The Independent Play Company offers an inclusive, and therapeutic play space to promote age appropriate development of speech, cognitive, socioemotional, and physical skills, for ALL kiddos, ages birth to five years old. It also serves to provide a community space for families to connect, play and learn.
We invite all children to come play!
Your child does not need to have a medical diagnosis, or be currently receiving therapy services (OT, PT, Speech, etc). to play at the Independent Play Company.
We are an open play space that uses therapy based (specifically Occupational Therapy) activities and principles to guide productive play. We use evidence-based and holistic approaches to promote learning through play for children of all needs/learning styles.
We are the only play center in the area owned and organized by a child development specialist, and provide access to otherwise limited therapeutic resources (OT, PT, ST based activities/groups, community wellness and support).
Open Play: Come play in our therapeutic play space, with open access to our OTs for questions, concerns and guidance, if needed! $30 for 1.5 Hours.
Guided Play: An individual 20 minute session with an OT. Personalized consultation and IFSP/IEP review if the child is already receiving services. Home exercise/activity plan, and referrals provided if needed! Essentially, a modified OT session within open play! $45, includes remaining time for open play.
Community Based Therapy Session: Bring your EI/CPSE therapist into our space for your child's regular therapy session. Generalize skills practiced at home in a community setting. $38, an hour of open play included.
Our co-founder, Jackie, is certified in Level C Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI), and is able to offer individual sessions, as well as therapy intensives. Please contact us for pricing!
Yes! We offer special discount codes for siblings and infants to make playtime even more accessible for families.
Be sure to mention this when booking or enter the code at checkout to receive your discount.
Infants: $10 off with code INFANT
Two siblings: $10 off with code 2SIBLINGS
Three siblings: $20 off with code 3SIBLINGS
As we currently do not offer traditional therapy services, we do not accept insurance for our play sessions.
We do offer discount packages, and various payment methods to best accommodate our customers.
We also do not accept insurance for Dynamic Movement Intervention services, but will gladly provide you with a superbill for your insurance company, so that you may receive reimbursement depending on your insurance plan.
Per their official website, Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI) is a therapeutic technique used in physical and occupational therapy to treat children with motor delay by improving automatic postural responses and promoting progress towards developmental milestones. The goal of DMI is to provoke a specified active motor response from the child in response to defined dynamic exercises prescribed by the therapist. This comprehensive intervention incorporates current research on neurorehabilitation, technologies, and methodologies. DMI stimulates neuroplasticity to facilitate new neuronal connections and development of motor milestones.
Regardless of level of cognition and extent of neurological deficit or damage, affected children benefit from DMI motor intervention as it pertains to stimulating neuroplasticity in the developing brain. Children diagnosed with any type of motor delay including conditions such as; Down Syndrome, Cerebral palsy, global developmental delay, hypotonia, chromosomal abnormalities/genetic disorders, spinal cord lesions or acquired brain injury may benefit from this form of therapy. Children at risk, such as those who are born prematurely can also benefit from this therapy due to the strong neuroplastic changes that this treatment stimulates within the developing brain.
