Pediatric Clinic
The Pediatric Clinic at Western Michigan University is a community enrichment program where student occupational therapists serve children and their families to support activities of daily living, play and education. Student clinicians are supervised by a licensed occupational therapist.
The focus of the Pediatric Clinic is to provide OT student facilitated evaluation and intervention from a holistic perspective. Some examples of clinics focus include increasing independence in self-care tasks like eating or dressing; increasing the ability to play with age appropriate socialization skills; learning to write more legibly; and learning strategies to stay calm and focused for engagement in the daily routine.
Services are delivered one-on-one with a student occupational therapist.
Some diagnoses of children who attend this clinic include:
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Sensory Processing Disorder
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ADHD
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Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Cerebral palsy
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Down syndrome
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Developmental delay
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Fine and gross motor dysfunction
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders
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Intellectual Disability
The pediatric clinic allows children to develop greater success in occupations that are meaningful to them.
For more information about this program, including enrollment and tuition email @email or call (269) 387-7074.
