Pediatric Rehabilitation Services
Allegiance Physical Rehabilitation – Pediatric Services includes quality pediatric physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language services for patients from birth to 18-years-old. We specialize in the evaluation, treatment and management of your child’s unique needs. Our child-friendly environment is both stimulating and fun and provides the optimal atmosphere for success.
Through collaboration with you and your child, our pediatric rehabilitation team will design and implement a treatment program specifically tailored to your child’s needs.
Pediatric Physical Therapy
With our extensive training in child development and movement, we are equipped to meet your child’s physical needs by enhancing and building upon his or her existing gross motor abilities. This includes making successful transitions from one position to another—such as sitting, four-point contact, kneeling and standing—and encouraging safe and efficient mobility—such as rolling, crawling, walking, running and jumping.
Our pediatric physical therapist works with conditions such as:
- Torticollis
- Developmental delay
- Cerebral palsy
- Spina bifida
- Muscular dystrophy
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Club foot
- Orthopaedic injury or post-surgery care
- Traumatic brain or spinal cord injury
- Intoeing or toe-walking
- Clumsiness or hypotonia
We strive to enhance age-appropriate independence through:
- Positioning
- Optimizing bone and joint alignment
- Movement facilitation and sequencing
- Stretching and strengthening
- Balance and coordination
- Gait training
- Serial casting
Our ultimate goal is to enhance your child’s overall physical capabilities, help with motor function and development, improve strength and endurance, and encourage learning and participation.
Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Our pediatric occupational therapist will address your child’s ability to perform daily activities independently, including play, self-care, school work, and exploring his or her environment. Occupational therapy focuses on fine-motor coordination, development of age-appropriate grasp patterns and perceptual/sensory processing.
Pediatric occupational therapy is also beneficial if your child has weak arms or difficulties with arm movement and reaching. In addition, our therapists can do protective splinting for a child’s hand, wrist or elbow to allow for optimal arm positioning and increase the ability to perform tasks independently.
Our pediatric occupational therapist commonly works with such conditions as:
- Cerebral palsy
- Developmental delay
- Muscular dystrophy
- Spina bifida
- Brain and spinal cord injuries
- Neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders
- Burns
- Cystic fibrosis
- Fractures and soft tissue injuries
- Juvenile Arthritis
- Oculomotor dysfunction
- Sensory processing disorder
We will help your child with age-appropriate activities, such as:
- Manipulating various clothing fasteners (snaps, buttons, zippers)
- Strengthening tasks, including exercises with Theraputty
- Dexterity tasks, including stringing beads and placing pegs
- Visual motor integration tasks, including block building and puzzles
Pediatric Speech and Language Pathology
Our skilled speech and language pathologist is trained in evaluating, diagnosing and treating a variety of communication and swallowing disorders. Your child’s speech therapy may include the following interventions
:
- Speech—Producing and sequencing sounds
- Language skills—Understanding and expression through spoken or written language
- Voice skills—Using the vocal mechanism in an appropriate manner
- Auditory training—Learning to hear and interpret auditory information
- Swallowing—Training oral and pharyngeal muscles to function for safe swallowing
Our pediatric speech and language pathologist works with such conditions as:
- Down syndrome
- Cerebral palsy
- Aphasia
- Developmental apraxia
- Dysphagia
- Dyspraxia
- Dysarthria
- Abnormal auditory perception
- Hearing loss or cochlear implants
We will help your child with age-appropriate activities, such as:
- Tolerating different textures of food (hot, cold, puree, soft and hard solids)
- Oral motor exercises incorporating proper tongue and lip placement and strengthening exercises related to feeding and eating
- Formulating age-appropriate sounds, words and sentences through structured tasks and play activities
- Participating in social skills, such as making eye-contact, taking turns, and joint attention, through structured play activities
- Auditory activities that incorporate life skills, music, etc.