Through innovative group and 1:1 services, KidSHINE facilitates and enhances development and helps each child to uncover their individual strengths! Treatment.
Blending Pediatric OT and high intensity exercise. Evaluations. Groups. Home of the evidence based EXERSHINEkids POWER Bootcamp Program!
04/20/2026
Sign up for KidSHINE Summer Camps ☀️
A fun, active summer where kids explore movement, games, creativity, and teamwork while building confidence, friendships, and lasting memories.
Spots are limited,join us for a summer full of fun and SHINE ✨
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04/17/2026
🌟OT Month Spotlight🌟 Get to know Ms. Ashley!
04/16/2026
Sign up for KidSHINE Bootcamp ✨
An OT designed program built to help kids build strength, coordination, confidence, and social skills through fun, movement-based activities. Spots are limited, join us today!
04/10/2026
This is BOOST. 🌟
Created by KidSHINE. Built by OTs. Designed for real classrooms.
For the past 6 years, we’ve been developing and refining BOOST (Bringing Organic Opportunities to Students and Teachers) with one goal in mind: reinfusing development into the daily school routine in ways that are practical, sustainable, and empowering.
Through BOOST, we help teachers embed core strength, fine motor, gross motor, sensory motor, reflex integration and visual motor foundations right into the flow of the day, not as “one more thing,” but as part of how learning happens.
We’ve had the privilege of partnering with multiple schools over the past 6 years and witnessing meaningful growth in students, and just as importantly, renewed confidence and inspiration in educators.
In honor of OT Month, we’re highlighting how our OTs show up in the community- thinking beyond the therapy room, collaborating in real time, and using a developmental lens to create lasting impact.
We are currently booking schools for the 2026–2027 school year.
If you’re an educator or administrator who wants to learn more about BOOST, we’d love to connect.
This is OT at KidSHINE.
Innovative. Collaborative. Community-centered.
04/06/2026
New therapy assistant just dropped 🐢💚
Our Eastern box turtle is helping us build patience, attention, and gentle awareness—one slow moment at a time
04/05/2026
Happy Easter! 🌷🐰
From fine motor egg hunts to sensory spring fun, we love celebrating the little moments that help our kids grow, learn, and shine. 💛
04/03/2026
04/02/2026
Today is World Autism Acceptance Day 💙
At KidSHINE, we celebrate unique strengths, perspectives, and individuality. Acceptance means creating spaces where people feel understood, supported, and free to be exactly who they are.
We’re proud to help build skills, confidence, and meaningful connections—while honoring what makes each person them.
03/31/2026
Big goals, big energy, BIG celebration 💪🎉
When one of our kiddos crushed a goal at home, Amy made a promise… 50 burpees!
To keep things fair (and fun), they made a deal: for every 10 burpees, he would do 10 mountain climbers.
With a full cheer squad of rehab aides and friends behind them, they BOTH powered through all 50 🙌
The best part? That moment at the end—counting together, pure excitement, and the biggest smile when they hit 50 ❤️
This is what motivation, teamwork, and celebrating wins looks like 💥
03/30/2026
✏️ It’s just a pencil… or is it?
In occupational therapy, how a child holds a pencil can make a big difference in comfort, control, and confidence with writing!
You might notice different types of grips—some that make writing harder (like a full fist or wrapped thumb), and others that support better control and less fatigue.
The good news? There are simple ways to help improve pencil grip:
• Use short pencils or broken crayons to naturally encourage a stronger grasp
• Try adaptive pencil grips for extra support
• Focus on hand strength and fine motor play (think playdough, tweezers, clothespins!)
• Practice activities that build in-hand manipulation, like flipping or rotating a pencil
Remember—every child develops at their own pace, and with the right support, those skills will grow! 💛
KidSHINE LearningThroughPlay
03/27/2026
Big skills in a small moment 💛
This little one is working hard on balance and coordination while standing on a stepping stone and tossing rings onto a cone. We love how this activity challenges her core strength, motor planning, and hand-eye coordination all at once!
With a little guidance, she even started practicing throwing with one hand—building those bilateral coordination skills and confidence step by step 🙌
Play-based therapy at its best… learning, growing, and having fun all at the same time ✨
KidSHINE GrowingStrong TherapyThroughPlay
03/21/2026
During our Wednesday Fit Teens Bootcamp, we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day with our silly sock challenge 💙💛🧦
Fit Teens is all about building confidence, staying active, and creating a space where every kid feels included, supported, and proud of who they are. Today was such a special reminder of that!
Each child left with a note reminding them just how impactful, strong, and loved they are. We are so grateful to be part of their journey and to celebrate what makes each of them unique.
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Our Story: KidSHINE LLC- Building Strength, Health, Independence and Nurturing Empowerment
KidSHINE (formerly Kidstrong LLC) is an innovative pediatric OT private practice, founded by Amy Wheadon, MS, OTR/L in 2015. KidSHINE is designed to empower children to discover outer and inner strengths: to build strong bodies, strong minds, strong hearts and allow each child to SHINE. We offer 1:1 OT services for children who need individualized support for functional independence and success both in school and at home. KidSHINE has also pioneered a unique group strengthening "bootcamp" program that is designed and taught by our licensed and NBCOT certified pediatric OTs.
KidSHINE bootcamp classes:
target core strengthening, balance, motor coordination and upper body strength,
foster peer cooperation and critical thinking skills,
facilitate improved functional outcomes by targeting self regulation skills and
most importantly, enhance confidence in all participants
We have been offering our services and bootcamp programs since the fall of 2015, and we moved to our beautiful new facility in May of 2017. KidSHINE offers bootcamp classes for all ages and ability levels, including preschool (Mini Kiddos), elementary aged students (Strong Kids 1- Recreational, Strong Kids 2 Therapeutic, Brain Games for Executive Functioning), and middle school aged students. We also offer a Girls Empowerment Program for Girls in Kindergarten through 8th grade, where we help girls of all ages to love their bodies and to feel strong, proud and confident. KidSHINE also hosts a crossover early intervention group (Tiny Titans), mom vs kids pop up classes, and Strong Moms classes twice weekly. KidSHINE will also host your child's next birthday party in our space- parties are highly structured, sensory friendly, and run by licensed, adult therapists. KidSHINE also offers off site community preschool programs and teacher workshops and trainings.