About the Occupational Therapy Services
Occupational Therapy at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia helps children from infancy to young adulthood facing the physical effects of illness and injury, and genetic and developmental disorders.
Occupational therapists are trained to help their patients achieve independence in all areas of their lives. Our team will work with your child to enhance participation in every day activities, including play and sports, so she can return to home, school or work.
Our services
Our staff offers a wide range of specialty assessment and rehabilitation services, including:
- Progression of developmental skills, including feeding
- Cognition and visual-perception
- Fine motor skills and upper extremity use
- Sensory processing
- Strengthening and conditioning
- Retraining of life skills
- Assistive technology
- Burn intervention and scar management
- Compensatory and/or adaptive techniques, including fabrication of splints and other adaptive devices
- Aquatic therapy
Our trained and licensed occupational therapists work in acute care and intensive care units, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient services, and in specialty diagnostic clinics and programs throughout the hospital including the following:
- Adaptive Equipment Clinic
- Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome (AMPS)
- Autism Integrated Care Program
- Brachial Plexus Program
- Cancer Center
- Cardiac Kids Developmental Follow-up Program
- Career Path Clinic
- Cerebral Palsy Program
- Division of Orthopedics
- Early Head Start
- Facial Motion Disorders Program
- Hand Transplantation Program
- International Adoption Health Program
- Leukodystrophy Center
- Lung Transplant Program
- Neuromuscular Program
- Newborn and Infant Chronic Lung Disease Program
- Metabolic Disease Program/Connective Tissue Clinic
- Neonatal Follow-up Program
- Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Center
- Pediatric Stroke Program
- Trisomy 21 Program
- Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit (N/IICU)