Pediatric Rehab Services

Ridgeview’s Pediatric Rehab team works with families to develop an individualized care plan to help their child thrive. As a parent or guardian, you are the expert on your child — and our team is here to address your concerns and provide support. Our team includes speech, occupational and physical therapists who have extensive training, certification and licensure in their respective areas. We provide services in a fun and creative environment that allows your child to feel comfortable and maximize their abilities.  

Ridgeview’s Pediatric Rehab team provides therapy for pediatric patients of all ages — from newborns to adolescents — for a range of diagnoses and related difficulties, including:

• Autism spectrum disorders
• Attention deficit disorders
• Developmental delays (motor, language or speech)
• Neuromuscular disorders (cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy or spina bifida)
• Feeding difficulties
• Birth injuries, including brachial plexus injuries
• Concussion and brain injuries
• Difficulties with daily living skills
• Genetic syndromes such as Down syndrome and Fragile X
• Speech sound disorders
• Auditory processing disorders
• Toe walking
• Self-regulation disorders
• Speech language disorders
• Fine and gross motor disorders

Physical Therapy

Physical therapists help your child enhance and develop their abilities to physically participate in daily activities. For older children, we address physical disabilities and issues with strength, coordination, balance and physical endurance. For younger children, we help achieve gross motor milestones such as rolling, sitting, crawling and walking. Additionally, our physical therapists specialize in services for infants diagnosed with plagiocephaly and torticollis.

They have additional training in the following areas and approaches:

• Manual therapy
• Kinesio® taping
• Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF)
• Muscle energy techniques.
• Gross motor delay
• Torticollis /Plagiocephaly
• Neuromuscular conditions
• Genetic conditions
• NANT certified (National Association of Neonatal Therapy)

Occupational Therapy

Pediatric occupational therapy helps children overcome sensory challenges and enhance fine motor and self-help skills. Our team of pediatric occupational therapists all specialize and hold certifications in different areas — offering a wealth of knowledge and services.

Areas evaluated and treated include:

• Self-feeding, behavioral/sensory feeding
• Grooming/hygiene
• Fine motor
• Sensory motor
• Gross motor
• Handwriting
• Sensory processing
• Sleep
• Self-regulation
• Flexible thinking
• Interactive metronome

Feeding Therapy

With feeding therapy, our goal is to help your child develop age-appropriate feeding skills to ensure they are getting the nourishment needed for growth and development.

We evaluate and treat children with motor based and/or oral-sensory based feeding issues, including oral-motor feeding difficulties, neurological impairments, developmental delays and more.

Speech Therapy

Our team of speech-language pathologists help children develop and enhance their communication abilities in a playful environment.  Areas evaluated and treated include articulation, stuttering, phonological disorder and more.

• Oral motor
• Feeding
• Verbal apraxia
• Articulation
• Receptive/expressive language delay
• Stuttering
• Dysarthria
• Phonological disorder
• Voice
• Social skills