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Building Relationships. Sharing Joy. Providing Results.

Joy Therapy and Learning Center is a pediatric therapy practice in Cumming, Georgia, serving children from birth to 21 and their families across four counties.

Six children of different ages sitting in a row on a bench, laughing together

Who we are

We are an experienced and highly trained pediatric therapy staff working under one roof in Cumming. Our clinicians deliver physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, oral motor and feeding therapy and ABA therapy, along with comprehensive evaluations and home-based early intervention through Georgia’s Babies Can’t Wait program.

Having every discipline in one building is not only convenient. It changes the clinical work. When a child receives speech, occupational and physical therapy here, the clinicians involved talk to each other, often on the same day. Goals are written so they reinforce one another rather than pulling in different directions, and families are not left relaying information between providers who have never met.

Parents are partners

This is the belief the practice is built on, and it is the thing families tell us made the difference.

Your child spends less than an hour a week with a therapist and the rest of the week with you. That ratio decides outcomes more than any clinical technique does. So our job is not only to work with your child, it is to teach you what we are doing and why, and to hand it over so it keeps happening at home.

In practice that means you are in the room rather than the waiting area. Your therapist will model a strategy, then coach you through trying it while they are still there to adjust what you are doing. You should leave with a small number of specific things to build into ordinary routines: meals, bath time, the car, getting dressed. Small numbers are deliberate. A family handed ten strategies does none of them.

Parents feel empowered and supported, and children achieve milestones that many thought were not possible.

What we are working toward

Our objective is for every child to achieve maximum independence, so they can experience the same opportunities and quality of life as other children. That is a long-range goal, and it is measured in what a family can do on an ordinary Tuesday rather than in a score.

Three principles carry it. We build relationships, because a family that does not trust us will not tell us what is really happening at home. We share joy, because milestones that took a year of work deserve to be celebrated properly. And we provide results, which means we measure, we show you the data, and we change a plan that is not working instead of repeating it.

Our culture

Five things we hold ourselves to

These are the values we hire against and the ones we are willing to be measured on.

We hire exceptional people

Our team keeps a positive attitude and takes personal responsibility for the success and satisfaction of every family we work with.

We make a difference

We are compassionate, helpful and respectful, and we go to extraordinary lengths to improve the lives of children and families.

Our culture is cooperative

Our environment is informal, friendly and fun. We welcome educated conversation about therapeutic direction and solve problems together.

Our culture is empowering

We offer flexibility, value a healthy work and life balance, and build roles around each person's individual strengths.

We are Joy

We challenge ourselves to stay innovative and to adapt our strategies whenever it makes us more effective toward a child's goals.

Our team

Licensed clinicians who specialize in children

Meet the full team

Ready to talk about your child?

Our intake team can answer your questions, check your insurance benefits and help you work out which service fits.

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