About Us
Mission Statement
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The Pediatric Therapy Center’s mission is to equip children with the skills necessary to grow and develop to their fullest potential. We will strive to provide quality therapy services to children alongside their families/caregivers. Our desire is for each child to learn how to play, function and be successful in all they do.
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We believe all children should be empowered to reach their full potential and excel in their environment. We encourage parent participation in the treatment process to better support children reaching their full potential.
Vision Statement
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Vision Statement
Our vision is to provide an integrated multidisciplinary approach that restores and builds health to the physical, sensory and neurological well-being of our patients. Our goal is to provide exceptional care that focuses on function for children of all abilities, helping them to achieve their fullest potential.
Our Services
Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Pediatric Occupational Therapy addresses daily living skills for children of all ability levels using a fun, meaningful approach.
Areas of concern may include:
- Self-care skills (dressing, bathing, toileting, and tooth brushing)
- Executive functioning skills
- Fine motor coordination
- Handwriting
- Visual perception (the ability to make sense of what we see)
- Visual motor Integration (eye-hand coordination
- Sensory processing differences or difficulties
- Play and social interaction
- Motor planning
Pediatric Physical Therapy
Pediatric physical therapy involves total body physical rehabilitation due to injury, disease, or gross motor disorder. The goal of physical therapy is to restore and/or progress motor skills and mobility to achieve the highest potential outcomes for each individual child
Areas of concern may include:
- Walking and/or general mobility
- Toe walking
- Muscle strength and endurance
- Increased or low muscle tone
- Limitations in range of motion
- Balance
- Motor planning and coordination difficulties
- Skeletal growth, alignment and integrity
- Developmental delays in gross motor skills (rolling, sitting, crawling, etc.)
- Torticollis and Plagiocephaly
Aquatic Therapy
Aquatic therapy utilizes the physical properties of water to assist in patient healing and exercise performance. Aquatic therapy will provide the child the freedom to move their body in ways that are more challenging on land. Aquatic therapy can help children learn skills that they can transition and perfect during traditional land-based sessions.
Aquatic therapy sessions are currently conducted at the Downtown YMCA
Interactive Metronome
Interactive Metronome is an evidence-based training and assessment tool. It is proven to improve cognition, attention, focus, memory, speech/language, executive functioning, comprehension, as well as motor and sensory skills.
Sensory Based Feeding Therapy
Sensory based feeding therapy is a cognitive behavioral approach for children that are picky eaters or have food aversions that are significantly limiting their diet and ability to participate in social food experiences.
Treatment Approaches may include:
- Sensory Integration/Sensory Diet
- NDT (neurodevelopment treatment)
- Strengthening/coordination training
- Neuromuscular Re-education for balance and proprioception
- Handwriting programs
- ADL (activities of daily living) training
- Adaptive equipment and or environmental modifications
- Community Intergration
- Aquatic Therapy
- Interactive Metronome
- Sensory Based feeding therapy
- Home programs/parent training
Our Team
Cheryl Jabara , DPT
Cheryl is a 2003 graduate of the University of Kansas Medical Center. Cheryl has been a pediatric physical therapist for 20 years. She has worked in a variety of settings such as home-based early intervention, acute care/hospital based, school based but most extensively in the outpatient setting. In 2022, she was recognized by the Wichita Business Journal for Excellence in Health Care. Cheryl has specialized training in aquatic therapy, neuro-development treatment, gait analysis (toe walking) and treatment for torticollis and plagiocephaly.
She has presented lectures on Exercise Prescription for Children with Disabilities and Congenital Muscular Torticollis and Deformational Plagiocephaly. Cheryl has also participated as a data collector for the On Track Study that looked at developmental trajectories and reference percentiles for range of motion, muscle strength and endurance for children with cerebral palsy.
Cheryl is passionate about working with children and their families on ways to achieve their goals and reach their fullest potential in order for them to become as independent as possible later in life.
Cheryl is married and has 2 daughters. In her spare time, she enjoys supporting the girls participating in their extracurricular activities, running, traveling and cheering on the Shockers or Jayhawks.
Teresa Young, OTR/L
Teresa is 1996 graduate of Newman University and has been working as a pediatric occupational therapist for over 20 years. Teresa has served children in a variety of settings including home-based early intervention, school, hospital, and outpatient settings. Teresa is a strong advocate for early intervention and a team approach. She believes child and family involvement in treatment are essential for children to thrive and reach their potential.
Teresa has specialized training in Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT) as well as Interactive Metronome.
Teresa is married and a proud mother of four amazing children. She likes to travel, read, and spend time with family and friends.