Dumas Therapy, Inc. is a leading provider of therapy services. Our mission is to assist every client in living their best life through functional therapeutic interventions. We provide a variety of therapy services including occupational therapy, neuromuscular therapy, neurodevelopmental treatment, sensory integration, and massage therapy. Dumas Therapy utilizes all of these interventions to approach therapy from a global standpoint. We evaluate how muscles are functioning and develop individualized treatment to facilitate or inhibit muscular function. We provide adult services for stroke recovery, general weakness, and hand therapy skills. Dumas Therapy provides pediatric services for cerebral palsy, autism, visual impairment and developmental delay. Our services are provided in school settings, in-home therapy, and out patient clinical settings.

Cerebral Palsy:
Our therapist completes a full evaluation for neuromuscular motor responses. This allows us to evaluate muscles that are actively contracting and muscles that are not.  We provide a variety of muscle facilitation techniques to encourage active muscle movement. As part of the evaluation, we look at hypertonic muscle tone.  The goal is to decrease muscle tone though a variety of muscle inhibition techniques including massage therapy.  After getting the tone down, we immediately provide muscle facilitation techniques during the session to teach and promote active muscle contraction.

Autism Program:
Dumas Therapy believes in delivering a global treatment approach to autism. We know the importance of helping parents to understand this diagnosis and to facilitate the child’s ability to learn in his/her environment. Our goal is to meet every child’s need by:

• Creating picture schedules of daily routines
• Customizing a computer generated sensory diet
• Using visual aids to show what to expect
• Desensitizing activities to calm children when overreacting to certain situations
• Applying deep pressure for sensory input
• Safe spot training for over stressful transitions
• Prompting to make choices
• Sequencing
• Visual cue boxes
• Story building activities
• Safety awareness
• Positive reinforcement visuals
• Motivators
• Children’s daily workbooks

Visual Impairments:
Dumas Therapy provides therapy for clients who have visual impairments. We use a wide variety of treatment techniques to advance learning using the tactile, auditory, olfactory, and Proprioceptive movement centers. Our goal is to promote functional independence in our client's life at school or home.

Development Delay – Early Therapy Interventions Program
Dumas Therapy “Early Therapy Interventions Program” is designed for children birth to age three. We are experienced who may not be developing as well as children their age. Many times parents have questions about their child’s development. A child can be developmentally delayed due to neurological conditions, orthopedic conditions, or obstacles present during birth or delivery. Parents can bring a child in and talk to a professional therapist about skills a child should complete at different stages of development. Our therapist will observe the child during play and inform parents of what skills are normally age appropriate for children.  If the doctor refers the child for therapy, a formal evaluation and assessment will be completed at that time. We will work with clients enrolled in local Early Intervention/Babies Can’t Wait Programs.