For Special Education & District Administrators

Providing Exceptional Speech, Occupational, and Physical Therapy Services for Southern California Schools

Want to learn more? Contact our Director, Laura Agyeman M.S., CCC-SLP.

With Radiant Kids Therapy, you have a therapy partner who empowers kids to shine their brightest and succeed at school.

School districts choose to partner with Radiant Kids Therapy because we provide:

A streamlined process with a single point person

to meet your district’s SLP, OT and PT needs, support your district objectives, and maintain compliance.

Exceptional pediatric SLPs, OTs, & PTs

who can meet the needs of your school and provide effective, compassionate therapy services.

Therapist-to-therapist support

to ensure every clinician is compliant and successful in their role as a school-based therapist in your district.

Consistent therapy services

through anticipated and unanticipated staffing needs.

Here’s What Your District Can Expect From Us:

Tenable assessments to build IEPs that support individual student needs.
Dedication to follow and defend the California and Federal Special Education eligibility criteria.
Supportive of student educational needs by understanding your curriculum and collaborating with teachers and parents.
A team with experience in navigating situations with advocates and high-profile cases.
The SLP, OT, or PT who serves your school will collaborate with your team and follow your district processes.
Therapists with access to high-quality resources and local, on-site mentoring for the legal and clinical aspects of working in schools.

This is life-changing work that matters! Don’t feel like you need to settle when it comes to providing top-quality SLP, OT, and PT services that support your students’ learning. With a therapist from Radiant Kids Therapy, you’re going to get the best in terms of compliance, clinical excellence, and collaboration.

A Pediatric Therapy Partner Your District Can Trust

As a small, local, SLP-operated company, we’re not a large therapy staffing company that’s headquartered in another state. We’re dedicated to providing excellent therapy and customized service alongside our partners and communities here in Southern California.

Non-Public Agency (NPA) – We hold this required certification from the State of California. We maintain this certification by following all federal and state standards for special education including proper oversight, compliance, and completing fingerprinting, credentialing, and professional licensing.
Rooted in Southern California – We’re a local pediatric therapy company that has served thousands of kids and families in Southern California since 2018.
Leadership That “Gets It.” – We’re led by Laura Agyeman, an SLP who worked in schools for several years. She brings a deep understanding of school-based services, SPED eligibility criteria, district compliance & collaboration, and working with high-profile cases. As the company leader, she is dedicated to hiring and supporting only the best clinicians to meet your district’s needs and working with you to ensure you are satisfied with the services our therapists provide.
Clinical Support & Supervision – Our local clinical team supports each therapist with on-site, hands-on mentoring and supervision. Any new therapists or Clinical Fellows are supervised by the experienced team at Radiant Kids at no additional cost to the school district. When it comes to supporting SLP Clinical Fellows, we provide double the California State Board required supervision hours to give the best possible support.
Talented Team – Our therapists are responsible for maintaining our high standards of excellence and professionalism. We hire only the best therapists who understand school-based therapy, are great with kids, and are professional and knowledgeable. All together, our team members can be depended upon to provide the quality, effective services your students deserve.

Let us provide the expertise in school-based pediatric therapy so you can focus on everything else that goes into running your school.

Snapshot of School Contract Services

Types of services we offer:

Speech-Language Pathology (SLP)
Assistive Technology/Augmentative-Alternative Communications (AT/AAC)
Occupational Therapy (OT)
Physical Therapy (PT)
IEPs
IEEs

Filling school-contracts for:

Easy Access, Personalized Service

We’re a local, SLP-owned and operated company, not a huge staffing company juggling tons of schools and therapists. When you have a question or challenge, nothing beats the ability to pick up the phone and talk to someone you know and trust.

Fill your position with the RIGHT person

You don’t have to work with a recruiter or sort through resumes.

You’ll be connected with our school liaison, who will match your needs with the right therapist.

Our therapists live locally and are hired with the intention of long-term relationships. Stability for them means stability for you.

Processes for compliance & finances

We make it easy for you by:

Maintaining the financial contract & documentation
Supporting the individual documentation needs of your district
Fulfilling NPA Certification & Documentation requirements
Staying up-to-date on Medicaid billing to maximize your reimbursement
Completing independent documentation reviews with a focus on accuracy and defensibility

Open Communication

You’ll work directly with a point person who is available to support the district and the clinician placed with your district.

At the start of the contract, we coordinate with your team to ensure a smooth transition.

Throughout your contract, we’ll make it easy for you to provide direct feedback to ensure we’re meeting your needs and addressing challenges head-on.

Our Service Area for School Therapy Contracts in Southern California

We’re available to provide on-site SLP, OT, and PT services throughout Southern California, currently in San Diego County and Riverside County, soon to include additional parts of Southern CA.

To explore contracting with Radiant Kids Therapy, email our Director, Laura Agyeman M.S., CCC-SLP.

FAQs

1. What is a certified NPA and does Radiant Kids Therapy meet this criteria?

Certified NPA stands for Certified Non-Public Agency. In California, private organizations with this certification can provide special education or related services on behalf of a school district.

Yes, Radiant Kids Therapy is a certified NPA and maintains all licenses and records to comply with ongoing oversight from the State of California. This program was set up to allow districts to contract out certain services to meet budget or staffing needs while ensuring students with disabilities receive high-quality services.

2. What background checks are completed on therapists before filling a contract?

We take care of completing the background verification for all of our therapists. This includes verifying licenses and credentials, plus performing DOJ and FBI fingerprinting and background checks. This is part of the process we need to perform for our NPA certification.

3. What insurance does your company provide to cover the therapists filling this contract?

Radiant Kids Therapy carries active liability insurance, malpractice insurance, and workers’ compensation insurance policies. If your district has other specific coverage requirements, just let us know what you need!

4. What’s the process when a clinician has questions?

For clinical questions, team members will typically reach out to our experienced mentors and support team at Radiant Kids. This saves your staff time and allows team members to tap into our team’s knowledge and experience.

If the question relates to something district-specific — like a district policy, legal question, or school staff — the team member will reach out to the appropriate contact in your district administration.

5. Our district works hard to meet compliance standards and stay on top of advocate concerns. How do you ensure clinicians will support us in meeting compliance standards?

Working together to meet and exceed compliance standards starts from the very beginning of our relationship with your district. Typically, when we begin the contract, we set up a meeting to understand your district’s specific policies and procedures. This is also a great time to share any IEPs needing special attention. From our side, the meeting is attended by the clinician placed at your school plus a seasoned member from our supervision team.

We also strive to check in with the district IEP team at the beginning and throughout the contract. This helps us align with your district’s IEP policies and stay up-to-date on student needs and concerns. As an extra layer of support, the team at Radiant Kids Therapy collaborates to problem-solve and ensure compliance around high-profile IEP cases.

Ultimately, we’re here to back you up as the school administrator who has the final authority on compliance for the IEPs in your school district.

6. What is your service area, and do you offer any options outside of this area?

We’re based out of San Diego County and Riverside County, soon to include additional parts of Southern CA, and are available to provide on-site speech, occupational, and physical therapy services in schools throughout much of Southern California. In the event your district is located beyond our current service area for on-site therapy, consider our virtual therapy program for providing services to students in schools throughout California. We’ve been successfully supporting kids and students virtually for several years now.

7. Our school district has had difficulty in the past with contractors who weren’t familiar with working in the schools. What training and support do you offer to ensure your therapists are equipped to provide school-based therapy services?

We frequently hire experienced therapists who can hit the ground running and ensure our team has the depth of experience to support all clinical, IEP, and compliance needs.

When we do hire therapists who are new to working in schools, we only choose the best. Then, we set them (and you!) up for success by going above and beyond to support, train and mentor them. This includes:

Matching them with an experienced supervisor for all school-based clinical, IEP, and compliance needs
Training and support to understand and follow California IEP compliance standards
General clinical resources to support clinical needs

8. Our district has been unsuccessful in finding a therapist for our position. How can your company fill positions when there is such a shortage of high-quality therapists?

Yes, we agree — it’s such a challenge to find and hire high-quality therapists! At Radiant Kids Therapy, our big focus is providing excellent therapy services for kids and exceptional support for our therapists. This dedication to excellence has built us a positive reputation that therapists want to be a part of. This includes being a great employer by focusing on strong clinical support and an established positive company culture. On top of our stellar reputation, we’ve refined a process around recruiting, screening, and hiring great therapists.

It’s hard for a school district to provide that same level of attention to finding and supporting therapists.

9. Will the therapist who fills this contract have prior experience working in the school setting?

We love and have success in hiring SLPs, OTs, and PTs with prior experience in the school setting– many of them with years or even decades of school-based experience.

For any therapists we hire who don’t have prior school experience, though, we are highly selective about who we choose and have an extensive mentoring and support program to help prepare and support therapists who are transitioning to working in the schools for the first time.