Pediatric Therapy

Welcome to Platte Valley Medical Center's Pediatric Therapy program.

We are committed to providing child-friendly services for newborns, infants, toddlers, children and adolescents.

Our Occupational (OT), Physical (PT), and Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) services include:

• Free community screens for children from birth to five years old to help identify delays in the development of speech, feeding, mobility, writing/fine motor skills and sensory processing.

• Outpatient pediatric therapy services (OT, PT, SLP)

• Special Care Nursery Consultations

PEDIATRIC THERAPY

Our team evaluates and treats children with a variety of medical diagnoses, including but not limited to:

• Autism Spectrum Disorders

• ADD/ADHD

• Cleft lip and/or palate

• Genetic syndromes

• Joint and/or bone injury

• Muscular disease and/or injury

• Neurological injury and/or syndromes

• PDD/Developmental Delays

• Post-surgical events

• Prematurity

• Respiratory impairments (trach, chronic ear infections)

• Sensory Integration Disorders

• Torticollis

Occupational Therapy addresses fine motor skills, coordination and motor planning, strength and endurance, self-care skills, social skills, sensorimotor assessment and intervention, splinting and adaptive equipment, and developmental delays.

Physical Therapy includes gait training, musculoskeletal strength, endurance and flexibility training, balance and coordination development, motor planning, treatment for torticollis, toe-walking, developmental delays and abnormal muscle tone, and neonatal sensorimotor assessment and intervention.

Speech Language Pathology evaluates and treats delays and/or disorders in receptive and/or expressive language, auditory processing, articulation, voice, fluency, oral motor functioning, feeding and swallowing. These can be medically or non-medically based.

Our team works closely with parents, medical and educational professionals to provide coordinated services.

Free Pediatric Community Screens are 30-minute sessions and occur on the first Friday of each month. Appointments are available by calling the Physical Medicine Department at 303-498-1840. Upon completion of the screening, recommendations are provided to the parent and child's physician.

EVALUATIONS

Single Discipline Evaluation

A single discipline evaluation can refer to other disciplines as warranted and is referred by a physician order for a specific concern.

Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy services are provided by Platte Valley Medical Center and Speech-Language Therapy services are provided by the office of Carol I. Chadwick & Associates

Team Evaluation

A team evaluation is a joint evaluation to address multiple concerns. A physician's prescription is required to determine the inclusion of the best combination of the three disciplines, depending on the child's needs. This evaluation may incorporate play-based activities or more formal testing to determine the child's functioning level. Recommendations and a plan of treatment with parent involvement are developed after the initial evaluation. An evaluation report will be given to the parent and sent to the referring physician.

Treatment

Treatment models include individual and co-treatments between disciplines. An ongoing collaborative approach between disciplines benefit the whole child.

Our Therapy Team

Speech Therapists

Carol Chadwick MS, CCC-SLP graduated with her master's degree in Speech Language Pathology from Colorado State University and then worked in Denver area hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and private practice. For the past 20 years she has been developing her practice, Carol I. Chadwick MS, CCC-SLP & Associates. During this time she has been affiliated with Platte Valley Medical Center. Carol's special interests include oral motor, articulation, voice, cleft palate, fluency, and feeding and swallowing.

Anna DiLello MS, CCC-SLP received her bachelor of arts from Connecticut College in 2000 then worked for Perkins School for the Blind for 2 1/2 years. She then graduated from Boston University with a MS in Speech Language Pathology in 2004. Anna has worked with the birth-to-three population for over three years and currently works with children of all ages. Her areas of interest include feeding, oral motor, articulation, and cleft lip and palate.

Sandy Milway MS, CCC-SLP received her master's degree in Speech Language Pathology from Colorado State University and has been in practice for over 20 years. Her experiences range from adults in hospital and nursing home settings, to toddlers through high school students in the public school and private practice settings. She has been an employee at Platte Valley Medical Center since 2000 and with the practice of Carol I. Chadwick & Associates since 2003. Her areas of interest are Autism Spectrum Disorders, auditory processing, oral motor functioning, and neurologically based disorders.

Occupational Therapist

Renee Gross OTR has a bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from Colorado State University and has worked with patients for over 15 years. She has worked in outpatient clinics serving pediatric and adult clients, nursing homes and assisted living centers, Denver-area hospitals, and home health settings. Renee has worked at Platte Valley Medical Center since 2003. Her areas of interest include hand therapy, sensory integration and neuro-developmental treatment.

Physical Therapists

Karen Vizyak earned her bachelor of science in Kinesiology at the University of Colorado and her Master of Science in Physical Therapy at Texas Woman's University. A therapist since 1995, Karen has practiced at Platte Valley Medical Center since 2000. Her background includes extensive training in orthopedics, manual therapy, sensory integration and neuro-developmental treatment, as well as certification in the Pilates exercise method.

Rose Scrivner received a bachelor's degree in General Science with a Pre-Health Professional Emphasis at Seattle University prior to learning her doctorate in physical therapy at Arizona School of Health Sciences. She has experience working on the Neonatal Intensive Care unit (NICU), Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), oncology floor, trach floor epilepsy unit and she has expertise in outpatient and home health physical therapy.