Starfish Therapies

A pediatric therapy company operating in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. We provide physical, occupational, speech and aquatic therapy services in the most beneficial and convenient setting for you and your child, including our clinic, currently located in Burlingame, your home, school or daycare.

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Halloween Spider Web

October 21, 2018 by Stacy Menz

In the spirit of Halloween we decided to revisit one of our previous activities that we have written about before. We laid down a tape spider web using floor tape and we are leaving it out all month! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Developmental Milestones Tagged With: balance, coordination, exercise, games, gross motor development, imagination, kids, Motor Smart Kids, physical therapy, play, Starfish Therapies, visual motor

Is Toe Walking Typical?

May 30, 2018 by Stacy Menz

When your young child is just learning to stand or walk, you may see them occasionally go up on their tip-toes for a brief moment, then relax back down. This is typical, and is often used to allow for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Developmental Milestones Tagged With: gross motor development, kids, physical therapy, sensory exploration, Starfish Therapies, strengthening, toe walking, visual motor, walking

Ambient and Focal Vision

March 8, 2018 by Stacy Menz

Several of our PT’s recently took a continuing education course where they talked about the differences between focal and ambient vision. Focal vision is what you are looking directly at and can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Developmental Milestones Tagged With: coordination, gross motor development, kids, Motor Smart Kids, physical therapy, vision, visual motor, visual perceptual

Find the Bucket

August 13, 2017 by Stacy Menz

We love collaboration with other providers. We are lucky enough to have an OT company that we reciprocally share space with. This allows us to pick their brains and them to pick ours. One day they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Developmental Milestones Tagged With: balance, Motor Smart Kids, physical therapy, play, reaching, righting reactions, visual motor

Feed the Woozle

August 6, 2017 by Stacy Menz

Another game I have never played, but one of my therapists found a really fun way to use it to motivate one of our kiddos to work on stairs, and more specifically stairs while carrying things. You can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Developmental Milestones Tagged With: balance, coordination, gross motor development, kids, motor planning, Motor Smart Kids, physical therapy, toys, visual motor

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Primary Programs

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I could see the progress being made in my son’s communication...
I could see the progress being made in my son’s communication and overall disposition. Not only were the classes fun, but he also became a lot less frustrated when trying to communicate with others.”

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Locations

  BURLINGAME / MAIN CLINIC
  1541 Old Bayshore Highway
  Burlingame, CA 94010


  SAN FRANCISCO
  (located in KidSpace)
  3401 Mission St.
  San Francisco, CA 94110


  PALO ALTO
  (located in Agile Physical Therapy)
  3825 El Camino Real
  Palo Alto, CA 94306


HALF MOON BAY
  (located at Sensitive Solutions)
  30 Avenue Portola, Suite 200 C & D
  Half Moon Bay, CA 94018

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