Infant and Toddler Program
As part of the Infant and Toddler Program, we care for children with the following:
- Chronic lung disease or airway anomalies (ventilatory dependent)
- Medical management of feeding or swallowing difficulties
- Chromosomal or genetic disorders
- Short bowel syndrome
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
- Small bowel, heart, and other organ transplant
- Cardiac disease
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
- Complications of prematurity
- Other medically complex conditions
Our Specialized Care
The Infant and Toddler Program at Children’s Specialized
Hospital (CSH) provides intensive and comprehensive habilitation and
rehabilitation services for infants and young children ages birth to two
years with complex medical needs. The program treats children who require
all levels of pediatric care, including those who are medically fragile
and technology dependent.
When an infant or toddler is admitted, our team completes a full evaluation and together, with the family, develops a customized program and plan of care. Children who are ventilated, have tracheostomies, special feeding needs, and intravenous/central lines, can be managed while receiving therapy.
Our Individualized Approach
Our team created the Infant Toddler Clinical Tracks © to guide and support the individual and complex needs of our patients throughout their care journey. The tracks support the highest quality and most evidence-based approach to care. In addition to medical treatment, therapies may include:
- Aquatic therapy
- Bedside hydrotherapy
- Infant massage
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Speech therapy
- Child life
- Recreational therapy
- Psychology
- Nutrition/dietary
- Respiratory therapy
Supported with 24-hour medical and nursing care, our team continuously creates a nurturing and calming setting that supports the sensory needs of infants and toddlers within the hospital environment. CSH is at the forefront of technological innovations and clinical strategies such as:
- Family centered and multidisciplinary care approach to support education and training for families to care for their child
- Transition to ventilator or technology dependent children to portable ventilation allowing them to transition home
- Developmental play, learning, daily care and mobility
- Evidence-based interventions for feeding
Learn more about our Infant and Toddler Rehabilitation Program (English or Spanish)