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Summer 2024 at Way to Grow Pediatric Therapy + Enrichment Center

Where Children + Parents Reach New Heights

By Julia Briggs, Macaroni KID Peoria + Way To Grow Pediatrics March 21, 2024

We at Way to Grow Pediatric Therapy + Enrichment Center want to help you and your child reach new heights! We are all about having FUN and creating developmental connections along the way. Here at Way to Grow, we believe that Play is the Way, and we’re here to help you reach your goals year-round! Located in Peoria Heights at Heritage Square, we are a friendly team of therapists offering speech-language therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, feeding therapy, audiological evaluations, and enrichment activities + events with a neurodiversity-affirming approach for kids ages birth to 18!

Now that February has turned to March, the snow has melted away - the time has come to make some fun summer plans! But what are you to do when the span from one school year to the next feels miles long… and those important skills necessary for school, play, and LIFE start to lag behind? Maybe your mind drifts to thoughts of attention skills, direction following, speech sounds, sensory regulation, relationship building,  language expression, gross motor skills, reading + writing, or play skills… But we at Way to  Grow are firm believers that summer doesn’t have to mean PAUSING the learning + exploring -  summer can be a great time to buckle up and SPEED ON AHEAD!



Way to Grow is here to help you bridge the gap!  

We offer loads of fun summer services such as:

Special interest groups!

  • Strategy + role-playing games for that brainiac kid of yours
  •  Arts and crafts, for that creative soul
  •  Invigorating sensory play, for young + curious minds
  •  Lego fun, for your future engineer
  • Theatre + songs, for that born performer

- Enrichment events: 

  • One-time commitments that spark creativity + foster family bonding!

- Evaluations to target those additional areas of interest:

  • Difficulty with reading, spelling, processing, and hearing sounds in words - Gross motor delays
  • Adequate hearing ability, but difficulty processing and following directions - Focus on sensory processing + fine motor skills
  • Struggle to be understood clearly by others
  • Having a hard time verbalizing wants and needs
  • Difficulty eating a variety of foods safely  
  • Direction understanding and following
  • Dyslexia services - Did you know that 1 in 5 people has dyslexia? Effective support for dyslexia is quite specialized - but we offer it here!  

- One-on-one summer therapy services:

  • Individualizing therapy services to suit your child’s most pertinent needs!
  • Click HERE for a FREE summer services screener + get ready to soar to new heights!

Follow us on Facebook or Instagram, visit our website, and call our office at (309) 363-7594 if you just can’t wait ‘till summer to jump on in!

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