SPECIALISTS
Physiatry (Rehabilitation Medicine) specializes in the evaluation and management of neurological diseases and their consequences such as weakness, spasticity, vision problems, pain, speech, cognitive and behavior problems.
Rehabilitation Neuropsychology services include comprehensive neurocognitive evaluations, psychological evaluations, individual psychotherapy, and marital therapy. Neuropsychology services focus on assessing the impact of cognitive and behavioral impairments on daily life functioning and emotional adjustment as well as providing interventions to facilitate adjustment and adaptation.
Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) services include evaluation and treatment of speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders such as apraxia, dysarthria, aphasia, cognitive-linguistic deficits, and dysphagia. Speech-Language pathology also offers support with augmentative and alternative communication and tracheostomy dependency.
Occupational Therapy (OT) maximizes function of an individual with a physical, cognitive, and/or emotional disability in self care, home management, community living, work skills, and leisure activities. Through adaptation, splinting, retraining, and education, occupational therapy increases a person’s ability to participate in meaningful tasks in the home and the community specific to that particular individual increasing independence in function.
Physical Therapy (PT) diagnoses and manages neurological movement dysfunction, promotes health, and enhances physical and functional abilities. Within this, PT provides wound care, vestibular rehabilitation, wheelchair and assistive device assessment, worker testing, and ergonomic training.
Social Work (SW) provides for psychosocial and practical needs of patients and families by providing intervention, identifying resources, and making referrals to other facilities and programs to meet the clinical and functional needs of patients. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kathleen B. Kortte, Ph.D., ABPP(RP), Program Director
Pablo Celnik, MD, Medical Director
