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Celebrating Our Spectacular Social Workers
This month, we’re celebrating one of the toughest, but also fastest growing professions: social work. According to the National Association of Social Workers, there are around 720,000 social workers in the US and that number continues to grow. This is fortunate,...
Where Are They Now? Former Therapy & Fun Participants Share Their Stories
“Having stepping stones like your program to be able to be supported and to reach potential at a very young age allowed me to be as successful as possible.” - Jon Krieger In 1982, Therapy & Fun was started as a way to help children with developmental delays keep...
Resolutions Done Right: Five Tips For Creating and Accomplishing Your Goals This Year
Happy New Year! Now is a great time for reflection, setting goals, and writing the wrong number on dates for at least a month or two. Today, we’re going to be focusing on setting goals. I sat down with Josh Twiest, a counselor here at CTC, to talk about New Year's...
Two Years of Playing and Learning Together
Back in 2020, Comprehensive Therapy Center was fortunate to receive funding from the Kent County Ready by Five Millage to hold our Therapeutic Play & Learn Groups. These groups were created by our programs team to support families of children ages 0-5 with...
An EPIC Announcement!
“Congratulations to everyone at CTC for this award, recognizing the agency’s work to foster community growth through efforts that are entrepreneurial, progressive, innovative and collaborative.” – Tom Miller, CTC Board President
More Alike Than Different: Interview with Roshelle Seals, Board VP of the Down Syndrome Association of West Michigan
October is Down Syndrome awareness month! If you don’t know, Down Syndrome is a condition that occurs when a child is born with an extra chromosome. According to the CDC, about 1 in 700 babies are born with Down Syndrome and it can affect anyone, regardless of race or...
No Tricks, Just Treats: Tips for Celebrating Halloween With Neurodiverse Children
Trick or treat! The only time it’s expected of you to take candy from strangers. Children everywhere are counting down the days to when they can put on that Spiderman costume, be out after dark, and stock up on sweets that won’t last the weekend. Well, maybe not all...
Why Won’t They Just Do It?! Five Ways to Improve Your Child’s Executive Functioning Skills
Why is it so hard to get our children to do things sometimes? Why does it take Jessica three hours just to clean her room? Why can’t Carter just do his homework? How come Monique throws a tantrum when it’s time to brush her teeth? All of these things are related to a...
Mission Complete: Therapy & Fun 2021 Recap
Therapy & Fun 2021 blasted off in June with 48 participants! Everyone was super excited about getting to meet in person again. About a third of our participants were returning to the program while the rest were brand new to CTC. The theme this year was outer space...
Not Broken, Just Different: An Introduction to Neurodiversity
Lots of things make people diverse: skin color, gender, culture, being left or right handed. In recent decades, we’ve learned and are beginning to recognize that there’s another difference between humans: our brains.