This year has brought a lot of changes to the Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic (PRC).  We have relocated and joined all the other clinical services in the basement of McKinley Lab.  Our central location has allowed for more collaboration among a variety of clinical expertise – and lots of smiles from many of our older adults as children flit around the clinic.

The PRC has developed a relationship with The College School.  The College School is located on the campus of the University and serves school-age students in 1st through 8th grade who demonstrate learning differences (e.g. reading disabilities such as dyslexia, learning disabilities, attention issues, etc) that interfere with school success.  This new collaboration has been a fun and exciting experience both for providing educational occupational and speech language therapies for children, as well as for opportunities to expand experiences for several of our graduate students to observe and work with a different age group of children.

This year we were able to offer two full-time clinical internships as well as several part-time integrated experiences in pediatrics.  We have enjoyed a growth in interest in pediatrics by many of our students.

The PRC has been busy presenting on topics of pediatric rehabilitation and integrated services in childcare. Megan Schaefer, our associate director, has been able to contribute some of her neurological expertise to our Neurologic and Older Adult Clinic and we look forward to expanding our integration of NOA and Pediatric divisions over the coming year to help provide care for persons with neurologic issues across the lifespan.

Megan K. Schaefer, PT, DPT, PCS Associate Director Pediatric Rehabilitation Clinic University of Delaware PT Clinic