Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy

Distance Learning:

Letter from PT

Please check the PT Website for more weekly lessons and resources:

https://sites.google.com/view/gengrascenterotpt/home 

• Week of 6/15/20:

  • The relevance/importance of trunk muscles

  • Motor planning and what it is

  • The importance of physical activity and three fun summer activity calendars!

• Week of 6/8/20:
  • Newsletter: focus on a yoga pose for hip stretch 
  • Core-strength
  • Bilateral-coordination
  • Balance
• Week of 6/1/20:
  • Newsletter update
  • New exercises for small spaces
• Week of 5/25/20:
  • Stretching for Wheelchair users
  • Beginner exercise video for kids, adults, and people with disabilities
  • Wheelchair Dance Fitness
  • Newsletter update
  • New ‘Heavy Work’ activities
• Week of 5/18/20:
  • Newsletter focus: fine motor
  • Patriotic Yoga for Memorial Day
• Week of 5/11/20:
  • May Week 2
  • New Move Like Me activities under Motor planning
  • New Animal Walks for Core Strength
• Week of 5/4/20:
  • This weeks Newsletter
  • New activities are posted on the ROM page   
• Week of 4/27/20:
  • Gross Motor skills and Independent Dressing
  • Motor Planning
• Week of 4/20/20:
  • Scram Motor Planning game
• Week of 3/30/20:
  • Recommendations to Reinforce Physical Therapy Goals at Home
  • Indoor_Recess_Packet

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Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy are based on the individual needs of our students so they are able to access and benefit from special education. All evaluations, assessments, consultations and treatment plans are performed by licensed therapists. Our therapists work with students in small groups or one-on-one as well as consulting with teaching staff to effectively incorporate strategies into the classroom.

The Gengras Center provides Physical Therapy services to students who require intervention to effectively participate in and receive their education. Services are provided in a variety of settings (classroom, hallways, therapy room, community), both directly and indirectly, through collaborative efforts between the Physical Therapist, parents, other therapists, classroom staff, and medical professionals. Services are delivered in accordance with the IEP and Connecticut State Guidelines with an emphasis on removing barriers from a students’ ability to learn, working to increase independence in the educational environment, developing functional abilities and working with school staff to adapt and modify the environment and equipment.

Physical therapy interventions that may be addressed to meet a student’s educational needs include, but are not limited to the following areas;

• Gait Training and Functional Mobility
• Gross Motor Play
• Strength, Endurance & Flexibility
• Postural Stability
• Body Awareness
• Balance Activities
• Adaptive Equipment