About Us
Meet Our Team
TEAM Pediatric Therapy in Orlando, FL, provides expert pediatric therapy to help children build confidence, independence, and meet their developmental goals. Led by Clinical Director Sara Reese, MSPT, with 25+ years of experience, we offer personalized physical, occupational, and speech therapy. We specialize in conditions like cerebral palsy and Down syndrome, collaborating with local providers for comprehensive care. Our team is dedicated to helping children across Greater Orlando thrive.
Sara Reese, MSPT
Clinical Director
Sara graduated with high honors from the University of Central Florida, earning a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences before completing her Master of Science in Physical Therapy. She was fortunate to complete a clinical internship at the Arnold Palmer Outpatient Rehabilitation Clinic where she realized her passion for providing physical therapy to children. She has spent her career in pediatric home care, working closely with children and their families, with many different types of diagnoses and abilities including cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, spina bifida, chromosomal abnormalities, seizure activity, torticollis, and orthopedic deformities such as scoliosis.
Sara values communication and collaboration with other health-care providers and physicians, including physical medicine and orthopedists, orthotists, and assistive technology practitioners, and takes specific interest in assisting families obtain and use adaptive equipment and bracing to provide greater independence to their child. She enjoys promoting self-confidence and self-advocacy for the children she provides therapy, and creates an expectation of progress and continued growth for the family as well.
As the Clinical Director for TEAM Pediatric Therapy, Sara strongly believes in an interdisciplinary approach among the team of therapists and facilitates this in providing therapy services, for the benefit of the children and families served. She is committed to understanding the process of authorizing therapy services and utilizing resources in the community to ensure that all children and family’s needs are met. Sara enjoys participating as a volunteer for the Autism Society of Greater Orlando and is a former board member for the Spina Bifida Association of Central Florida.
Education
- B.S. Health Sciences
– University of Central Florida - M.S. Physical Therapy
– University of Central Florida
Clinical Rotation
Affiliations
Lauren Crawford
Director
Lauren Crawford has worked for the last 15 years helping healthcare companies reach patients and informing them of medicine and procedures that could positively impact their lives. During this time, she worked with Fortune 100 healthcare companies such as AbbVie, Pfizer, Merck, CVS, Aetna, Eli Lilly and others to help them bring medical advancements and treatments to patient populations.
Lauren has two children who actively receive speech pathology therapy. After seeing first-hand how speech therapy helped her children’s reading, self-confidence and inclusion in their school and sports communities she was inspired to try and bring that opportunity to other children in Orlando. She left her most recent position as VP, Pharmaceutical Practice Lead at a prominent technology company to team up with our Clinical Director Sara Reese to start TEAM Pediatric Therapy. Lauren hopes to positively impact the community by offering pediatric therapies here in Orlando.
Why Choose TEAM Pediatric Therapy
We focus on empowering children to build self-confidence, independence, and inclusion in schools while also achieving health and fitness goals, vocational skills training, and access to their community. By closely collaborating with local providers, therapists, teachers, caregivers, and other specialists, we develop a comprehensive plan of care tailored to each child’s unique needs.
We offer a proactive and multidisciplinary approach to pediatric therapy for our families. We specialize in clinical areas including feeding and oral-motor therapy, behavior interventions, splinting and bracing, wheelchairs and other adaptive equipment, toileting and hygiene and assistive technology.
Our Clinical Director, Sara Reese, MSPT, has over 25 years of practice servicing Greater Orlando. Sara has an excellent history of cooperative work with Orlando’s payers, insurers, providers, local patient advocacy organizations and hospital systems. Her experience will allow our organization to service, meet, and enhance your ability to meet the needs of your recipients.
