Outdoor Kids Occupational Therapy Group in Madison, Wisconsin

Your child will build motor skills, grow more confident, make friends, and connect with nature in our Outdoor Kids OT group! Children never know it’s therapy…they just think it’s FUN!

All groups are led by licensed occupational therapy practitioners who are certified in the ConTiGO (Connection & Transformation in the Great Outdoors) Approach, a science-backed methodology for providing outdoor therapy for children.

Our therapy groups are intentionally formed by our therapists based on the children’s needs. Groups consist of 3-5 children who are receiving OT services to address motor skills, attention, social skills, and/or sensory processing.

Outdoor Kids OT Groups help kids grow:

RATES for Wisconsin Group Services

Our group packages include all of the above elements because every single one is critical to getting great outcomes from group therapy. Current rates are:

-Registration fee - $60

-Pre-group initial OT assessment (required yearly) - $149.

-Re-assessment (includes parent call and progress report at end of each semester) - $149.

-Group services - $22 per 15 minutes.

-1:1 consult calls with therapists - $33 per 15 minutes.

All groups run as a year-long program with holiday breaks.

Payment for Outdoor Kids OT Groups

We are a private pay therapy practice because this allows us freedom to practice in a family-centered way, offering comprehensive packages of services that would not all be reimbursable by medical health insurance.

If you have out-of-network benefits through your medical insurance, we offer superbills (paid-in-full invoices) should you wish to submit to your health insurance after services have been provided.

We allow families to pay for services in installments of smaller monthly payments over the course of the program.

We offer scholarships for low-to-moderate income families when funding is available. Please indicate this need on your application and we will get in touch to discuss the scholarship process after your application for services is received.

Many of you are asking: “Do you take the CLTS waiver?”

Unfortunately, we applied to be a provider for the Children Long-Term Support (CLTS) Waiver and were denied because our services are skilled therapy services, which are not covered under the waiver program.

To be a good fit for our groups, we look for children to:

1.) Stay within 10-20 feet of the group.

2.) Follow verbal or visual directions. (Most of the time. We know kids are kids!) 😊

3.) Participate at their own level without demonstrating behaviors that significantly and repeatedly disrupt the experience of other children in the group.

4.) Have basic safety awareness to be in a wild, unpredictable nature setting with an adult nearby but NOT always within arm’s reach.

Group therapy is truly different from individual therapy. In a group therapy model, the needs of the overall group are prioritized over the needs of any one individual. This is why our therapists form our therapy groups intentionally, based on a review of each child’s application to determine goodness-of-fit in a particular group.

If you have questions about goodness-of-fit for your child, fill out the application and we’ll review it together.

Application Process for Outdoor Kids OT Groups

We fill our groups through an application process rather than direct open enrollment to the public. This is part of our therapeutic process and allows us to intentionally form groups that are balanced for the needs of each child in the group.

All details on current group services are in the application.

If we do not have a group spot for your child at this time, your application will remain on the waitlist for your chosen groups. You will be notified via email if a spot opens up later on. We add services and hire staff based on our waitlists.

It is free to apply.

All you have to do is fill out the application and our admin team will be in touch via email.