.

Sensory Integration Therapy

Provide examination, evaluation, and on-going treatment of children experiencing difficulty with sensory processing.

Speech Therapy

Provide examination, evaluation, and on-going treatment of children related to expressive communication, receptive communication, and oral/motor development.

Family Support services provided through the SPICE program:

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Case Management

Support through the process of developing a plan individualized for your child and your families needs. Assist in coordination with medical professionals, school personnel, or childcare centers to ensure a team approach as everyone works with your child.

Resource Library

Loaning of educational materials including books and DVDs to be of assistance to families.

Equipment Lending Library

Loaning of equipment to help families determine what equipment works best for your child's needs and then assistance in ordering adaptive equipment that is successful for your child that you need in your home on a permanent basis.

Family Outings

This is a social opportunity for parents and families to get together held in the local community at child friendly locations. This is a chance for family fun and to meet other families that have children with special needs.

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What is it like to parent a child with special needs? Parent support groups are a terrific way for parents facing similar, challenging situations in life to offer each other encouragement, share ideas, and reduce stress.
Meet the 2nd Thursday of every month beginning on February 10, 2011 5:00-6:30 p.m. at marcfirst/SPICE, 1606 Hunt Drive, Normal, Illinois
Supervised playtime will be available for children, reservations are required. For more information or to RSVP, please call or email Leigh Hayes at (309) 452-0069, ext. 260.
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SPICE provides monthly community outings to provide social support and growth experiences as well as exploration of childhood environments in McLean County.
Transition classes for children 2 1/2 to 3 years of age with classes centered on developing skills for school.

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FREE developmental screenings are available for children 3 years and younger by calling SPICE at 451-8888 ext. 203

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Christy Kosharek
marcfirst

Phone: (309) 452-0069 ext. 203
christykosharek@marcfirst.org

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We want to ensure that everyone is aware of the potential costs to services. Therefore we have safeguards in place to ensure that you would not be surprised by any costs to services. These safeguards include:

Financial agreements that allow us to determine what payment options are available to you as a family and to ensure accurate billing of services.
Families receive communication regarding an estimated cost to services.
For families that have co-payments or self pay, they receive a monthly statement showing the cost of services.

Methods of payment: SPICE of Marcfirst accepts a variety of payment options including:

Illinois Department of Public Aid
Kid's Care
Traditional private insurance
Division of Specialized Care for Children (DSCC

A sliding fee scale is utilized to make services available to individuals that may not otherwise have the financial resources available to receive services.

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This chart will guide you through the growth and development of an average child during the critical ages from birth to three years. Please remember that every child is unique---growing and developing at different rates. Most of the time differences between children of the same age are nothing to worry about. But for one child in 10, the difference can be related to a developmental delay.