Pediatric Physical Therapist

Pediatric Physical Therapist

The Utah Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN), offers the service of physical therapy to maximize children’s potential for independence through examination, evaluation, and promotion of health and wellness and implementation of a wide variety of interventions and supports.

Physical Therapists at CSHCN support children through the ages of infancy through adolescence and work as part of an interdisciplinary medical team, to help promote independence, increase participation, facilitate motor development and function, improve strength, enhance learning opportunities and ease care giving.  Physical therapists, as part of the ABLE team, provide services that include assessment and referral to appropriate resources in the areas of:

• Gross motor development
• Fine motor development
• Movement and mobility including balance and coordination
• Adaptation of participation of activities of daily living
• Tone and spasticity assessment and management
• Orthotics and prosthetic assessment, wear, and care
• Equipment design, fabrication, and fit
• Use of available assistive technologies

Physical therapists here at CSHCN also feel that it is our role to support the families with children with special needs as they are the ones that play the primary role in their child’s development. We feel it is our role, with the family; to incorporate a family centered care approach in developing an individualized plan of care that takes into consideration those resources available to develop a routine in the framework of the child’s natural environment. It is the family that coordinates services, advocates for supporting services and resources and is the primary provider of care to maximize their child’s overall potential and well being.

Physical Therapy Resources in the Salt Lake Valley

Baby Watch, Early Intervention
www.utahbabywatch.org
800.961.4226

Primary Children’s Medical Rehabilitation Services
Rehab Bountiful
280 North Main Street
801.292.8665

Rehab Sandy
870 East 9400 South
801.571.3081

Rehab Taylorsville
3845 West 4700 South
801.840.4360

Your Local School District
Direct questions regarding concerns of motor delay for an in school evaluation by the appropriate discipline

APTA Section on Pediatrics
www.pediatricapta.org