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🎃👻 SPIRIT WEEK IS COMING! 👻🎃The last week of October is all about a little extra fun at Ability Plus Therapy! 💚 We’re in...
10/23/2026

🎃👻 SPIRIT WEEK IS COMING! 👻🎃

The last week of October is all about a little extra fun at Ability Plus Therapy! 💚 We’re inviting everyone to join us! Here’s what’s coming up:
🍂 MONDAY — Pumpkin Best
Break out your favorite fall colors! 🧡🤎
🐾 TUESDAY — Animal Day
Dress as your favorite animal or cowboy! 🤠
🏈 WEDNESDAY — Sport Spirit
Represent your favorite team with a jersey or team gear! 📣
👑 THURSDAY — Princess vs. Superhero
Will you be royalty or save the day? You decide! 🦸‍♀️✨
🎃 FRIDAY — Costume Day
Finish the week by dressing up in your favorite school-appropriate costume! 👻

We can’t wait to see everyone’s creativity, team spirit, and fun outfits throughout the week! 💚

Which day are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments! 👇

10/19/2026

Chelsie’s three-week Intensive Physical Therapy session was all about weight shifting, postural control, and building the skills that support more functional movement.

⚖️ Galileo + Rifton Pacer — Working on getting more weight through her left leg by lifting the right leg off the vibration plate. She tends to rely heavily on one leg, so learning to shift her weight and lift the opposite leg is an important foundation for stepping and transfers.
👣 Treadmill + Rifton Pacer — Then it was time to put that work into action! The treadmill gave her an opportunity to practice stepping after working on that weight distribution.
💪 Prone over a wedge — Working on weight bearing through her arms, head control, and extension. Prone adds a little more resistance, helping build the strength needed to lift and maintain her body in more upright positions.
🪑 Pull to sit — Working on anticipatory control, head control, and scapular control as she moved from sidelying to sitting and back down again. We want her to maintain control rather than simply letting her head fall back as she lowers.
↔️ Spider Cage — Practicing weight shifting from leg to leg with Heather providing movement side-to-side for vestibular input. She also worked towards lifting her head and maintaining head control throughout the movement.

Each activity is targeting a different piece of the puzzle. Together, they’re helping her build the control, strength, and weight-shifting skills needed for more functional movement. 💚

Fantastic work, Chelsie! 🙌

👉 Follow for more Intensive Therapy journeys!

10/16/2026

Sometimes we bounce, but an exercise ball can be so much more than that!

Depending on the kiddo and their goals, our PTs and OTs use it to work on:
⚖️ Balance and postural control
💪 Core and extensor strength
🧠 Body and spatial awareness
🤲 Weight bearing and upper-body strength
↔️ Righting reactions and motor planning
👀 Head control and visual engagement
💚 Sensory input and regulation
🎯 Coordination, timing and purposeful movement

The best part? We can change the ball size, position, angle, amount of support, or activity to meet each kiddo where they are and challenge them in a way that makes sense for their goals.

👉 Follow along for more of how we turn movement into meaningful therapy. 💚

10/14/2026

Sometimes the biggest progress is in the smallest movements. 💚

During Parker’s three-week Intensive OT session, one of the biggest changes we've seen is how much more this kiddo is using his right arm and how much more purposeful that movement has become.
👀 Sitting Balance + Tobii Dynavox Eye Gaze - Working on midline trunk control, sitting balance, and tolerating his glasses while improving the accuracy of his eye gaze for communication.
🎯 CIMT + Reaching - Before his intensive, his right arm often stayed close to his chest. Now, we're seeing him reach toward a target with much more precision. He's gone from a broad sweeping motion to actually hitting his target and even beginning to attempt a grasp.
💪 Propped Sitting Balance - Working on weight bearing through both arms, maintaining midline, head control, and learning to make balance corrections instead of simply losing the position. Those moments of correcting himself and holding the position for longer are meaningful progress.

It's not just about moving an arm, holding a position, or hitting a target.

It's about gaining more control, more purposeful movement, and more opportunities to participate and communicate. 💚

Amazing work Parker! 👏

👉 Follow along for more Intensive Therapy journeys!

10/12/2026

This is what teamwork looks like at Ability Plus Therapy. 💚

During a game of Memory, Tally was working with Leo for his Occupational Therapy session. Tanya, Leo’s Physical Therapist, was working with another kiddo.

When tall kneeling started getting difficult, Tally paused and asked Tanya a simple question:
“Why does he push his butt out so hard?”

Tanya knew exactly what she was seeing in Leo, his tight hip flexors were making the position more challenging. So instead of continuing to fight the position, Tally grabbed a bench and changed the approach. Now he could focus on reaching and participating in the game without the positioning becoming the barrier.

It was a small moment, but it says a lot about the way our team works.

Our therapists ask questions. They share what they know. They learn from each other. And they adjust along the way to help each kiddo succeed.

Different disciplines. Different perspectives. One team working toward the same goal. 💚

👉 Follow to see what collaborative pediatric therapy looks like in action!

10/07/2026

Focusing on control, coordination, and functional movement, Curren got to work during his three-week Intensive Physical Therapy session.

⬆️ Navigating up and down — Practicing eccentric quad control by learning to lower slowly instead of crashing down, while also working on safety awareness and motor planning across mats of different heights.
🪜 Stairs — Taking those skills to a more functional challenge. He worked on controlled lowering, watching where his feet were going, and planning where his body needed to be in relation to each step.
🚲 Rifton Adaptive Tricycle — Building strength while also working on reciprocal movement patterns, motor planning, endurance, directional control, attention, and safety awareness.

Every exercise has a bigger purpose. We're building the skills that help movement become more controlled, functional, and independent. 💚

Way to put in the work Curren! 💪

10/05/2026

So… what’s it like to be a pediatric therapist? 👀

A bit of this, and a whole lot of teamwork, creativity, problem-solving, and making a difference, together. 💚

At Ability Plus Therapy, our PTs, OTs, and SLPs bring their own expertise to a team that works together to help every kiddo reach their goals.

If you’re looking for a team where you can grow, collaborate, have fun, and make meaningful impact, we’d love to meet you.

Come do this with us. 👋💚

👇 Visit the link in the comments or reach out to our Operations Director, Karen at [email protected] for further information or to send your resume.

10/02/2026

Physical Therapy is about so much more than exercises. It’s about helping each kiddo build the strength, skills, confidence, and independence to participate more fully in their everyday lives.

Behind every session is a therapist who is watching, adapting, encouraging, and finding new ways to help a kiddo move toward their goals.

We’re incredibly grateful for the PTs who show up every day ready to meet each kiddo where they are and help them discover what’s possible. 💚

Happy Physical Therapy Month to our amazing PT team! 🥳

Participation shouldn’t mean “doing it the way everyone else does.”For neurodivergent students, meaningful participation...
10/01/2026

Participation shouldn’t mean “doing it the way everyone else does.”

For neurodivergent students, meaningful participation may look different and that’s not a problem to fix. It’s an opportunity to change the approach.

💬 Communication might happen through AAC, movement, gestures, facial expressions, or a combination of all of them.
⚖️ Choice gives students a way to show what they know while letting their personalities come through.
🔀 Moving to a different position, taking a break, or changing how they engage doesn’t mean learning has stopped.
🙌 “Hands-on” learning doesn’t have to mean using hands. Students need access to experience what they’re learning in ways that work for them.
💕 And being social means recognizing communication when it happens and creating opportunities for students to connect with the people around them.

Meaningful participation isn’t about making every student participate in the same way. It’s about making sure every student has a way in. That’s what it means to create access.

👉 Learn more about creating access at nolimitsmethod.com

09/30/2026

Another Intensive Therapy Recap! 💚

Three kiddos, three different sets of goals, and lots of intentional movement! 💪

🛴 Synnove's Sunshine Scooters — Leo practiced steering a system similar to power wheelchair controls while working on hand placement and directional control.
💚 Transfer Practice — Nico worked on building the skills needed to move from wheelchair to floor, supporting greater independence with everyday mobility.
⚖️ Dynamic Sitting — Arwen challenged herself with sitting balance, postural control, and head control while using weight shifts to encourage input and righting reactions.

Different activities. Different goals. One focus: building skills that help kiddos move, participate, and become more independent. 💚

Great work Leo, Nico, and Arwen! 🙌

👉 Follow along for more Intensive Therapy sessions!

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4450 W Eau Gallie Boulevard, Ste 180
Melbourne, FL
32934

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
Friday 8am - 4:30pm

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+13212556627

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