Rehab Services
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Speech-Language Pathology Services: Speech Language Pathologists evaluate and treat children with disorders in communication and swallowing. Therapy services are recommended after compressive initial evaluation. The speech-language pathologist focuses on helping children achieve their full potential in the areas of communication, feeding, and swallowing within the home, school and community. Evaluation and treatment services may include: • Communication skills • Pre-linguistic/cognitive skills • Speech and language development disorders/delays • Fluency disorders • Voice disorders • Augmentative/alternative communication • Oral motor disorder
• Feeding and swallowing disorders • Social language disorders/delays
• Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) • Expressive communication disorder/delays • Cranio-facial anomalies • Pure tone hearing screening • Aural rehabilitation Single discipline services provided in satellite locations to support specialty physicians: • Cranio-facial services in McAllen Tele-therapy Services: Driscoll Children’s Rehabilitation Services provides telehealth solution as option for medical necessity. Our goal is to continue providing quality speech therapy treatments in a safe and easily accessible manner in the comfort and safety of their own home. Audiological Services: Audiologists conduct diagnostic testing for hearing loss and auditory processing disorders. The audiologist also dispense hearing aids, provide hearing protection support and support cochlear implants. Services are provided at the main Driscoll campus in Corpus Christi and Mission, TX include the following: • Hearing testing • Hearing aid dispensing and support
• Bone conduction hearing aid dispensing and support • Cochlear Implant programming and management • Newborn hearing screening • Auditory Brainstem Response testing (under natural sleep only at the Mission, TX location)
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