About
Snapdragon Child Development is a multidisciplinary team of Early Interventionists providing services for children aged birth to three years and their families. Founded in 2017. Our vision is to provide excellent early intervention services for all families.
The Snapdragon Approach
Relationship is the foundation of all early learning. We use the connection between child and parent, child and caregiver, child and therapist to foster development.
We use the child’s strengths to build new learning within their family’s routine. We believe that the primary expert(s) on a child is the parent(s).
We offer expertise on development and decades of combined years of experience with children and families, but that expertise is incomplete and irrelevant without the expertise of the parent. It is the meeting of these two knowledge sources that provides precisely what a child needs.
In order to address the whole child thoroughly, we use a transdisciplinary approach. We continually learn from and collaborate with other disciplines and apply that knowledge to intervention strategies. We can bring in or refer to other disciplines when additional expertise is required including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, infant mental health specialists, feeding specialists, pediatric dieticians and sleep consultants through Early Intervention.
Children form their best connections and attain new skills and understanding best in play. Play and daily routines (eating, bedtime, greetings and goodbyes, dressing, diaper changes, outings, etc) are how and where we create learning opportunities. These activities day after day provide the meaningful repetition and experience that form new knowledge and skills.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But, for children, play IS serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
-Fred Rogers
Feedback from children and families:
Thank you for the time you have spent working with Max! Your advice and help problem solving Max’s issues has been so helpful to our family. –Alison
Thank you so much for being my therapist. All of your hard work and patience has given me a great gift: expression. Thank you for helping me understand and communicate about my world. Thank you also for being so good to my mom. Sometimes all this stuff with me makes her sad, scared or overwhelmed. You were a really big help with all of those feelings. You have been a good friend to me and I will miss you. Love, Jaxson (and his mom)
We wanted to thank you so very much for your wonderful work with Tyler. It has been so amazing every week to see him grow and change. Your advice has been invaluable and very helpful in dealing with the good days and bad days or raising a child who is so bright and challenging. Ty loves his preschool class and has made two friends. He is doing well and is reading through our local library. You have been such a blessing to us during a very stressful and confusing time. We appreciate all that you have done to help our family. –F Family
Watching you with him, and how you play, has simply made me a better mother. I am so happy you came into our lives. . . You really opened my eyes to how I can play with him better/ more productively. –Amanda
