Kara Dodds & Associates

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Kara Dodds & Associates operates a pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy center in Santee from Suite 220 on Magnolia Avenue. Established in 2001, the practice employs PROMPT motor-speech treatment and Picture Exchange Communication Systems for children diagnosed with apraxia and autism spectrum disorder, coordinating developmental milestones with referring pediatricians at Children's Primary Care Medical Group Santee on Cuyamaca Street. Occupational therapy sessions address sensory processing disorder, fine and gross motor deficits, and feeding aversions using the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum and TalkTools muscle-based oral motor programs. The Santee location serves as one of three clinic sites across San Diego County, each staffed by licensed and certified clinicians trained in the SCERTS Model and Michelle Garcia Winner's Social Thinking methodology. Physical therapy interventions target torticollis, developmental coordination disorder, and postural instability, with orofacial myofunctional assessments paralleling the interceptive orthodontic evaluations performed at Coastal Kids Dentistry & Orthodontics on Town Center Parkway.