Rehabilitation Services

For information and assistance (361) 694-KIDS (5437)

Our mission is to provide comprehensive, family-centered habilitative and rehabilitative services to infants, children and adolescents. Programs are tailored for a variety of diagnosis including brain and spinal cord injury, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, sensory integrative dysfunction, hearing impairments, crano-facial anomalies, speech/language/learning disorders, feeding/ swallowing disorders, and many other developmental, orthopaedic, neurological, and neuromuscular disorders.

Through the coordinated efforts of the rehabilitation team and the patient's primary physician, a continuum of care can be provided in the hospital, within the educational setting, at home and through outpatient programs.

Inpatient and outpatient evaluation and treatment services include:

Physical Therapy

Gross motor development
Seating and Mobility Equipment
Sensory-Integration
Gait training
Aquatics
Whirlpool /Wound care
Serial Casting/Transitional Orthotics
Sports Rehabilitation

Occupational Therapy

Aquatics
Fine motor development
Functional cognition
Activities of daily living
Sensory-integration
Perceptual skills
Wound care
Serial Casting/Upper extremity orthotics
Hand function
Therapeutic Listening

Speech-Language Pathology

Communication Skills
Pre-linguistic/Cognitive Skills
Feeding/Swallowing disorders
Oral-motor development
Speech and language development/disorders
Fluency disorders
Vital-Stim therapy
Voice disorders
Augmentative/alternative communication

Audiology

Behavioral Audiometry
Visual Reinforcement Audiometry
Central Auditory Processing Disorder Evaluations
Custom Ear/swim molds
Auditory Brainstem Response Testing
Impedance/Immittance Tympanometry
Hearing Aid Fitting and Dispensing
Assistive Listening Devices
Play Audiometry

For Additional Information

Gary Bobele, MD
Pediatric Neurology
Medical Director

Carol Deline, MD
Pediatric Neurology
Medical Director

Susan Fields, MS, CCC/SLP
Director of Rehabilitation Services

Driscoll Children's Rehabilitation and Medical Center
3533 S. Alameda Street
Corpus Christi, Texas 78411
Phone: 694-KIDS (5437)
Fax: (361) 694-4821

Driscoll Children's Hospital is committed to providing service to all children.

To determine if a child qualifies for financial assistance or for support with insurance pre-authorization, contact Driscoll Children's Hospital’s Patient Financial Services at
(361) 694–5111.

Making an Appointment / Referral
A physician prescription or referral is required prior to making an appointment. A referral form can be obtained by calling (361) 694-4533 or
(361) 694-6135.

Referrals can be faxed to (361) 694-4821

For More Information
To make an appointment or for more information, call (361) 694-KIDS (5437).

Rehabilitation Services

Inpatient and outpatient evaluation and treatment services include:

Physical Therapy

Occupational Therapy

Speech-Language Pathology

Audiology

For Additional Information

Rehabilitation Services

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