Celebrating Every Child's Strength
Let’s Grow Together.
Nurturing Your Child’s Growth
Blume Therapy Services, located in Chattanooga, TN, offers assessment and therapeutic services for children facing developmental differences or other difficulties that seem to get in the way of everyday life. We specialize in working with children with autism, pediatric feeding challenges, fear/avoidance and behavior difficulties. We are dedicated to supporting families during their child’s developmental journey, providing expert, compassionate care at every step.
Why Blume
Specialized, comprehensive evaluations and tailored recommendations.
A strength-based approach to evaluation considering cognitive skills, attention, focus, and emotional development.
Specialized Knowledge
on Autism
Diagnostic evaluation with considerations of picky eating, Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD), and Avoidant Restrictive Intake Disorder (ARFID).
Tailored recommendations and careful consideration of what disciplines are needed for your child’s feeding team.
Individualized therapy to match the child’s needs and family priorities, delivered in episodes of care.
Specialized Knowledge on Feeding Difficulties
Helping You Support Your Child
Focus on moving towards the things that matter.
Learn skills to support your child in navigating life’s challenges to build skills and confidence.
Equips families with essential knowledge and resources.
Align with families to move toward their goals and priorities.
Facilitate active engagement with support systems.
Partnering with Families
Autism evaluation services are designed to better understand your child's communication, behavior, and interactions with others. Identify and access resources for continued support.
Areas of Focus:
Communication skills
Social interaction
Behavior
Strengths
Environmental challenges
Attention and focus
Activity level
Emotional development
Available Services
Autism Evaluations
Feeding Evaluation & Therapy
Feeding/eating evaluation and therapy services focus on understanding how your child’s history, skills, and routines are limiting intake and mealtime flexibility.
Focus of Intervention:
Assess and develop skills
Family-centered goals
Individualized strategies based on history, skills and goals
Increase confidence and mealtime flexibility
Avoidance & Behavior Challenges
Weekly sessions address childhood worries, avoidance, and behavior that interfere with everyday routines/quality of life. Intervention strategies combine caregiver coaching with CBT/ACT/behavior-based strategies to increase skills, confidence, independence, and resilience.
Focus of Intervention:
Caregiver support and coaching
Assess what leads to and maintains interfering behavior
Develop skills to minimize avoidance or interfering behavior
Schedule an intake call with one of our providers.
Please be prepared to discuss any active medical conditions that may impact your child’s health and day-to-day life. We ask that all children have up-to-date hearing and vision screenings.
What’s Next?
Let’s get to know you.
Note: For autism evaluations, please contact your pediatrician and request a referral for a hearing or vision exam before we begin our assessment. (A hearing and vision exam dated within the last two years will be accepted).
