Our daughter came to Cathie Wiggs of Playwrite with some issues with tracking with her eyes…read moreaffecting her schoolwork. Cathie helped her improve in this area, and with the improvement came a more confident girl ready to take on first grade. Cathie also helped our now seven year old with hand writing skills and core muscle strength and coordination in addition to enabling her to become more independent through practice planning her own curriculum. I'm not sure I fully understood the importance of occupational therapy until our experience at Playwrite, what a difference maker!

Thank goodness for Amy Hero at Playwrite Therapy. Our 4 year old son has apraxia of speech and…read moresensory integration issues. He had been in speech therapy for about six months before we began him in OT. Within a few short weeks of starting with Amy, we saw vast improvements in our son's speech and ability to take on new situations. We've been working with her for about 8 months, and our son is doing incredibly well. We could not be more pleased with his progress. It helps that he also adores her. If you suspect that your child would benefit from OT/sensory integration work, Amy Hero is the one to call.

We have LOVED Pinnacle Kidz for our baby who started at just 6 weeks! Dr Alexis is personable,…read moreknows her practice well, and so so great with my sweet baby boy who is having to do hard things. She makes him laugh, "talk," and enjoy his 45 minute sessions!

Highly recommend this place - everyone we met there was incredibly nice. We especially recommend…read moreSophia who was our daughter's physical therapist in her younger months (6 month ish range). We started going because our daughter seemed somewhat delayed in her milestones of sitting, crawling etc, and was exhibiting some hypotonic tendencies. Sophia was very patient with both my daughter and myself (as an anxious mama). We probably could have benefited from going for longer, but I just couldn't keep going with my work schedule and pulling my daughter our of daycare to make the appts (this wasn't a critical need). If we have any future physical therapy needs, we will definitely return!

My son worked with a therapist from Therapista for muscle strengthening in gross motor and fine…read moremotor development. It was great that Therapista offers home visits, which was convenient for our family. The therapist was really good at working with my picky toddler and getting him to do certain activities; she made the exercises fun. 1 star off: The only feedback for Therapista is that our therapist changed the time of every single one of our meetings, so it was difficult to get our toddler into a routine because the physical therapy sessions were on different days of the week and at different times of the day. The sessions are supposed to be 50 minutes long, but a few of our sessions were curtailed due to the therapist's personal issues. At the end, my son is doing much better now, so I am glad that we used Therapista. Without them, he probably still does not have the fine motor skills to pick his nose or something!

Therapista provided physical therapy services for my prematurely born son from a very early age…read moreuntil he was almost two years old. Krystyna, our therapist, was fantastic in both her knowledge and her demeanor. She's so good with young children, I feel like she was born to do her job. My son is now caught up, so we've stopped sessions but we miss our time with her.

We have been seeing Caroline at Katz for a few years and we absolutely love her! Easy to work with,…read moregreat communication, office is nice and parking is easy. Would highly recommend.

We had an incredible experience working with Shelly Parks, or Teacher Shelly, as our 4 year-old…read morecalled her, for over a year (Sep 2024-Dec 2025). Shelly was instrumental in helping our son meaningfully improve his speech, and helping us realize there were other issues at play in his ear/ nose/ throat system - that were causing significant fluid retention and drainage problems, hearing loss, ear pain, poor sleep, irritability, and more, thus impacting his speech and behavior. Thanks to Shelly, we were able to figure all of this out, get our son the help he needed, and, a year later, we have a transformed kid. What made Shelly a great speech therapist for our son? Shelly is very observant, noticing fine details we did not (including the broader ENT issue I described earlier); she worked at our kid's level - really meeting him where he was, being flexible (he can be stubborn!) but also clear and firm to ensure progression. Shelly has a kind demeanor, accepting our son for who he is, making him feel welcomed so he felt supported to learn (there were days when he'd refuse to go to school b/c he didn't feel comfortable there but he was always thrilled to go see "Teacher Shelly"). She took a very methodical, thorough and collaborative approach with us - tracking his progression with regular speech samples and communicating suggestions for us to incorporate into our interactions with our son. And finally, she really cared about his well-being. There was a point when our son's speech, hearing and behavior issues were causing challenges for him at school. We were unsuccessful at convincing his preschool teacher that it wasn't just bad behavior but a host of other interrelated challenges we were working on with him. They had just decided he was a troublemaker. When I shared this with Shelly, she was concerned they were getting him so wrong. She talked to them and helped them change their perspective, take what we were saying seriously, and become much better partners in our son's development and growth as a result. Shelly is an incredible speech-language pathologist. I'd recommend her to anyone - and especially to parents of young kids struggling with their speaking comprehension and hearing. There isn't enough I can say. Thank you, Shelly, for everything.

The team at World of OT crew are children-whisperers. They are able to deeply understand the…read moremotivations and challenges of a client, and work with them to become self-aware of those situations and practice using tools for overcoming them. World of OT's unique approach is that they will come to the child in their every day lives, such as at school or at home, and that means they're able to directly contextualize those observations and tools to what the client is actually going through. I highly recommend working with them for any kid that needs OT!

I am incredibly grateful for the outstanding support and expertise Liza has provided as my…read moredaughter's occupational therapist. Her dedication and professionalism have significantly contributed to my daughter's progress and well-being. Liza's patience, creativity, and personalized approach have been exceptional. She consistently demonstrates a deep understanding of my daughter's unique needs and crafts sessions that are both engaging and effective. Her ability to connect and communicate has made a world of difference, fostering a positive and encouraging environment. The WOOT interface is really easy to use, and Tiffany is amazingly responsive! World of OT is top notch.

20 years ago I saw Candy a the St Mary's OT department for a problem with my neck…read more Fast forward to 2019 I had another neck problem. I called the St Mary's OT department four times to schedule an evaluation but always got through to voice mail and my calls were never returned. I was about to scheduled with another provider because I wasn't sure if Candy even worked at St Mary's any longer and it was just too difficult to schedule an evaluation appointment. Persevering, I use the physician's office option when I called the OT office number and finally managed to speak with a human. I was amazed that Candy still works there and was available to evaluate and treat me. Candy is a superb and highly experience therapist. She spent a lot of time listening to the explanation of my neck problem and examining me. We set up 6 appointments where she manipulated my neck and showed me exercises I could do to stop my chiropractor visits and prevent the neck pain. The result is that I no longer have any neck pain and no more visits to the chiropractor. I would give 5 stars for the therapy I received but reduced to 4 overall because of the difficulty in reaching a human being to schedule my evaluation appointment.

Good luck getting someone to answer the phone or get an appointment. Recovery and rehabilitation…read moreare timely, this is not the place don't wait.

My 3-year-old daughter worked with Ms. Abril for six months, focusing on improving her expressive…read morelanguage. Each session was incredibly personalized. From the very first meeting, when my daughter immediately felt comfortable and jumped into Ms. Abril's lap, it was clear we were in the right place. Ms. Abril excels at allowing children to lead and building on their language. Furthermore, she provided valuable insights into our daughter's language processing style and offered practical guidance on how to support her language development at home. We are extremely impressed with the quality of speech therapy provided and are very thankful to have been referred to Tulips Speech Therapy on Union St.

We had such an amazing experience with Tulips! Highly recommend this practice - their therapists…read moreand truly top notch. A huge special shout out to Madison - she's been absolutely incredible with our 2.5 year old and goes out of her way to make each and every session engaging, thoughtful, and meaningful! We can truly feel her passionate for this field! Our kiddo typically gets weary in new settings and new people, but he is always absolutely ecstatic to go to Tulips and see Madison. We've seen so much development in his speech since he's started! Thank you to this amazing team :)

Our son made rapid progress working with Sydney and the team here. The quality is excellent, and…read morethe operational scheduling/billing are also super smooth. We strongly recommend SF Speech Therapy

Having a baby is already hard, but having a baby that needs help with feeding is something that no…read moreone can prepare you for. After a 6 week stay in the NICU, and a G-Tube placement, we started feeding therapy with Teresa through the Golden Gate Regional Center. During our time in the hospital and just after, we met with a number of feeding therapists that were next to no help with us. It was frustrating and sad, especially as new mom. When I met Teresa, I told her upfront that I was having a hard time and that I needed someone that could really help us get to a place where we could wean off our feeding tube. Nearly a year later, my daughter has been tube-free for almost five months, and has been mostly oral for about nine months. So much of our progress has been because of the help I got from Teresa. She has amazing patience, and really listens to what you're saying and offers useful and constructive ways to help. Nothing about it is forced, and along the way, there's also a gentleness in her approach to moving to the next steps. Of all our early intervention providers, Teresa is the one person I really wanted to meet with on a weekly basis because I knew there'd be constructive and helpful takeaways from our meetings. We recently had to relocate out of the state, and I am incredibly sad that I couldn't bring Teresa with us. Hopefully this means that Teresa can now help another family in the same way that she helped ours. Thank you Teresa and SF Speech!