Children’s Therapy services are offered to children and young people who have physical problems affecting their motor development and physical wellbeing.
Assessment and treatment is from therapists specialising in children’s physiotherapy and occupational therapy. They will identify the required intervention and deliver programmes of care according to individual needs. This may include group or individual work.
Therapists will work with families, schools and other relevant practitioners to ensure consistency of care and that therapeutic intervention becomes part of the child’s or young person’s activities of daily living.
Therapy is offered to children and young people with a range of conditions which may include:
- Neonatal congenital conditions
- Pre term infants
- Orthopaedic/musculoskeletal conditions
- Respiratory conditions
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Oncology conditions
- Neuro-developmental disorders
- Cerebral Palsy
- Muscular dystrophy
- Chromosomal defects
- Developmental delay
- Developmental co-ordination difficulties
- Children who have sensory difficulties
Find out more about equipment, wheelchairs, orthoses and splints and where to get further information and advice.
