Pediatrics

Paramount Programs are Custom Designed for Children

Providing therapy for children requires more than just scaled-down equipment. At Paramount, we understand that children have unique concerns and needs. We have therapists who specialize in providing Orthopedic Rehabilitation, Neurological Rehabilitation, and Speech Therapy to pediatric patients from newborns to 21 years old.

In our Bay City facility, a fish tank in the waiting room keeps kids entertained while parents complete paperwork. Treatment takes place in rooms covered in bright murals and filled with toys. For children who have difficulty taking in, sorting out, and connection information, we turn to our innovative and calming Sensory Room. The Sensory Room helps children organize their vestibular and proprioceptive systems.

Below is a sampling of our programs uniquely designed for pediatric patients. We draw on parts of all these programs to customize treatment plans that meet the unique needs of each of our patients.

Alert Program

Alert Program teaches children strategies for handling emotions that lead to behavioral issues. Therapists help children understand their emotions and work with them to develop positive ways of facing uncomfortable feelings. The Alert Program fosters sensory integration and regulation, emotional control, social thinking, and executive functioning skills for children with challenges such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, learning disabilities, and more.

Zones of Regulation

Superflex

Astronaut Protocol

The Astronaut Protocol – a sound-activated, vestibular-visual protocol – helps strengthen an individual’s ability to balance and move while simultaneously looking or listening. This relationship between movement, listening and looking is called the Vestibular-Auditory-Visual Triad. Strengthening that relationship often helps children who struggle with conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, sensory processing disorders or motor apraxia.

Beckman Oral Motor

Cognitive Rehabilitation

Handwriting without Tears

Feeding and Swallowing

Integrated Listening System

The Integrated Listening System is comprised of a bone conduction headset that filtrates classical music of varying frequencies via air conduction while the child is participating in therapy. Research on the ILS demonstrates improved body organization, fine motor control, gross motor skills, balance, attention, coordination skills, sensory processing skills, emotional regulation, social skills and self-regulation.

Interactive Metronome

Sensory Diets

Our Occupational Therapists create individualized Sensory Diets for children to incorporate into their everyday routines. The “diets” consists of proprioceptive, tactile, vestibular, oral-motor, visual auditory, and gustatory activities to help the brain learn to regulate attention and appropriate levels of arousal. Paramount also offers extensive parent education and collaborates with schools so the sensory diets are incoprorated into the child’s routine.

Serial Casting

Wilbarger Therapressure

Wilbarger Therapressure Protocol consists of brushing to upper and lower extremities, in order to reduce sensory or tactile defensiveness in children. It is used for conditions such as Sensory Processing Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Some of the benefits include improved ability to transition between daily activities, improved attention span, decreased fear or discomfort of being touched, and enhanced coordination and self-regulation.

Wilbarger Joint Compression Protocol

VitalStim and Oral Motor therapy

V.O.I.C.E.

When we create a personalized treatment plan for your child, we draw on a variety of state-of-the-art technology and techniques, including:

Pediatric Therapy helps patients whose daily living is impaired by:

ADD/ADHD
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Balance and Coordination Disorders
Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Vascular Accident
Fine and Gross Motor Delay
Head Injury
Non-Verbal Learning Disorder

Sensory Integration Disorder
Spinal Cord Injuries
Sports Injuries

Pediatrics

Paramount Programs are Custom Designed for Children

Pediatric Therapy helps patients whose daily living is impaired by:

Bay City

Saginaw

Standish