Our rehabilitation program, Desert KIDZ, provides therapy for children and adolescents in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. Goals are family-centered and designed to help the child function as independently as possible in their home, school and community settings. Desert KIDZ provides bilingual therapy.

• Physical Therapy works with children who have developmental delays, range-of-motion limitation, strength/muscle weakness, balance difficulty and abnormal tone with the goal of promoting functional gross motor skills.
  
• Occupational Therapy helps children develop age-appropriate skills through play. The therapists address children's self-help skills, fine and gross motor skills, sensory processing skills and handwriting skills.
  
• Speech Therapy helps children who have articulation, language, voice, stuttering, feeding or swallowing disorders. Therapists focus on children's ability to be successful with all forms of communication including speaking, listening, reading, writing and cognitive development.
  

• Audiology provides newborn hearing screenings, follow-up evaluations, diagnostic testing, hearing aid fitting and evaluation. More Info 

Feeding & Swallowing Program
We treat feeding and swallowing difficulties including:

The Speech Pathology Department also provides a specialized test of swallowing called FEES, which stands for Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing.  The FEES evaluation is used to assist the therapist and physician in identifying aspiration of food/liquid into the lungs.  This procedure can be performed while a child is hospitalized or as an outpatient.