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Sunshine Physical Therapy Clinic Early Therapy Intervention Grant amount: $20,000 Funds used: $20,000 Total children served: 8 unduplicated children, 364 visits total Cost per child $2,500, $55.00 per visit Focus Area: Early Childhood Development Program Description: The Sunshine Kids Program provides multi -disciplinary rehabilitation services in physical, occupational and speech therapies to children with disabilities due to injury, disease or birth defects. Children enrolled in this program have developmental issues, insufficient insurance coverage, or enrolled in a Medicaid Managed Care program leaving them with limited access to providers of rehabilitation services in Indian River County. Collaboration: Our Sunshine Kids team works together collaboratively: physical, occupational, and speech therapists meet daily discussing our children's goals, progress and carryover from the therapy setting into the outside world. For the period October 2021 through September 2022, we served 8 unduplicated children for a total of 364 visits. Breaking it down further, there were 7 unduplicated children receiving physical therapy for a total of 212 visits. We served 3 unduplicated children receiving 73 visits for occupational therapy. For speech therapy we served 3 unduplicated children for a total of 79 visits. We utilized the full $20,000 in grant money to serve these beautiful children. OUTCOME #1: Early Childhood Development Physical Therapy: Improve scoring on standardized testing by 1 percentile for age for 75% of children receiving physical therapy services. Standardized tools are utilized in pediatric therapy services, to determine initial, interim and discharge status. Common tools utilized in physical therapy include the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales and the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency. JB: Patient is a 12 -year-old boy who presents with toe walking and Gross Motor Delay. He decreased toe walking by 25% and improved in Gross Motor Skills, from the 7th percentile to the 12th percentile and from the 6th percentile to the 311t percentile of the population on the BOT -2, when compared to his peers. He has also achieved 56% of some of his Long -Term Goals. He maintained his ankle passive range of motion of 6 degrees on the right and 10 degrees on the left. AV: Patient is a 5 -year-old boy who presents with decreased muscle tone and Gross Motor Delay. He improved from the 11t to the 5th percentile of the population on the PDMS -2, when compared to his peers. He is now able to walk downstairs alternating feet, jump down 24 inches, hold standing on one leg for up to 5 seconds. Patient can demonstrate a more normal run with good push off and arm swing and trunk rotation. He can also catch a medium ball consistently as well. He has achieved SO% of some of his Long -Term Goals. Em