Therapy and Adaptive Fitness for Children & Teens

EA Therapeutic Health’s Child and Teen Services Program is Southeast MN’s only physical therapy and therapeutic play center. Our rehabilitation therapists and therapeutic recreation staff understand your unique challenges and tailor activities with the goal to help every child and teen be happy, healthy, and as independent as possible. Your goals are our goals. Our fun and vibrant facility is designed specifically for your child to grow to be a successful adult. Right next door to our adult and senior program, we offer a lifelong growth opportunity as your child transitions and grows through the years.

Who will benefit?

Is your child or teen delayed in achieving developmental milestones such as crawling, talking, socially interacting, or walking?
Does your child or teen seem to have more difficulty than other children their age with anxiety or challenges with the way they process incoming information?
Is your child or teen delayed in social skills as compared to their friends?
Has your child or teen been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down’s Syndrome, cerebral palsy, or developmental delay?
Does your child or teen require more therapy than offered in the birth to three or school-based therapy programs to meet their goals now and throughout life.

Services & Programs

Physical Therapy

Pediatric physical therapy addresses a variety of limitations and difficulties that a child may be having at home, in the classroom, or community. The goal of skilled physical therapy is to enable the child to be able to participate in age-appropriate activities and to assist each child in reaching their maximum potential. The focus of physical therapy will entail one-on-one care addressing:

Therapeutic Play Ages 1-11

EA offers both 1:1 and small group Therapeutic Play (known as FIT 4 Play) as an effective and beneficial service to reinforce and strengthen the benefits of therapy for your child. Sometimes known as Play Therapy or Adaptive Athletics, recent research has shown that therapy visits alone are often not enough. Your child will benefit greatly from time to practice in a therapy aware setting with qualified therapeutic recreation professionals. Your child will experience improved outcomes if they also participate in individualized therapeutic play programming.

Our Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist will work with the your child’s therapists no matter where they receive their therapy care to determine the best fit for what your child needs to continue to work on their skills to reach the ultimate goal of meaningful and successful participation in school, play, extracurricular activities or athletics. They may require 1:1 practice before they are ready for a small group. Our team will complete an assessment and make recommendations on their placement of either individual or group therapy intervention based on their person-centered goals. Our ultimate goal is to help with their success playing with peers, so we encourage you to look at our small groups or classes once your child is ready!

To add Therapeutic Play to your child’s current therapy program, call us to schedule a consultation or contact us with our online form below. No physical therapy visit is required ahead of time and you do not need a medical referral for this program.

Adaptive Fitness, Athletics, and Sports for ages 11-18+

EA offers both 1:1 and small group adaptive fitness programming as an effective and beneficial service to reinforce and strengthen the benefits of your pre-teen or teens therapy. Sometimes known as Play Therapy or Adaptive Athletics, recent research has shown that therapy visits alone is often not enough and that your child or teen needs practice in a therapy aware setting. They will have improved outcomes if they also participate in individualized programming that takes therapy to the next level.

Our Therapeutic Health Specialists are specialized personal trainer, recreation therapists, health coaches and exercise physiologists. They work with our physical therapists or your school therapists to determine the best fit for what your teens needs to continue to work on their skills to reach the ultimate goal of meaningful and successful participation in school activities or community living. This program will set them up for success at school, in community rec programs, and into adulthood!

To add adaptive fitness or sports to your teen’s therapy program, call us to schedule a consultation. Also see our complete listing of specialized classes and camps. And if you love basketball, our wheelchair basketball team, the Med City Rollers is waiting for you to join!! You do not have to use a wheelchair full time to participate.

Additionally, we also have health coaches available to assist with obesity reduction or prevention. Our health coaches will help your child or teen focus on goals to increase their physical activity and learn to pick healthy food choices. We do so in a supportive and family-led approach.

Autism Fitness

How much does it cost?

Our rehabilitation services, including Physical Therapy, are generally covered by health insurance. You may request a copy of our fee schedule for therapy services.
We are proud to accept all government and commercial payers. We accept and are in network with MN Medicaid, Medicare, Ucare, BCBS, Medica, Tier II Mayo Medica, United Health Care, South Country Alliance, Aetna, and more. We can provide you a superbill for any insurances which are out of network.
For all services beyond therapy, we accept the following forms of payment:
- Cash
- Credit or Debit
- Waivers – we accept CSG, CDCS payments and also are a licensed 245D provider. We will work directly with your case manager to create a service agreement for direct pay from your DD, CADI or other waiver programs. Contact your case manager with questions if any of these apply.
- Adaptive Exercise and Therapeutic Play Program Fees
  - Prices are based on level of need and program type. Cost associated with your plan at EA is dependent on a full assessment as we recommend what your child or teen needs, not just what you can afford. Financial Assistance is also available. See class catalog for full list of prices.
  - Camps and Classes are individually priced. See our link below for the latest class and camp offerings
  - We offer reduced and sliding scale fees according to a Financial Assessment Application. Please ask our staff if you would like to be considered for financial assistance.

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Outpatient pediatric therapy and adaptive fitness services are a great addition to your school-based programming to assist your child to achieve their goals.