Winter Pediatric Therapy Observation Paper

Winter pediatric therapy clinic is a great clinic for children who are in need of pediatric rehabilitation services. The three services provided by this clinic are speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. At this facility, I had the opportunity to observe clients who had language and articulation disorders. The first client I observed was a 20 year old adolescent with Autism who was nonverbal. To facilitate his way of communication, he used the Saltillo Novachat 8 (SN8), which is a communication system that offers Chat software on an Android platform. The Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) for this client used common sentences provided by his mother to help him communicate better at home. The SLP said these sentences aloud and the client was instructed to use the device to repeat those sentences. The second client I had the opportunity to observe is a 4 year old boy who had an articulation disorder. For this client the SLP used drill play to teach him new ways of producing the /b/ sound. The third client was a 4 year old boy with Autism and he was nonverbal. The therapy session for this client consisted of playing different games of his interest to help improve his communication skills. Modeling and using a great variety of gestures were effective during this session.
Even though the rooms were not that spacious, they were comfortable enough to do therapy and have all the equipment necessary for therapy in a medium size closet or cabinet. Winter pediatric therapy clinic is located at the gulfgate chase bank location, right across from the gulf freeway. Since the clinic is close to the freeway, there are a variety of restaurants and fast food locations, as well as, a shopping center which makes it a commercial