Access to the Right Service at the Right Time
Let’s Grow Together.
Service Offerings
Timely access to services is essential for family health and well-being. We aim to provide a compassionate and professional process that aligns with family priorities and goals to support their child’s development or behavior.
Autism Evaluations
Autism evaluation services are designed to understand your child's social communication, interactions and behavior. The evaluation aims to help identify resources for continued growth and support.
Communication skills
Social interaction
Behavior
Strengths and Challenges
Focus of Evaluation
Attention and Focus
Activity Level
Emotional Development
You have concerns for your child’s social interaction, communication, and behavior and:
You want to better understand your child and/or identify and gain access to support services.
You have not had a previous formal evaluation for autism/autism spectrum disorder.
Is This Right For Your Family?
Step 1: Schedule a free 15-minute video or phone consultation to ensure services match your needs.
Step 2: Attend three to four visits with a provider during the evaluation process.
The first visit will focus on goal setting and gathering medical, developmental, and educational information about your child.
The next 1-2 visit(s) will be spent with your child and engaging in structured activities, play, and conversation to understand better how your child thinks, responds, and interacts with others.
The final visit will be dedicated to review findings and discuss recommendations with caregivers.
What to Expect?
Pediatric Feeding Evaluations & Therapy
Feeding evaluation and therapy services aim to understand how your child’s history, skills, and routines are limiting intake during mealtime. Intervention is a process of developing strategies to increase flexibility with trying new foods and mealtime routines that make sense for your family and increase your child’s comfort level with eating more healthfully.
Assess and develop skills
Individualized strategies based on history, skills and goals
Increase skills, confidence, and mealtime flexibility
Focus of Intervention
You have concerns about your child’s intake.
Mealtimes are consistently a stressful part of your or your child’s day.
Your pediatrician has noted concerns with your child’s growth, variety of intake, or skills with eating AND thinks feeding therapy is a good idea at this time.
You are looking for guidance to support your child and make changes during mealtime and home routines.
Is This Right For Your Family?
Step 1: Schedule a free 15-minute video or phone consultation to ensure services match your needs.
Step 2: Initial Diagnostic and Evaluation in clinic
This first in-person visit will focus on goal setting and gathering medical, developmental, and educational information about your child.
Your child’s feeding skills will be observed and assessed, and if needed referrals for another discipline to join your child’s feeding team will be discussed.
A formal report with any relevant diagnoses, resources, and individualized recommendations will be provided (this may include the option of ongoing feeding therapy with Blume Therapy Services).
Step 3: Intervention with Individualized Feeding Therapy with Blume Therapy Services
Strategies for intervention will be matched to your child’s presentation, needs, and family’s goals and priorities.
Both the child and caregiver will be actively involved in the feeding treatment and will be asked to practice strategies at home between visits.
Ongoing individualized therapy is typically recommended for an episode of 12 sessions at a time.
After the completion of the episode, skills and priorities are reevaluated with the family to determine if continued therapy is needed. It is common for patients to continue for 1-3 episodes of care (12 - 36 sessions). The total duration of treatment varies based on the starting level of skills, goals/priorities, and individual response to treatment.
What to expect?
Avoidance & Behavior Challenges
Focus of Intervention
Caregiver support and coaching
Assess what factors lead to and maintain interfering behavior
Development skills so avoidance or interfering behavior is no longer needed
Values and motivation for change
Is this Right For Your Family?
Caregivers are willing to be actively involved in the treatment process
Caregivers are willing to take active steps toward making changes at home
Caregivers are willing to practice relevant skills between visits or support their child in completing relevant assignments
What to Expect?
Step 1: Schedule a free 15-minute video or phone consultation to ensure services match your needs.
Step 2: Initial Diagnostic Interview in the clinic with caregivers only to understand the relevant developmental/medical history, background surrounding current concerns, and goals in seeking services.
Step 3: Visit with child and caregivers jointly to get to know the child and better understand his/her perspective, preferences and goals.
Step 4: Individualized therapy with Blume Therapy Services
Strategies for intervention will be matched to your child’s development, needs as well as the family’s goals and priorities.
Caregiver will be actively involved in treatment
Intervention will involve strategies to be practiced at home between visits.
Ongoing individualized therapy is typically recommended for an episode of 12 sessions at a time.
After the completion of the episode, skills and priorities are reevaluated with the family to determine if continued therapy is needed. It is common for patients to continue for 1-2 episodes of care (12 - 24 sessions). The total duration of treatment varies based on the starting level of skills, goals/priorities, and individual response to treatment.
Service Fees
All services are self-pay
We do not accept insurance at this time. If your insurance plan includes an out-of-network reimbursement benefit, a superbill can be provided at your request. Coverage varies across plans, we recommend you call your insurance company to inquire if this is an option for your family.
We accept TN Part B Katie Beckett Waiver or Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
Credit cards or checks are acceptable forms of payment.
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).
