About Our Services
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Skilled Nursing
At Little Dreamers PPEC skilled nursing involves providing specialized nursing care to children with complex medical needs. Our skilled nurses play a crucial role in promoting the well-being and quality of life for pediatric patients and their families. Here is a description of what pediatric skilled nursing entails at Little Dreamers PPEC: Assessing and Monitoring; Our nurses perform comprehensive assessments of the child's medical condition, including vital signs, physical examination, and ongoing monitoring of symptoms and progress. They closely observe and document changes in the child's health status and communicate with the healthcare team to ensure appropriate interventions; Medication Administration, nurses are responsible for administering medications to children, including oral medications, injections, intravenous (IV) therapies, and other specialized treatments. They ensure accurate dosing, monitor for any adverse reactions or side effects, and educate caregivers on medication administration and management; Wound Care and Dressing Changes; Ventilator and Respiratory Care; Feeding Assistance and Nutrition Support, Catheterization and Ostomy Care, Patient and Family Education, Care Coordination, with interdisciplinary healthcare teams; Emotional Support, provide emotional support, compassion, and advocacy to help families cope with the challenges they face. They establish trusting relationships with patients and families, addressing their concerns and providing reassurance.
Physical Therapy
Pediatric Physical Therapy optimizes quality of life through prescribed exercise, hands-on care, and parent education. Physical Therapists teach patients how to prevent or manage their condition so that they will achieve long-term health benefits. By using their expertise in movement, Physical Therapists can apply clinical reasoning through the process of evaluation, examination, diagnosis, and intervention.
At Little Dreamers PPEC our pediatric physical therapists examine each child and work in collaboration with a child’s pediatrician and their family to provide services aimed at promoting a child’s ability to function independently and participate actively in home, school, and community environments.
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The role of our physical therapy sessions are to help children who have difficulty with functional movement, poor balance, and challenges moving through out their environment successfully. The goal is to promote independence, increase participation, facilitate motor development and function, improve strength and endurance, enhance learning opportunities, and ease challenges with daily caregiving.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy in a PPEC setting assists individuals throughout their infant, childhood, and adolescence developmental stages, to help perform everyday tasks and adapt to their social environment through specialized therapies. These therapies consist of Activities of daily living, cognition, and coordination exercises.
Little Dreamers PPEC occupational therapists evaluate the child and their environment to gather information needed to make a decision about intervention planning. Evaluation consists of the child’s performance skills such as gross motor skills, fine motor skills, cognitive skills, ADL’s, social skills, and process skills
Occupational therapy begins with the child but we encourage family members to build an ongoing relationship with our Occupational Therapists. Parents should communicate with the therapist as it is important for the parent or aide to be involved in setting up and encouraging the child’s therapy goals.
Parent observation and participation is encouraged as it builds an understanding of the child’s experience in therapy and fantastic way to connect with your child and assist in handling everyday tasks in a more efficient way.
Speech Therapy
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs), often called or referred to as speech therapists work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive communication, and swallowing disorders in children.
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A speech therapist can help kids with different kinds of speech difficulties as well as language issues like dyslexia and dyspraxia. Our SLPs can help with articulation problems, fluency problems, voice problems and oral feeding problems such as eating, swallowing and drooling. They can also treat receptive, expressive and pragmatic problems. Parents are key to the success of a child’s progress in speech or language therapy. Kids who benefit most and with the longest-lasting results are those whose parents were involved. SLP therapists use a variety of strategies, including:
Language intervention activities: The SLP will interact with a child by playing and talking, using pictures, books, objects, or ongoing events to stimulate language development. The therapist may model correct vocabulary and grammar, and use repetition exercises to build language skills.
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Articulation therapy: Articulation, or sound production, exercises involve having the therapist model correct sounds and syllables in words and sentences for a child, often during play activities. The level of play is age-appropriate and related to the child’s specific needs.
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Oral-motor/feeding and swallowing therapy: The SLP may use a variety of oral exercises — including facial massage and various tongue, lip, and jaw exercises — to strengthen the muscles of the mouth for eating, d
At Little Dreamers PPEC our goal is to help kids learn to speak more clearly and make them feel more confident when speaking to others. Kids can benefit socially, emotionally and academically from our speech therapy sessions.
Behavior Therapy
Behavioral Therapy involves minimizing anxiety, learning alternative ideas, and learning that feelings and moods alter behavior. The connections between our thoughts and our actions are powerful. Behavioral therapies for children and adolescents primarily focus on how some problematic thoughts or negative behaviors may unknowingly or unintentionally get reinforced within a young person’s environment. These undesirable thoughts and behaviors often increase due to the contribution of the reinforcement.
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Through Behavioral therapy, children and adolescents are encouraged to try new behaviors, reward desired behaviors, and allow unwanted behaviors to be ignored.
Like most therapy programs, at Little Dreamers PPEC we look to extend the knowledge to the child’s home. That is why a key focus is to develop and teach parents how to reinforce desirable behaviors in their children, discourage unwanted behaviors, and improve parent-child interactions.
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In this form of therapy, the parent plays a significant role in treating their child’s behavior problems. During these therapy sessions, parents learn how to carefully observe their child’s behaviors at home and are taught skills to reward their child’s positive behaviors by using praise, positive attention, and rewards. They are also taught to use rule-setting, time-out, and ignoring to discourage bad behaviors.
Respiratory Therapy
A Respiratory Therapist is a certified medical professional who specializes in providing healthcare for your lungs. They have advanced knowledge of high-tech equipment, such as mechanical ventilators.
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Our Respiratory Therapists focus on newborn and childhood cardiopulmonary issues and help improve outcomes for children with asthma, pneumonia, emphysema, lung trauma, and other diagnoses. Respiratory Therapists work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children.
Educational Activities
Little Dreamers PPEC pediatric educational activities encompass a wide range of interactive and engaging experiences designed to promote learning and development in our children. These activities are tailored to the specific age group and cater to various areas of development, including cognitive, language, social, emotional, and physical skills. Our pediatric educational activities are designed to be engaging, age-appropriate, and foster a love for learning. Little dreamers PPEC aims to nurture your child's natural curiosity, promote holistic development, and create a supportive and stimulating learning environment.