Pediatric rehabilitation program
Advocate Children’s Hospital’s pediatric rehabilitation and development department is unique to Chicagoland because it is the only pediatric rehabilitation program that is located inside an acute care hospital. Your child can receive different kinds of rehabilitative therapy after a surgery or other kinds of inpatient health care procedures. We also offer outpatient physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
Inpatient rehabilitation services focus on early identification and intervention and can be appropriate for premature newborns, at-risk infants, infants with congenital heart disease, and children hospitalized for acute illnesses, brain trauma, and orthopedic surgeries. Inpatient rehabilitative care is fully integrated with our comprehensive outpatient services to provide seamless support for your child.
Our services are provided to children with special needs throughout the hospital, including those in the following areas of the hospital:
- Mother baby unit
- Newborn and pediatric intensive care units
- Pediatric and adolescent units
- Pediatric psychiatry unit
Located on our Oak Lawn campus, our inpatient rehabilitation unit is unique because it is the only pediatric-focused facility in the state of Illinois.
The inpatient rehabilitation program treats children in the hospital with physical, cognitive, or developmental disabilities resulting from:
- Brain trauma
- Infection
- Stroke
- Orthopedic injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Amputation
- Cancer
- Neuromuscular difficulties
The rehabilitation team helps your child regain their childhood playfulness, resume their life outside the hospital, and return to school, as appropriate. Our rehabilitation team has specialist training to improve the function of children who have impairments in motor and/or cognitive skills. Advocate Children’s Hospital employs a robust team of professionals to care for your little one’s needs. Their individualized care team may include a combination of the following:
- Physiatrist
- Developmental pediatrician
- Rehabilitation nurse
- Physical therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Speech language pathologist
- Audiologist
- Neuropsychologist
- Educational specialist
- Therapeutic recreation specialist
- Social worker
- Dietician
- Child Life specialist
- Chaplain
Our outpatient rehabilitation locations provide comprehensive assessments and coordinate treatment programs for children to address:
- Physical disabilities
- Orthopedic injuries
- Developmental delays
- Communication and speech disorders
- Feeding and swallowing difficulties
- Sensory integration
- Fine motor coordination
We also offer several outpatient rehabilitation developmental clinics for evaluation of specific medical diagnoses and recommendations for continuing care.
We are an Early Intervention provider for the State of Illinois program.
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