DEVELOPMENTAL INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS

Pediatric Therapies to fit your child’s needs

Offering a client and family-centered approach to pediatric therapy, utilizing proven, evidence-based intervention methods.

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OUR FOCUS

Helping children thrive by creating individualized evidence-based therapy programs.

Kidworks was founded on the belief that helping children achieve their full potential is best accomplished when parents and therapists work together, prioritizing them above all else to create a positive and productive environment. By looking at each child individually, we are able to develop a therapeutic approach that matches your child’s specific needs.

Every child is unique.

At Kidworks, we provide a broad array of services and therapeutic approaches all designed to meet your child’s individual needs. We help your child reach his or her ultimate potential through an evidence-based, individualized approach to pediatric therapy.

Kidworks Pediatric Therapy Center offers a comprehensive range of pediatric therapies all designed to meet each child’s individual needs.

Every child is unique.

At Kidworks, we provide a broad array of services and therapeutic approaches all designed to meet your child’s individual needs. We help your child reach his or her ultimate potential through an evidence-based, individualized approach to pediatric therapy.

INSURANCE ACCEPTED

We accept a wide variety of insurance plans in commercial, government and exchange arenas, including Medicaid.

The insurance experts at Kidworks will work with you to attain the maximum benefits to which you are entitled.  Please contact our office for more information. 

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Built on a Foundation of Caring

From the very beginning, Kidworks was established with an unwavering dedication to helping kids reach their highest level of function in every area of development. At Kidworks, you and your child will find skilled, experienced and credentialed therapists committed to helping your child reach their highest potential while supporting and involving parents, siblings and caregivers. 

Kidworks has been a gift to our family from day one. I was a scared and near-tears mom who’s little boy just aged-out of Indiana’s First Steps and was given a list of places to call to get him more help. As I went through the list, the star aligned. I was surprised when the owner picked up the phone that day- a mom who was inspired by her own children and struggles to find help and who was determined enough to open her own clinic to help others. It was amazing how she could read my fear and know that I needed someone to really walk me through not only the process of “what do I do next,” but also support me with being a mom of a child with special needs for the first time. At the end of that conversation, I felt like someone finally knew how I was feeling and I felt confident getting my son an evaluation for services. 

One day in my son’s occupational therapy session, we had a giant “light-bulb moment.” Our son was in the corner, staring at the hinges in the door. It was as though he was stuck there and had no interest in any other activity. I remember feeling really embarrassed by it. Then, after a while, Molly, our OT, crawled over to the door and started staring at the hinges with him. I asked her, “What are you doing?” She said, “I’m staring at the hinges. You have to enter his world.”

What she was really teaching me was that if I wanted to connect with my son, in a way he could understand, I was going to have to start seeing the world through his eyes. Meet him where he is at. And, from that day forward, nothing was the same. The growth my son had was incredible. She changed MY thinking, so that I could help my son when my therapist was not there. And now, 10 years later, we still refer to this moment and remind ourselves to get into his world. Just the other day, my husband said, “You need to go look at the hinges.” 

We had many services over the years at Kidworks, including Speech Therapy, Music Group, Occupational Therapy, and various social clubs. I owe so many profound experiences in my life to the therapists at Kidworks. My son struggled to talk and spent a lot of time screaming for his needs early on. Then, when he learned to talk, he only spoke back the things he heard. He could say, line for line, every commercial, cartoon, or movie line he ever watched and would say it in a sort of robotic way. He would use these “scripts” to try to communicate with us. For many years, he had never spoken a word that came from his own mind. Then, one day, he said, “I love you” to me and it was different. I wasn’t scripted and it wasn’t spoken in that way where you knew it was from something he watched on TV.

I was lucky enough to be the first one to hear him say words from his mind and his heart and I owe that to Ann, his Speech Therapist. Ann was incredibly supportive and went above and beyond the role of SLP over the years. She watched my son and my family grow not only in size, but in knowledge and confidence. She helped us, help ourselves until the day he “graduated” speech therapy, a truly bittersweet moment for our family.

Many times, when I hear my son chatter on and on today, I think back to those days early on with Ann and think how lucky we were to have her.

I cannot express my gratitude enough to all the therapists that helped my son and my family over the years at Kidworks. Our town is so lucky to have a clinic like this- one that leads with their hearts.

Our Office Address

1120 S Calumet, Suite 3
Chesterton, IN 46304

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(219) 983-9675

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