Physical therapy helps 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 (a condition where a baby’s head becomes flattened on one side) and torticollis (a condition where the neck muscles become tight, causing the head to tilt to one side).
Ridgeview’s therapists are certified by the National Association of Neonatal Therapy and have additional training in the following areas and approaches:
- Genetic conditions
- Gross motor delay
- Kinesio® taping
- Manual therapy
- Muscle energy techniques
- Neuromuscular conditions
- Pediatric pelvic health
Helps children who experience frequent trips to the bathroom (overactive bladder), constipation, bedwetting*, incontinence, urinary and fecal leakage, straining/pain while going to the bathroom and/or frequent urinary tract infections.
*To assist with bedwetting, the child must be dry during the day for at least 10 months prior.
- Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF)
- Torticollis/Plagiocephaly
Pediatric occupational therapy helps children participate in meaningful everyday tasks by using play-based activities to make learning and reaching developmental milestones fun. 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:
- Body awareness
- Dressing
- Emotional regulation
- Executive functioning — attention, impulsive control, flexible thinking
- Feeding
- Fine and visual motor development
- Grooming/hygiene
- Handwriting Without Tears®
- Interactive metronome
- Reflex integration
- Sensory integration
- Sleep
- Therapeutic listening
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 dysphagia (difficulty swallowing).
Our team of speech-language pathologists help children develop and enhance their communication abilities in a playful environment. Areas evaluated and treated include:
- Articulation
- Dysarthria
- Feeding/dysphagia
- Oral motor
- Phonological disorder
- Social skills
- Stuttering
- Receptive/expressive language delay
- Verbal apraxia
- Voice
