Sensory Friendly Movies

May 30, 2023

We love working in Southeastern Michigan as we get to work with hard-working families and amazing businesses like Emagine who intentionally create special experiences for members of the community that can get overlooked.

Join Emagine For A Sensory Friendly Movie!

Sensory Friendly Screenings provide modifications to the theatre atmosphere without modifying the film for those who experience sensory issues.

Sensory Friendly Film Screenings

‍Select Emagine locations will host a unique, sensory friendly screening twice a month, with specific modifications made to ensure an enjoyable experience for individuals with sensory needs and their supporters. Their sensory friendly programing makes going to the movies a more enjoyable experience for families, children, and teens with sensory needs. All sensory friendly films will be shown in 2D. *Note there are no modifications made to the film.

What does Sensory Friendly mean?

First, it means sensory friendly experience (lights up a bit, sound down a bit). Second, if your child needs to get up, move, dance, sing…No problem. Third, guests are welcome to bring a safe snack for any food allergies or food avoidance/restrictions.

Locations: (Michigan) Birch Run, Canton, Hartland, Macomb, Novi, Rochester Hills, Saline, Woodhaven, Quality 10 Powered by Emagine, (Minnesota) Eagan, Lakeville, Rogers, White Bear, (Illinois) Frankfort, (Indiana) Noblesville, Portage, (Wisconsin) Geneva Lakes

Films‍

First Showing of the Day. On-Sale dates vary. Check the website or Emagine app for theatres and showtimes.‍

The Little Mermaid
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Elemental
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Where

Tickets are available at the box office, online at Emagine-Entertainment.com or through the Emagine App.
To purchase tickets and for a full list of showtimes visit Emagine-Entertainment.com
On-Sale dates vary.
All films, locations, dates, and times are subject to change.

Film Synopsis

The Little Mermaid (Rated PG)
The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.

Elemental (Rated Pg)
Follows Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together.

In addition to Sensory Friendly Movies

Join Emagine Entertainment For A Variety Of Specialty Screenings‍

Providing Open Caption, Sensory Friendly, Dementia Friendly, Breakfast & a Movie, and Lunch & a Movie Screenings

Join Emagine Entertainment this June as they host a variety of specialty screenings for their guests. Each month guests can watch some of the newest film releases with an enhanced experience. Open Caption screenings provide subtitles for those with hearing impairments. Sensory Friendly Screenings provide modifications to the theatre atmosphere without modifying the film for those who experience sensory issues. Dementia Friendly screenings provide exclusively selected classic movies and musicals and encourage audience participation while providing guests with special door-to-door service. The Breakfast and a Movie and Lunch and a Movie allow guests to enjoy a full meal and concessions while they enjoy their film.

Open Caption Film Screenings

‍Select Emagine locations will host Open Caption showings of some of the newest film releases on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons all month long. Guests who experience hearing impairments will be able to enjoy the movie-going experience with audio subtitles displayed on the big screen for all to see.
All open caption movies are shown in 2D. *Note: there are no modifications made to the film.

Locations: (Michigan) Novi, Rochester Hills, Royal Oak, Hartland, Woodhaven, Quality 10 Powered by Emagine, (Minnesota) Eagan, Lakeville, Monticello, Rogers, White Bear, Willow Creek, (Wisconsin) Geneva Lakes, (Illinois) Frankfort, (Indiana) Noblesville, Portage

Films:
On-Sale dates vary. Check the website or Emagine app for theatres and showtimes.

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Elemental
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

The Flash
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Dementia Friendly Screening

‍Dementia Friendly Screenings include exclusively selected classic movies and musicals presented in a unique setting with softer sound and ambient lighting. Guests are able to interact during the presentation and encouraged to talk back, clap, tap their feet, sway, sing along and get up and dance.
Emagine works with Dementia Friendly Saline to provide guests with a special door-to-door experience guided by a team of dementia friendly “Purple Angels.” These staff and volunteers act as guides for the guests beginning the moment they arrive until the moment they leave.
More information can be found on Emagine’s website. Tickets can be purchaseddirectly through Dementia Friendly Saline.

Location: Emagine Saline

Films:
Showings are the second Wednesday of each month.

Meet Me In St. Louis
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Pre-Show Mingling: 1:15-2:00PM
Film Begins: 2:00PM

Breakfast And A Movie Screening

Each month, Emagine hosts a Breakfast and a Movie showing, at select theatres, of one of the newest family-film releases. Tickets are $24 each and include a full breakfast buffet, a 44oz. popcorn, and a 21oz fountain drink as well as a ticket to the showing.

Location: Emagine Royal Oak, Emagine Palladium, Emagine Canton

Film:
On-Sale dates vary. Check the website or Emagine app for more information.

The Little Mermaid*
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Senior Lunch And A Movie Screening

‍Each month, Emagine Royal Oak hosts a special Senior Citizen Lunch and a Movie. Tickets are $24 each and include a full lunch buffet, a 44oz. popcorn and a 21oz. fountain drink as well as a ticket to the showing. This offer is valid for guests aged 55 and up.

Location: Emagine Royal Oak

Film:
On-Sale dates vary. Check the website or Emagine app for more information.

About My Father
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Where:
Tickets are available at the box office, online at Emagine-Entertainment.com or through the Emagine App.

Film Synopsis

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Rated P)
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (Rated P-13)
Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new breed of Transformer – the Maximals – to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. and starring Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, the film arrives in theatres June 9, 2023.

The Flash (Rated P-13)
Worlds collide in “The Flash” when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. That is unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian… albeit not the one he’s looking for. Ultimately, to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?

He Little Mermaid (Rated PG)
The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.

Elemental (Rated PG)
Follows Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together.

About My Father (Rated PG-13)
The hottest comic in America, Sebastian Maniscalco joins forces with legendary Italian-American and two-time Oscar® winner, Robert De Niro (Best Actor, Raging Bull, 1980), in the new comedy ABOUT MY FATHER. The film centers around Sebastian (Maniscalco) who is encouraged by his fiancée (Leslie Bibb) to bring his immigrant, hairdresser father, Salvo (De Niro), to a weekend get-together with her super-rich and exceedingly eccentric family (Kim Cattrall, Anders Holm, Brett Dier, David Rasche). The weekend develops into what can only be described as a culture clash, leaving Sebastian and Salvo to discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.

Meet Me In St. Louis
St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year-old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transferred to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair.

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April 5, 2023

MetroEHS Joins WDIV for Autism Awareness Month

We are proud to sponsor Live in the D, and excited to have joined them this month to bring Autism Awareness.

Tati Amare:
As we watch children grow, we see them develop in many different ways, from infant to toddler to child. As they grow, we celebrate milestones like first steps or first words, but what if the child in your life hasn’t reached a milestone by a certain age or at all? That’s where our sponsor, MetroEHS can help families and children thrive when developmental challenges present themselves. Joining us now here from MetroEHS is our sponsor for Autism Awareness Month is Dawn Sterling, a board certified behavioral analyst with MetroEHS Pediatric Therapy. Good morning and thank you for being with us.

Dawn Sterling:
Good morning. Thank you for having me.

Tati Amare:
This is a lot to think about, but MetroEHS prides itself as a neighborhood therapy company that is accessible to everyone because you have 14 locations and 3 more on the way. Explain the work that you do with families and what makes MetroEHS unique.

Dawn Sterling:
Yes, so we are a pediatric therapy service provider and what really makes us unique is the different variety of services that we offer all in one location. So each neighborhood therapy center has a speech and language pathologist, occupational therapy, physical therapy, applied behavior analysis. We also have dieticians and mental health professionals working with us, and what really sets us apart is our feeding therapy program. So what we do, and its uniqueness, is this wrap around the whole child. So we focus on the whole child developmentally. So whatever a family may be concerned with or struggling with, we’ve got services and support for those families.

Tati Amare:
For every need. I like that. Now if I’m a parent at home and for family members of children, what are some signs that we should look for that may indicate that there may be developmental concerns with our children?

Dawn Sterling:
That’s a great question. So we look for what is called developmental milestones. So your pediatrician is a great person to get that resource from. So if you are at all concerned about your child meeting milestones, maybe they’re not meeting them in the timeframe that you expected, or maybe they had some of these milestones and they’re dropping off, you’re going to start with your pediatrician. They may recommend evaluations. Always pursue those. It’s better to rule out any concerns than to perhaps miss it.
Sometimes what’s recommended is behavior therapy. Applied behavior analysis is one type of therapy that can really help with children with developmental disabilities, and not just autism. These therapies, speech therapy, feeding therapy, occupational therapy, they are for a variety of diagnoses, global childhood developmental delay, any sort of developmental delay that your evaluators may see, there is a related service that can support these families.

Tati Amare:
All right. Now you’ve brought in some example of the items that you use to work with children. So walk us through these tools. I’m going to hold these up.

Dawn Sterling:
Thank you, Tati.

Tati Amare:
Of course.

Dawn Sterling:
MetroEHS is a collaborative pediatric center, so we collaborate with all of our service providers such as SLPs, or Speech Language Pathologists, that may help us design core boards for learners that are not communicating fully with their words yet. We also will collaborate with our occupational therapists on staff for things that may meet a young child’s sensory needs. We are movers and shakers, so sometimes we need to have things that we can play with in our hands, it might be scented to wake up some of those senses. We also have sensory oral chews. We work with a lot of very young kids and we know developmentally young children like to mouth on things.

Tati Amare:
Yeah, this is perfect.

Dawn Sterling:
So this is food grade silicone, it’s safe, it’s safer than the wooden puzzle piece that your toddler might be putting in their mouth. And then we do work on daily living skills, and this is from our OT department, as well. When children are learning to utilize a straw, this cup can be very helpful because we can squeeze it to give them a little bit of that liquid and really show them this is something you might want as we build up their ability to have independence with eating, drinking.

Tati Amare:
And all of that stuff.

Dawn Sterling:
Again, the whole child.

Tati Amare:
Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Okay, so I have to ask you before, because we’re just about running out of time, how rewarding is it for you to be in this position and have the impact with these kids?

Dawn Sterling:
It is the most incredible experience. We get to partner with families. The parents are a viable and valuable member of our treatment team, so we get to work with them and really see what their children and their families are achieving as a result of our therapies. So that is the biggest impact, is seeing progress with our kids.

Tati Amare:
That’s awesome. Dawn, thank you so much for being with us.

Dawn Sterling:
Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Tati Amare:
This is going to be helpful for a lot of families out there. Remember, MetroEHS has 14 locations and 3 more on the way across Metro Detroit. To find a location near you and to see how they can help your family, go to metroehs.com.

March 26, 2024

New Therapy for Age Old Issue: Pelvic Floor Therapy

MetroEHS introduced Pelvic Floor Therapy last month and this new therapy will change the lives of countless children because of it. Pelvic floor therapy is a specialized field of physical therapy that focuses on treating conditions and symptoms related to the pelvic floor muscles in children. Pelvic Floor Therapy involves training your child on how to contract and relax the pelvic floor muscles and with retraining and regular exercises, your child can learn how to better control and gain sensory awareness of these muscles, which play a crucial role in urination and stooling.

Who Could Benefit from Pelvic Floor Therapy?

Pelvic floor therapy can be beneficial for children who struggle with or are unable to gain control over their bowel and bladder. This therapy is often recommended for children who are diagnosed with one or multiple of the following conditions:

Enuresis/Bedwetting
Constipation
Incontinence
Overactive bladder
Urinary frequency/retention
Urinary incontinence
Urinary urgency
Frequent UTIs

What to Expect with Pelvic Floor Therapy?

The success of pelvic floor therapy often depends on the involvement and commitment of parents or caregivers. Adherence to recommended diet modifications and daily routines can greatly improve the outcomes of this therapy. At MetroEHS, our physical therapists take into account the family history and any life-changing events to tailor the therapy according to the specific needs of each child.

July 18, 2024

Why Do Some Children With Autism Toe Walk—and What Can Parents Do?

Are you concerned about your child’s toe walking habits? Toe walking, a common concern for parents, can sometimes be associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Understanding the connection between toe walking and autism is crucial for early intervention and support.

What is Toe Walking?

Toe walking refers to a walking pattern where a person walks on their toes or the balls of their feet without their heels touching the ground. While occasional toe walking in toddlers is common, persistent toe walking beyond the age of two may indicate an underlying issue.

The Connection with Autism

Toe walking is often observed in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While not all toe walkers have autism, studies suggest that many children with ASD exhibit toe walking behavior. Children with Autism often have higher sensory seeking behaviors, and being up on their toes gives them deep sensory input through their feet and in their contracted calf muscles. This connection can lead to more targeted interventions and support from therapists and parents.

How Can a MetroEHS Physical Therapist Help?

Physical therapy plays a crucial role in addressing toe walking in children, especially those with autism. A skilled physical therapist can:

‍Assess the Underlying Causes: A physical therapist will conduct a comprehensive evaluation to identify any underlying factors contributing to toe walking, such as muscle tightness, sensory issues, muscle weakness, or lack of range of motion.‍
Develop Individualized Treatment Plans: Based on the assessment, the physical therapist will create a personalized treatment plan tailored to your child’s needs. This plan may include stretching exercises, strengthening activities, balance training, or different sensory inputs.‍
Educate and Empower Families: MetroEHS Physical Therapists work closely with families to educate them about toe walking and provide strategies for home exercises and activities to support their child’s progress.

Toe-walking can impact your child long-term if left untreated:

Toe walking will impact your child’s overall body positioning, posture, and muscles. With toe walking, because of these impacts, it will also change the load of the body’s joints and likely cause chronic pain as the individual ages. It is common for toe walkers to lose range of motion in their ankles, preventing them from being able to reach their heels to the ground and causing their Achilles tendon to shorten. In more severe cases, if the Achilles tendon shortens too much, the only way to regain that length is with a surgical lengthening.

Take the First Step Towards Support

If you’re concerned about your child’s toe walking or suspect they may have autism, early intervention is key. Schedule an evaluation with a qualified physical therapist who specializes in pediatric care. Together, we can help your child take confident steps towards improved mobility and independence.

Therapies We Offer

Communities We Serve

About MetroEHS

Sensory Friendly Movies

Join Emagine For A Sensory Friendly Movie!

Sensory Friendly Film Screenings

What does Sensory Friendly mean?

Films‍

Where

Film Synopsis

In addition to Sensory Friendly Movies

Join Emagine Entertainment For A Variety Of Specialty Screenings‍

Open Caption Film Screenings

Dementia Friendly Screening

Breakfast And A Movie Screening

Senior Lunch And A Movie Screening

Film Synopsis

Continue Reading

MetroEHS Joins WDIV for Autism Awareness Month

We are proud to sponsor Live in the D, and excited to have joined them this month to bring Autism Awareness.

New Therapy for Age Old Issue: Pelvic Floor Therapy

Who Could Benefit from Pelvic Floor Therapy?

What to Expect with Pelvic Floor Therapy?

Why Do Some Children With Autism Toe Walk—and What Can Parents Do?

What is Toe Walking?

The Connection with Autism

How Can a MetroEHS Physical Therapist Help?

Toe-walking can impact your child long-term if left untreated:

Take the First Step Towards Support

Discover the SUPER in your child!

Therapies We Offer

Communities We Serve

About MetroEHS

Sensory Friendly Movies

Discover the super in your child!

Join Emagine For A Sensory Friendly Movie!

Sensory Friendly Film Screenings

What does Sensory Friendly mean?

Films‍

Where

Film Synopsis

In addition to Sensory Friendly Movies

Join Emagine Entertainment For A Variety Of Specialty Screenings‍

Open Caption Film Screenings

Dementia Friendly Screening

Breakfast And A Movie Screening

Senior Lunch And A Movie Screening

Film Synopsis

Continue Reading

MetroEHS Joins WDIV for Autism Awareness Month

We are proud to sponsor Live in the D, and excited to have joined them this month to bring Autism Awareness.

New Therapy for Age Old Issue: Pelvic Floor Therapy

Who Could Benefit from Pelvic Floor Therapy?

What to Expect with Pelvic Floor Therapy?

Why Do Some Children With Autism Toe Walk—and What Can Parents Do?

What is Toe Walking?

The Connection with Autism

How Can a MetroEHS Physical Therapist Help?

Toe-walking can impact your child long-term if left untreated:

Take the First Step Towards Support

Discover the SUPER in your child!