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Rehabilitation
Department
The Rehabilitation
Department provides evaluation, therapy, education, and equipment
to children with special health care needs and their families.
The therapists who staff the Rehabilitation Department are
recognized as community experts in a number of specialty areas
including: feeding, wheelchair/seating, splinting and bracing,
therapeutic casting, special equipment, communication problems
of children with cleft palate, augmentative communication,
and wound care. Medical diagnosis and age determine which
therapy services a child can receive and for how long. Across
the disciplines, an important goal is to educate parents about
their child's special needs and teach them how to improve
their child's day-to-day functioning at home. Parents and
families are included in planning therapy and setting goals
for their child and there is coordination of the child's care
with community resources.
Main
Number: 520-324-3600
Physical
Therapy
- Evaluate
gross motor, functional skills, and equipment needs of the
child and provide direct physical therapy for a broad range
of needs and recommend equipment
- Provide
casting, splinting, brace checks, prosthetic checks, wound
care, and manual wheelchair assessment and service
- Provide
specialized therapy to help support the goals of surgery
involving the lower extremities
- Work
with the doctors in the medical clinics including Orthotics,
Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, Neuromuscular, Scoliosis,
and others
Occupational
Therapy
- Evaluate
fine motor and functional skills, eye-hand coordination,
manual wheelchair needs, eating, dressing, and grooming
skills of the child and recommend equipment
- Provide
hand and arm splints to improve function and prevent problems
as well as direct occupational therapy for a broad range
of needs
- Provide
specialized therapy to help meet the goals of surgery involving
the upper extremities
- Work
with doctors in medical clinics including hand, Cerebral
Palsy, Spina Bifida, Arthritis, Upper Extremity and others
Speech-Language
Therapy
- Evaluate
structures of the child's mouth needed for eating, swallowing,
speech, and voice as well as the child's ability to understand
and use language for learning and play and provide direct
speech-language therapy, in English or Spanish, for a broad
range of needs
- When
a child is not able to use spoken language, teach the child
and family how to use special communication approaches
- Provide
specialized therapy to help meet the goals of surgery involving
repairs to the mouth or lips
- Work
with doctors in medical clinics including Plastics, Ear
Nose Throat, Orofacial, Cerebral Palsy, and others
Audiology
- Evaluate
hearing ability in infants and children of all ages.
- Select
and fit hearing aids that will best meet the communication
needs of children with hearing loss
- Teach
the child and family how to care for and use the hearing
aids for the greatest benefit
- Provide
ongoing hearing aid and ear mold service
- Serve
as a resource to schools in the educational planning for
children with hearing loss
- Monitor
hearing to assess the benefits of ear surgery
- Work
with doctors in medical clinics including Intake, Ear, Nose
& Throat, and Orofacial
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