The best rehab choice for the children in your care
The Rehabilitation Services at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital serve the therapeutic needs of infants, children and adolescents.
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When a young child has a developmental delay, early intervention is key to the best possible outcome. A "wait and see" response to observed delays can lead to missed opportunities that adversely affect a child's growth, development and potential.
At Nicklaus Children's Hospital we offer a full range of bilingual diagnostic and therapeutic services to meet the needs of infants, children and adolescents. All pediatric rehabilitation services are provided by a team of professionals who focus on the medical, therapeutic and educational needs of the child and family.
Nicklaus Children's Hospital rehabilitative program includes both inpatient services offered to patients in the hospital’s neonatal, pediatric and cardiac intensive care units as well as outpatient care available at the hospital’s main campus and other South Florida locations.
The first step in rehabilitating a child is to provide a team of pediatric rehabilitation specialists who understand the physical, emotional and psychological needs of children and their families at varying stages of life. The entire team has advanced training in meeting children's specialized needs, as well as how best to engage them in the rehabilitative process. The specialists include:
After a comprehensive evaluation, a treatment plan is developed with the child’s family to enable patients to achieve maximum functional levels as quickly as possible. Our team is dedicated to provide children with the best opportunity to improve their daily function, level of independence and quality of life.
Nicklaus Children's offers a comprehensive array of therapy services for children and teens, including:
The Brain Institute offers a comprehensive array of multidisciplinary programs that treat the following conditions:
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In order to begin rehabilitation services at NCH, each child requires a current, comprehensive evaluation, based on the children's individual needs, diagnosis, and age. To begin this process and to schedule an initial evaluation please use the link below.
Prior to your child’s evaluation, please complete the mobile pre-registration and clinical documentation, which you will receive via text message.
Please upload the following documentation, using the mobile registration, necessary for your appointment:
Any additional documentation related to your child’s condition will be helpful for this rehab evaluation, i.e. school IEP, Early Steps documents, prior rehab evaluations as applicable, post-surgical protocols/restrictions.
Nicklaus Children's therapists use an episodic service delivery model known as TRAAC to create an individual plan of care to meet each child's unique needs. TRAAC provides guidelines for determining duration, type and frequency of treatment based on age, diagnosis and historic information (medical, previous treatments and history). All members of the team –parents, caregivers, teachers and therapists– work together to identify therapy goals and assess progress.
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