About
About
Pediatric Rehabilitation at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System is provided by a multidisciplinary team of experienced therapists who specialize in evaluation and treatment of individuals from birth to 21 years old. Our team consists of occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists with advanced pediatric training.
Pediatric Rehabilitation Therapy Goals
Pediatric Rehabilitation Therapy Goals
Occupational Therapy
- Promote sensory processing and calming.
- Enhance visual motor and visual perceptual skills.
- Facilitate age-appropriate fine motor control and coordination.
- Improve pre-writing and handwriting skills.
- Promote age-appropriate self-care skills including dressing, bathing, grooming, feeding and toileting.
- Enhance age-appropriate daily living skills, including buttoning, shoe tying, teeth brushing, simple meal prep, etc.
- Train and educate in use of adaptive equipment (devices used to assist with everyday life).
- Recommend, modify, or fabricate upper extremity splints as appropriate.
- Recommend or adapt tasks, toys, or other items for maximum use.
- Facilitate appropriate peer interactions.
Physical Therapy
- Improve muscle strength and joint range of motion.
- Improve balance and coordination to increase independent movement.
- Promote proper body alignment for improved posture.
- Development of age-appropriate gross motor skills.
- Provide gait training for stable walking motion.
- Facilitate the development of reflexes in infants.
- Provide neuromuscular re-education, range of motion and strength training for lower extremities.
- Assess, train, and educate patients for orthotics, prosthetics, and adaptive equipment.
Speech-Language Pathology
- Facilitate receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language skill development.
- Improve articulation and phonological deficits.
- Enhance voice and fluency functions of speech.
- Facilitate improved cognition.
- Treat auditory processing and hearing impairments.
- Create alternative forms of communication.
- Provide comprehensive feeding and swallowing evaluation and treatment.
- Address oral motor and oral sensory deficits.
Specialized Programs & Services
Specialized Programs & Services
- Adaptive equipment
- Aquatic therapy
- Articulation/phonology
- Assistive technology
- Auditory verbal therapy
- Bodyweight supported treadmill training
- Brain injury
- Developmental screening- PT, OT, SLP
- Equine assisted therapy
- Feeding/dysphagia
- Handwriting Without Tears
- Interactive metronome
- Kineseo taping
- Language development (expressive, receptive, pragmatics)
- Massage/myofascial release
- Modified barium swallow studies (MBSS)
- Neonatal intervention/treatment of premature infants
- Neurodevelopment treatment (NDT)
- Oral motor/oral sensory
- Orthopedic interventions (serial casting, splinting, orthotics, braces)
- Saeboflex
- Sensory processing
- Stuttering
- Therapeutic listening
- Vestibular disorders
- Voice training
- "Wii-Hab" training
Common Diagnoses
Common Diagnoses
- ADD/ADHD
- Apraxia/dyspraxia
- Articulation/phonological disorder
- Ataxia
- Autism/autistic spectrum
- Balance/gait disorders
- Brachial plexus injury
- Brain injury
- Cancer
- Central auditory processing disorder
- Cerebral palsy
- Cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies
- Clumsiness/poor coordination
- Coordination disorder
- Developmental delay
- Down Syndrome
- Feeding and swallowing dysfunction
- Genetic disorders
- Hearing impairment/cochlear implant
- Hip dysplasia
- Hypertonia
- Hypotonia
- Language disorders
- Neurological disorders
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Oral motor/sensory dysfunction
- Pain in muscles and joints
- Pervasive developmental disorder
- Plagiocephaly
- Prematurity
- Progressive diagnoses/muscular dystrophy
- Pulmonary problems
- Scoliosis
- Seizures/epilepsy
- Sensory processing disorders
- Spina bifida
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke/CVA
- Stuttering
- Torticollis
- Vestibular disorders
Inpatient Pediatric Rehabilitation Services
Inpatient Pediatric Rehabilitation Services
- Developmental screening, assessment, and treatment. (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Pediatric Floor and Well-Baby Nursery)
- Modified barium swallow studies (MBSS)
- Bedside feeding, swallowing, oral motor/oral sensory evaluation, and treatment.
Contact Us
Contact Us
To learn more, call:
1-864-560-5151