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Practice providing multidisciplinary therapy for children.

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JACKSON -- Rebecca Laskin spent a decade as a sole practitioner speech/language pathologist. She started hiring other speech therapists in 1990. In 2003, she decided to broaden the scope of her practice by hiring occupational therapists, and then physical therapists were added in 2004. Now her Laskin Therapy Group allows families to have one place they can go for physical, speech and occupation therapy for special needs children.

Laskin said multidisciplinary treatments such as provided by her group, which has 23 speech/language, occupational and physical therapists on staff, are what make her practice unique, Children make greater strides when they receive co-treatment. As therapists from two or more disciplines work side-by-side with a child, the progress in each area increases exponentially.

"How wonderful we speech pathologists have found it to have occupational therapists and physical therapists to consult with or, even better yet, to co-treat with," Laskin said. "We found that even our most difficult...

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