Pediatric Therapy Services in Anchorage, AK

Every child learns, grows, and communicates in their own unique way. At Growing Possibilities Pediatric Therapy LLC, Mary provides compassionate, family-centered speech-language, feeding, and myofunctional therapy for children from birth through adolescence. She believes therapy is most effective when children feel engaged, motivated, and supported. By incorporating play-based learning and meaningful activities into every session, Mary builds on each child’s unique strengths and interests while helping them develop skills that support meaningful participation in everyday life.

🥄 Feeding Therapy 

At Growing Possibilities Pediatric Therapy LLC, Mary understands that feeding is about much more than eating—it is an essential part of a child’s growth, development, health, and family life. She provides compassionate, family-centered feeding and swallowing evaluations and therapy for children from birth through adolescence. Mary partners with families to address each child’s unique needs and create positive, meaningful mealtime experiences.

Whether your child is experiencing challenges with breastfeeding, bottle feeding, transitioning to solids, chewing, swallowing, or expanding the variety of foods they eat, Mary works closely with your family to explore factors contributing to these difficulties. She develops individualized, evidence-based treatment plans and provides practical strategies that support feeding success at home, at school, and in the community.

Mary Supports Children Who:

✔ Experience difficulty with breastfeeding or bottle feeding

✔ Experience oral-motor, sensory, or behavioral feeding challenges

✔ Have difficulty transitioning to purées, solid foods, or age-appropriate textures

✔ Eat a limited variety of foods or avoid certain textures

✔ Have sensory sensitivities that affect eating or participation in mealtimes

✔ Have difficulty chewing, drinking, or swallowing safely

✔ Need support developing oral-motor skills for eating and drinking

✔ Have concerns related to growth, nutrition, or mealtime participation

Mary’s goal is to help children develop the skills and confidence needed to eat and drink safely, participate more fully in family mealtimes, and build positive relationships with food. By partnering with families and building on each child’s strengths, she supports parents and caregivers throughout every step of their feeding journey.

👅  Myofunctional Therapy

Myofunctional therapy helps children develop healthy oral movement patterns that support breathing, feeding, swallowing, speech, sleep, and overall well-being. Mary provides individualized, family-centered therapy that addresses the function and coordination of the tongue, lips, jaw, and facial muscles. Through engaging, age-appropriate activities, she builds on each child’s strengths while helping them develop skills that support healthy oral rest posture, nasal breathing, chewing, swallowing, and speech production in everyday life. 

At Growing Possibilities Pediatric Therapy LLC, Mary understands that the way a child breathes, rests their tongue, chews, swallows, and speaks can affect everyday functioning and overall well-being. Myofunctional therapy focuses on developing healthy, coordinated patterns of movement involving the tongue, lips, jaw, and facial muscles. Mary provides compassionate, family-centered evaluations and individualized therapy for children, partnering with families to support each child’s unique strengths, needs, and goals.

Whether your child is working on nasal breathing, oral rest posture, lip closure, tongue movement, chewing, swallowing, or speech-related oral movements, Mary works closely with your family to identify areas of strength and difficulty, develop an individualized treatment plan, and provide practical strategies that support carryover at home and in everyday routines. When appropriate, she also collaborates with dentists, orthodontists, ENTs, physicians, and other members of the child’s care team.

Mary Supports Children Who:

✔ Breathe through their mouth or have difficulty maintaining nasal breathing

✔ Demonstrate an open-mouth resting posture

✔ Have difficulty achieving appropriate tongue-resting posture

✔ Experience difficulty with lip closure or oral muscle coordination

✔ Demonstrate tongue-thrust or atypical swallowing patterns

✔ Have difficulty chewing or managing food efficiently

✔ Experience speech sound difficulties related to oral movement patterns

✔ Engage in prolonged oral habits, such as thumb-sucking or pacifier use

✔ Need support before or after a tongue-tie or lip-tie procedure, in collaboration with their medical or dental providers

✔ Are receiving orthodontic treatment and need support developing healthy oral patterns

✔ Experience drooling or difficulty managing saliva

✔ Benefit from improved coordination of the tongue, lips, jaw, and facial muscles

Mary’s goal is to help children develop healthy, functional oral patterns that support breathing, feeding, swallowing, speech, sleep, and everyday well-being. By partnering with families, collaborating with other professionals, and building on each child’s strengths, she creates meaningful opportunities for lasting growth and success.