Embedded Therapies

ICAN Academy integrates licensed, professional therapists from ICAN directly into the school day to provide coordinated, intensive therapeutic support within a structured academic environment. Rather than separating education and intervention, our model ensures that therapeutic services are thoughtfully embedded throughout daily routines, classroom instruction, and peer interactions.

This collaborative approach allows students to develop communication, regulation, motor, and social skills in real time — within the context where those skills are most meaningful and functional.

By integrating these services into the academic day, ICAN Academy provides a comprehensive, team-based model designed to promote meaningful progress across all areas of development while supporting long-term educational success.

Speech Therapy

Children with speech and language challenges have difficulty in one or more areas of communication. These difficulties may affect their ability to develop relationships, progress academically, understand others' ideas and share their thoughts. Speech and Ianguage therapy treats disorders and concerns in the areas of:

  • Receptive and expressive language–the ability to understand and use language to communicate

  • Pragmatic language and social skills - how we use language to interact with others

  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) - the use of low- or high-tech devices to aid and foster communication and self-advocacy

  • Articulation–using the structures and muscles of the oral mechanism to accurately project the sounds required

  • Literacy - learning to use speech sounds to read and write

  • Voice–using appropriate pitch, volume, and intonation

  • Fluency–the ability to connect sounds, syllables, and words together smoothly

Feeding Therapy

Feeding therapy can help kids to eat a varied and healthy diet, overcome sensory-based fears of food, and improve fine motor and oral motor skills in order to successfully participate in mealtimes.

Feeding therapy with a speech language pathologist or occupational therapist can help with:

  • Picky Eaters (less than 10 fruits/vegetables, 10 sources of protein, 10 grains/carbs, or less than 20 foods total in diet)

  • If food falls out of your child’s mouth

  • Slow mealtimes

  • Frequent vomiting or reflux

  • Avoidance of specific textures/flavors

  • Coughing after swallowing

  • Avoiding mealtimes and food

  • Slow or limited weight/height gain

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy (OT) for kids helps them succeed in the important areas of their lives, their "occupations of childhood”, including play, eating, sleeping, dressing, social participation, and education. OTs address delays or concerns in the areas of:

  • fine and gross motor skills

  • cognitive skills, sensory processing

  • social development

  • self-care

OT works to build foundational skills by using specialized equipment and playful sensory-motor activities to provide the "just right" challenge for children as they develop skills through participation in their occupations.