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Our Integrated Approach

At blueballoon Health Services we realize that no one discipline or approach provides all the answers needed to meet the broad and complex range of children’s needs. Many healthcare professionals often operate quite independently within their disciplines or techniques. Instead, blueballoonbrings together expertise in a range of disciplines and therapeutic modalities with the goal of tailoring a comprehensive program to meet the needs of the individual child. Further, we have built organizational processes, facilitated by state-of-the-art technology, to ensure that members of the blueballoon clinical team communicate effectively and coordinate services. The benefits of this approach are numerous. By bringing together multiple disciplines and techniques under one roof, blueballoon helps parents navigate the process of attaining needed assessments and treatments for their child. Parents avoid the complicated, time consuming, expensive, and emotionally exhausting process of visiting multiple health professionals and then piecing together the various recommendations themselves.

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lueballoon, the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration can be observed through the daily informal meetings of therapists and parents to the more formally and specifically designed interdisciplinary programs such as joint discipline assessments and cross-discipline programming.

blueballoon's Philosophy and Guiding Principles

The need and desire for on-going supports and direct treatment is recognized at blueballoon Health Services and our treatment programs are effective and customized to each child's needs. blueballoon Health Services therapists are trained to work with children from infancy through to adolescence, including premature babies and other high risk infants.

At blueballoon Health Services we believe that every child is unique. Each child needs to learn and develop certain skills in order to play, learn at school, socialize, and complete self-care activities. These are goals that any parent would want for their child.

Assessment and goal setting allows the therapist and parent/caregiver to comprehend the child's needs and learning style and develop a treatment plan. In addition, it allows the parent/caregiver to take this information and share it with other professionals and supports who are working with the child. How a child acquires and develops these skills and meets these goals may be unique and therefore, how we support and encourage the development of these skills will then also be unique. Establishing customized therapy programs of great importance in order to achieve the desired outcomes.

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