A referral from your physician may be required before we can begin therapy. Please ask your physician to fax a referral to our fax 813-269-4879. If you have a copy, you can take a picture and email it to Admin@LamaTherapies.com

If your child has received therapy from another agency within the last 6 months, a copy of the evaluation and care plan from the previous agency can be used in place of a new evaluation.

Once all the required documentation has been completed, we will contact you directly to schedule an evaluation. What is an evaluation? During the session, the therapist will use standardized measures to determine your child’s individual profile to guide therapeutic sessions. A caregiver interview will be conducted as well to give our therapist a more in depth background of your child’s interests, developmental milestones, and challenges in their natural environments. If you choose to step out after the parent interview, we can assess your child individually but you are more than welcome to stay in the room for the entirety of the assessment. We will review the results with you towards the end of the session so you know what to expect from our report. With all of this information, an evaluation and plan of care will be written to address your child’s specific needs.

Following the evaluation or assessment, the therapists will make recommendations if therapy is needed and how often. A 6-month plan of care will be developed and shared with you. We will schedule weekly sessions as recommended by the therapist. Some insurances and therapy types will require a separate authorization after the evaluation is completed. If this is the case, therapy will be scheduled once authorization is approved.