Outpatient

Locations Weisman Children's Rehabilitation Center 94 Brick Road Marlton, NJ 08053 Danielle Underwood 856-489-4520 ext 249 Dunderwood@weismanchildrens.com Weisman Children's Rehabilitation Center Pennsauken 5261 Marlton Pike (Route 70) Suite B Pennsauken, NJ 08109 Danielle Underwood 856-675-1450 Dunderwood@weismanchildrens.com Weisman Children's Rehabilitation Center Atlantic City 1401 Atlantic Avenue  Atlantic City, NJ 08401 Fran Mulkeen  609-344-8400 fmulkeen@weismanchildrens.com Weisman Children's Rehabilitation Center Washington Twp 405 Hurffville – Cross Keys Road Sewell (Washington Twp.), NJ Liz Woods 856-218-3280 ewoods@weismanchildrens.com

Rehabilitation Services are an integral part of Weisman Children’s Rehabilitation Hospital’s commitment to children. Rehabilitation therapy for children from infancy through teens is provided in four outpatient pediatric rehab centers located in Southern New Jersey.  Together with the children and their families, our staff facilitates better experiences within the home, school, and daily environments.

Our pediatric therapists are trained and have specialty certifications. (make specialty certifications a link to expanded information of the certifications staff has)

Our therapists are trained to work with children who have numerous disabilities. Some of the common disorders seen include:

• Post-traumatic brain injury
• Orthopedic injuries
• Post fracture or casting/ immobilizations
• General deconditioning
• Coordination disorders/ Dyspraxia
• Cerebral palsy or other neurological deficits
• Post botox injections
• Genetic disorders
• Torticollis
• Toe walking
• Developmental delays
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Sensory Processing Disorders
• Language delays/disorders
• Apraxia
• Auditory processing disorders
• Feeding/swallowing disorders

Treatment focuses on developing functional skills and family education. Goals and treatment plans center on the unique needs of each child within the context of their daily lives. Family education focuses on helping caregivers understand and implement ways to carry over the skills learned in therapy into everyday activities.

PHYSICAL THERAPY
Physical Therapy (PT) addresses motor development and skills from infancy through adolescence addressing congenital, developmental and acquired impairments and diagnoses. Through the process of examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention, our function-focused program emphasizes mobility within a variety of environments. The treatment of orthopedic, neurological and cardiopulmonary conditions is a strong component of our service. Specific areas of specialization are in the following:  

• Cerebral palsy
• Adaptive equipment and ambulation aids
• Manual and power wheelchair training and assessment
• Orthotic evaluation and adjustments
• Neuro-developmental treatment
• Therapeutic Taping
• Post-traumatic brain injury rehabilitation
• Coordination disorders
• Children/Adolescent sports medicine
• Torticollis
• Aquatics

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Occupational Therapy’s (OT) primary goal is to assist children and adolescents to reach their individual potential while participating in daily life routines at home, school and in the community. Skills include self-feeding, dressing, personal care, play, social skills and home tasks. Additionally, Occupational Therapists address visual skills and cognitive abilities as they relate to everyday tasks. They help the child learn to work with their limitations whether they are physical or sensory based. The therapists help children and adolescents to achieve maximum functional outcomes in the following specialty areas:

• Sensory Processing   
• Self regulation and concept
• Therapeutic Listening
• Fine motor skills and refinement   
• Activities of daily living such as self dressing and self feeding
• Cognitive development    
• Functional vision therapy
• Assistive technology, such as computer use and environmental access

SPEECH LANGUAGE THERAPY
The Speech-Language Pathology Program focuses on the assessment and treatment of children who have difficulty in either speaking or understanding language.  They assist children to be able to communicate with their family and peers to get their wants and needs known and to be able to socially function within the community either through the use of verbal language or a variety of assistive communication devices.  Our therapists maximize communicative & feeding functions and have specialty certifications that guide treatment in the following areas:

• Oral-motor function    
• Articulation    
• Auditory processing  & comprehension   
• Cognitive-linguistic skills    
• Language use/ pragmatics    
• Voice quality & control    
• Fluency    
• Expressive language disorders
• Apraxia
• Augmentative communication
• Hearing impairment/aural (re)training 

We offer specialized assessment and training in the use of assistive technologies including augmentative communication devices, speech valves and auditory trainers.

FEEDING SWALLOWING THERAPY
We offer pediatric speech-language pathologists with extensive dysphagia training and expertise to provide individualized strategies and services to assist children in gaining feeding skills to maximize their health and well being.  These feeding disorders may be in the form of physical difficulty in eating and swallowing food or in the form of severe behavioral or sensory issues limiting the child to a small variety of foods or textures that may adversely affect their weight and physical health. Specialized feeding evaluation and treatment is provided for those individuals with tracheostomies. Comprehensive evaluation and intervention is available to address all areas of feeding and swallowing difficulties including:

• Rral motor delay/deficits
• Swallowing dysfunction
• Behavioral issues
• Sensory issues/impairments.

AQUATIC THERAPY
Working in a pool can be a wonderful complement to traditional treatment for children and adolescents with orthopedic, neurological and / or neuromuscular impairments. The water environment provides the benefit of buoyancy as well as resistance to movement. Water properties aid in:

• improving range of motion and decreasing joint pain and stiffness
• increasing strength through increased resistance (not always sensed by the child)
• enhancing coordination and endurance
• respiratory support and training
• easier handling and facilitation of the child’s body
• Constant sensory input
• Muscles relax and are easier to stretch because the pool is heated
• Kids can move in ways they cannot on dry land
• Kids can work harder in the water than on the land because it takes less effort and is more fun.