PT / OT Services

<>The “home” office for Physical and Occupational Therapy services in the Greene County School System can be found at the Greene County Educational Center.  As a part of special education, therapies are included as “Related Services”  “to assure that all children with disabilities have available to them…a free, appropriate public education…designed to meet their unique needs”. <>Physical therapy in the educational setting is provided to enhance the student’s opportunity for functioning within the educational environment.  The physical therapist can provide:

~       Screening and evaluation to help determine eligibility for special education.

~       Provide direct therapy services to eligible students, including exercise, gait training, gross motor skills,
  use of adaptive equipment, braces and wheelchairs.

~       Serve as resource personnel to address classroom positioning, gross motor activities, and proper lifting        
   techniques.

Occupational Therapists use activities and environmental modifications to facilitate a student’s independence and ability to participate in the educational process.  The Occupational therapist can provide:

~      Screening and evaluation to help determine eligibility for special education.

~       Provide direct therapy to eligible students including exercise and training in self-care, fine motor, visual motor, and visual processing skills, and sensory integration processing.

~     Serve as resource personnel to address classroom positioning, behaviors, fine motor activities and use of adaptive equipment and adaptive technology.

~        Providing teachers and administrators with consultations and in-service education.

~       Assist parents in dealing with the varied problems of parenting a handicapped child.

~        Liaison with Pediatricians, Orthopedists, Neurologists and other medical specialists.

Physical and Occupational therapists are health care practitioners and services require parental permission and referral from the student’s physician.  Any provided services must be part of an IEP and are to be coordinated with educational goals.

If you need to contact the therapists, please use the following:

Physical Therapist: 798-2646 Educational Center

                                552-3395 Cell Phone

Occupational Therapy:   783-7911 Takoma Outpatient Rehabilitation

                                       639-4194 Central Office – Special Education

                                       798-2646 Educational Center

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