Justabout Pediatric Therapy

Justabout Pediatric Therapy Justabout Pediatric Therapy is a private therapy clinic, located in McMurray, PA - helping kids grow, move, and communicate with confidence.

It’s back to school season! 🎒 We are so excited for all our families as they kick off the new school year! 📚 We can’t wa...
08/24/2026

It’s back to school season! 🎒 We are so excited for all our families as they kick off the new school year! 📚 We can’t wait to see what you learn next!

Meet Ms. Becky, our physical therapist and the owner of Justabout Pediatric Therapy!
👶🏻Favorite Subject: Learning to crawl & walk
🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️Wants to Learn: Even more toe walking exercises
💜Favorite Color: Purple
🍦Favorite Food: Ice Cream

Physical therapy can help build important gross motor skills required for learning and play at school. Can your child...
🚌Step up onto the bus?
🪑Maintain stability while sitting up in their chair?
🪜Climb on the playground?
🚶🏼Regulate their pace while walking in line down the hall?

Contact us at (724)941-4414 to learn more about the role of physical therapy in helping your child move, learn, and grow with confidence! 🌟

The games sitting in your closet at home make great tools for targeting speech & language! 🃏👀 Here is how you can use th...
08/21/2026

The games sitting in your closet at home make great tools for targeting speech & language! 🃏👀 Here is how you can use the simple game of Spot It to target articulation and vocabulary!

To Target Articulation:
🔴 Use the pictures on the game as target words for specific sounds. (ex: spot, baseball, and pants to work on /s/)
🔴 The child finds the match and must say the target word 3 times before keeping the card.
🔴 Add a challenge: Have your child say the word in a phrase or sentence.
To Target Vocabulary Expansion:

Use the pictures to teach categories, functions, attributes, & associations. When you find the match, have your child tell you...
🔴 What category does it belongs to?
🔴 What does it do?
🔴 What does it look like?
🔴 What’s something that goes with it?

At Justabout Pediatric Therapy, progress is made through play, making fun FUNCTIONAL! 🌟 Let us know your favorite game to play with friends and family!

Help us wish our friend a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY! n🥳 We are so excited to see the new skills you learn and adventures you ha...
08/20/2026

Help us wish our friend a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY! n🥳 We are so excited to see the new skills you learn and adventures you have this year! 🎈🌟

What’s That Wednesday 🤔👃🏻Hyponasal speech happens when not enough sound travels through the nose to make nasal sounds li...
08/19/2026

What’s That Wednesday 🤔

👃🏻Hyponasal speech happens when not enough sound travels through the nose to make nasal sounds like m, n, and ng. This causes the sound to be blocked and sound like you have a stuffy nose.

What does it sound like? 👂🏻 Kids might say:

👶🏻“baby” instead of maybe
🙅🏻“doh” instead of no
👩🏻‍🎤“sig” instead of sing

Why does it happen? ❓Common causes include:
🤧Stuffy nose from allergies or illness
📈Enlarged adenoids
👃🏻Nasal blockage
👃🏻Structural differences in the nose

📞Contact us today to learn more about how speech therapy can support your child to communicate with confidence! 📆We have immediate openings for new patients!

Happy Milestone Monday from Justabout Pediatric Therapy! 💙Did you know your child should begin answering simple “what” q...
08/17/2026

Happy Milestone Monday from Justabout Pediatric Therapy! 💙

Did you know your child should begin answering simple “what” questions around 12-18 months old? 🤔These questions include “What do you want?” or “What is this?”

These questions assist with expanding your child’s vocabulary, which is crucial for language development. 🗣️ As kids get older, they begin to be able to respond to more complex questions, but remember to start simple.

Common mistakes parents make when teaching WH- Questions are:
👀Not modeling questions properly
❌Overcorrecting mistakes
📆Lacking consistency
🪜Skipping the basics
🌟Ignoring a child’s interests

Want to learn strategies to support your child’s language development? 📞 Contact us to learn more about speech therapy services, we have immediate openings for new patients!

08/14/2026

Sit up and READ! 📖

🏫 Since it is almost back to school, we thought we’d also target trunk strengthening with this week’s activity. Sitting upright at a desk at school requires good trunk strength and endurance. 🪑 When trunk muscles are weak, kids may fidget, put their heads on their desks, bother their “neighbor,” refuse to do their work, or just be silly. 🤸🏻‍♂️ When trunk muscles are strong, kids do not have to waste valuable attention and energy on avoidance techniques. They are also safe from falling out of their chairs.

Situps are commonly used as a trunk strengthening exercise. Adding a ball and a book makes a difficult exercise fun! 😁 Ms. Becky loves reading picture books to kids and tries to incorporate reading into as many activities as possible. To combine reading and sit ups, simply read a page or two, help them with one situp, then ask the child to turn the page. As the child fatigues, add more pages before the situp, to give them some rest. You can monitor your child’s progress by counting how many situps they can complete or how much help they need.

Are you curious if trunk weakness contributes to your child’s school difficulties? 🎒 Ask us for a physical therapy screening. Warning: Time spent with our therapists may also result in a love for reading! 📚

What’s That Wednesday 🤔📏A goniometer is a tool used to measure a joint range of motion. During our assessments, this too...
08/12/2026

What’s That Wednesday 🤔

📏A goniometer is a tool used to measure a joint range of motion.

During our assessments, this tool helps us determine if a child has the flexibility needed to complete tasks with ease. 🤸🏾‍♀️If we plan to use goniometry, we explain what the goniometer is in kid-appropriate language, and let them “measure” with it first.

If we do not use a goniometer, it is for a good reason! Kids are not just tiny adults. At Justabout Pediatric Therapy, we may spend time playing, moving, and building trust first before attempting any hands-on measurements. 🛝 When we do not use a goniometer, we use our skills as pediatric therapists to observe, estimate, and track changes in range of motion while we “play.” Our range of motion assessments look like... squatting to get beanbags, spraying a sidewalk with water, pulling squigz from a mirror, pinching tiny craft pom poms, crab walking, playing Chutes and Ladders... ⚽🪞🦀🃏

Do you have concerns about your child’s motor skills? 🏃🏾‍♀️Let our therapists use our powers of play to create fun activities and help them move with confidence!

It’s Milestone Monday! 👶🏼 Head control in newborns is a foundational skill and milestone - helping a baby build gross mo...
08/10/2026

It’s Milestone Monday! 👶🏼 Head control in newborns is a foundational skill and milestone - helping a baby build gross motor skills and engage with the environment!

While playing in tummy time...
A 1️⃣ month old baby should lift their head briefly
A 2️⃣ month old baby should lift their head to at least 45 degrees and hold for a few seconds
A 3️⃣ month old baby should hold their head up at 90 degrees and easily turn to the right and left sides to look at toys and people

Do you notice your child resisting tummy time or having difficulty lifting their head to explore their environment? 📞 Contact us today to learn how Mrs Becky, our physical therapist, can support your child’s early motor development to move, learn, & grow with confidence! 💙

Chalk activities can target skills across disciplines, prompting development in multiple areas! 🖍️A speech therapist may...
08/08/2026

Chalk activities can target skills across disciplines, prompting development in multiple areas! 🖍️

A speech therapist may target language, including describing or following directions, while using chalk!

Draw simple summer pictures or other designs with your child, then practice:
☀️Labeling: sun, shell, popsicle, flip‑flop
🗣️Speech Sounds: target sounds (/s/, /sh/, /l/, and /f/) with pictures
👂🏽Following Directions: hop on the shell, stand under the sun, sit next to the flip-flop

An occupational therapist may target hand strength and school readiness skills during chalk play!
🖍️Practice drawing shapes and letters
🖐🏼Then, grab a spray bottle filled with water to make the designs disappear!

Squeezing a spray bottle builds hand strength and fine motor skills that can support scissor use and functional grasps for coloring and writing.

💗Let us know your favorite way to play with chalk!

🎧Noise cancelling headphones can be used as a sensory tool to decrease auditory input or sounds in the environment.👂🏻Peo...
08/05/2026

🎧Noise cancelling headphones can be used as a sensory tool to decrease auditory input or sounds in the environment.

👂🏻People with auditory sensitivity often benefit from using headphones in loud or busy environments, such as live performances, the grocery store, or at school!

Want to learn more about sensory processing tools to support your child? 📞 Contact us today to learn how occupational therapy can support sensory processing!

Address

608 E. McMurray Road
McMurray, PA
15317

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm

Telephone

+17249414414

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