Three Branches of Pediatric Rehabilitation

Pediatric Physical Therapy -  How It Can Help Your Child

The team of Pediatric Physical Therapy specialists at St. Charles will work with your child to develop an individualized program with a focus on mobility and fitness. Therapy may focus on the following areas:

• Improving motion, strength, balance, coordination, endurance, mobility and wellness
• Achieving age appropriate developmental milestones
• Participating in age appropriate gross motor and school activities
• Independently negotiating his or her environment
• Evaluating for equipment needs to maximize mobility and independence

Pediatric Occupational Therapy - How It Can Help Your Child

• Improve fine motor skills and coordination
• Improve handwriting
• Promote age appropriate play skills
• Promote independence in self-care and daily living skills
• Improve sensory processing skills
• Help with self-modulation and behavior state
• Determine adaptive equipment needs for independence in the home and community

Pediatric Speech Language Therapy - How It Can Help Your Child

At St. Charles, our Pediatric Speech Language Specialists use child-specific, individualized programs to develop speech, language, feeding and swallowing, oral motor, voice, or fluency skills. The benefits of rehabilitation may include:

• Improving understanding and expression of oral and written language
• Improving speech production and articulation skills
• Decreasing stuttering behaviors
• Developing skills associated with problem solving, reasoning, cognition, language and memory
• Improving vocal hygiene
• Improving eating skills and swallowing patterns
• Developing social skills and organizational/academic strategies
• Providing Instrumental Diagnostics for swallowing
• Evaluating for communication devices and providing set up when appropriate

Learn about St. Charles' interdisciplinary approach to Pediatric Rehabilitation Services.