Types of Pediatric Rehabilitation Therapy

Speech Therapy

• Speech-language testing and treatment
• Modified barium swallow study in radiology
• Oral motor/feeding treatment
• Cognitive testing and therapy (thinking skills)
• Augmentative communication
• Voice therapy
• Passy-Muir valve
• Stuttering
• Articulation therapy
• VitalStim® (uses electrical stimulation of the swallowing muscles to improve strength and decrease risk of swallowing problems)

Occupational Therapy

• Fine motor skills
• Balance and posture control
• Strengthening and coordination
• Activities of daily living
• Adaptive equipment
• Sensory motor skills
• Visual-motor perception
• Printing and cursive writing
• Splinting for hands and feet (to improve position and function)
• Aquatic therapy

Physical Therapy

• Gross motor skills
• Balance and posture control
• Walking and movement testing and therapy
• Strengthening and coordination
• Wheelchair evaluation and positioning
• Aquatic therapy

Audiology

• Complete hearing evaluations
• Otoacoustic Emissions (testing evaluating the inner ear)
• Hearing aid evaluations and fittings
• Tympanometry (tests the middle ear for fluid, perforations and dysfunction)
• Auditory Processing Disorder Test (evaluates how sounds are understood from a normal hearing ear to the brain)
• Vestibular testing (evaluates balance in patients with dizziness)
• Auditory Brainstem Response testing (evaluates the auditory nerve function from the ear to the brain)
• Auditory Steady State Response (predicts hearing levels from patients that are difficult to test)