Nearly one million American children suffer traumatic brain injuries every year. Many of these children have difficulty with cognitive and motor skills, communication, and academic achievement. Ranken Jordan provides child-centered rehabilitation services to address these children's specific needs.
Because children are still growing, developing, and maturing, pediatric brain injury rehabilitation presents a special challenge. To be most effective, treatment activities must be creative and age-appropriate, allowing children to learn through play and everyday activities.
Ranken Jordan's innovative program has been highly successful. The inter-disciplinary treatment permits health care professionals, social workers and educators-each with special talents and skills-to work as a team.
Together, these professionals provide individualized programs, breaking each task into a series of attainable steps to promote maximum development for each child, smoothing the child's re-entry into home, school, and community. Families, too, are an essential part of this rehabilitation process.
Program services include:
- Professional nursing care
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Therapeutic recreation
- Child life services
- Speech and language therapy
- Cognitive retraining
- Tutoring and educational support
- Social services
- Psychological testing
- Counseling for children and families
- School and community re-integration
- Behavior management training
- Home accessibility assessment
The brain injury rehabilitation program is available for children from 2 weeks through age 18. Although, children must be medically stable to participate, they are provided with acute rehabilitation and therapy while they are in the program.