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Functional Friends Fostering connection, confidence and real life skills.
🎈Therapy: direct therapy services (OT • SLP)
✨ Foundation: free nonprofit programs & events

Mark your calendars! ✨Functional Friends is partnering with City BBQ in Centerville for a fundraiser, and we would love ...
10/13/2026

Mark your calendars! ✨

Functional Friends is partnering with City BBQ in Centerville for a fundraiser, and we would love your support!

If you’re planning to grab lunch or dinner on October 29th, stop by City BBQ and help support our mission of creating meaningful connections and inclusive opportunities for children with special needs. ❤️

Here’s all you have to do:
📍 Visit the Centerville City BBQ location
🍴 Order your meal
🗣️ Mention Functional Friends or present the flyer below!

Your support helps us continue offering FREE social groups, community events, and opportunities for children of all abilities to build friendships and feel a sense of belonging.

Please share this post and help spread the word! Thank you for supporting Functional Friends and helping us show that Community Matters. 💛

Our goal isn’t to eliminate big feelings. It’s to help children develop the tools they need to navigate them with greate...
10/08/2026

Our goal isn’t to eliminate big feelings.

It’s to help children develop the tools they need to navigate them with greater confidence and independence.

Play with a purpose. 🤍Occupational therapy can look like games, movement, and everyday activities, but behind every mome...
10/05/2026

Play with a purpose. 🤍

Occupational therapy can look like games, movement, and everyday activities, but behind every moment is an opportunity to build skills for real life. From communication and emotional regulation to motor skills, flexibility, and independence, we meet each child where they are and help them grow from there.

Because no two kids need exactly the same thing and that’s the point.

POV: you just found your fall plans 🎃🍂 Come hang with Functional Friends for our Fall Fest on October 17th from 2–4 PM! ...
09/30/2026

POV: you just found your fall plans 🎃🍂

Come hang with Functional Friends for our Fall Fest on October 17th from 2–4 PM! Food, games, fall fun, and plenty of reasons to celebrate the season together. 🤎

Costumes are encouraged!

We can’t wait to see you!

Mealtime is doing a lot more than we give it credit for. 🤍Before a child ever takes a bite, their body is already workin...
09/23/2026

Mealtime is doing a lot more than we give it credit for. 🤍

Before a child ever takes a bite, their body is already working—processing the smell, texture, temperature, color, and sounds around them, while also sitting upright, coordinating their hands, bringing food to their mouth, chewing, and swallowing.

So when a child is labeled a “picky eater,” sometimes there’s more going on than simply not liking a food.

Sensory processing, oral motor skills, posture, coordination, and regulation can all play a role in how eating feels.

When mealtimes are hard, we want to get curious about the why behind the behavior, not just focus on getting another bite in.

Pediatric occupational therapy goes far beyond handwriting and fine motor skills. OT looks at the everyday moments that ...
09/16/2026

Pediatric occupational therapy goes far beyond handwriting and fine motor skills. OT looks at the everyday moments that are hard—getting dressed, tolerating certain sounds or textures, moving through transitions, regulating big emotions, eating, playing, participating at school, and becoming more independent.

The question isn’t simply, “Can my child do it?” It’s: Can they participate in the everyday activities they need and want to do without those moments consistently feeling overwhelming or out of reach?

That’s where OT can help. 🤍

If everyday routines are harder than you’d expect and are getting in the way of life at home, school, or in the community, it may be worth exploring pediatric OT.

Big feelings don’t need smaller boundaries. They need connection. When a child is overwhelmed, their nervous system may ...
09/14/2026

Big feelings don’t need smaller boundaries. They need connection.

When a child is overwhelmed, their nervous system may not be ready for a lesson, consequence, or problem-solving conversation. Connection can help them feel safe enough to regulate and regulation creates space for learning.

That doesn’t mean ignoring unsafe or inappropriate behavior.

It can sound like:
❤️ “I can see how angry you are.”
✋ “I won’t let you hit.”
🤍 “I’m right here while your body calms down.”

Connect → Regulate → Correct.

Let’s bust some therapy myths. There are a lot of misconceptions about was looks like. The truth? Sometimes the simple...
09/08/2026

Let’s bust some therapy myths.

There are a lot of misconceptions about was looks like.

The truth? Sometimes the simplest activities are helping build skills your child can use every single day.

We don’t want to erase the things that make a child unique.We want to help them build a life where they can participate,...
09/03/2026

We don’t want to erase the things that make a child unique.

We want to help them build a life where they can participate, connect, grow, and feel confident being exactly who they are.

The goal isn’t sameness.

It’s access. Independence. Connection. Self-advocacy. Belonging. 🤍

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9095 Washington Church Road
Miamisburg, OH
45342

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