Specialty Clinics

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The following services are supported by Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN):

• Cleft Palate / Craniofacial
• Occupational & Physical Therapy Evaluations
• Orthopedics

For more information contact a program representative at (801) 584-8520

Clinics are conducted in the following locations:

Cleft Palate Clinic / Craniofacial

Primary Children's Medical Center collaborates with Children with Special Health Care Needs (Utah Department of Health) to provide the Cleft Palate / Craniofacial Clinic.

The Craniofacial Clinic was established in 1987 by the Utah Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN).  Since that time many children and their families have benefited from our team approach to coordinated care.  CSHCN prides itself in its commitment to the community by providing services in both urban and rural Utah. Primary Children's Medical Center is a regional referral center serving children in the Intermountain West and beyond.  By combining the efforts of the State of Utah and a facility dedicated entirely to children, we hope to provide the best possible care for your child

Our program centers on a team approach and coordinated care.  Each child is unique, and treatment or intervention required must be individualized.  Team care for these children arose when health care providers recognized that all of these problems could not be treated by any one specialist.

This program is located at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.  In addition, clinics are held in St. George, Blanding and Ogden.

To schedule an appointment for any location, please call (801) 588-2713 or (800) 829-8200 ext.8573.  Our CSHCN staff can send you the necessary information and will schedule a clinic appointment.

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Occupational and Physical Therapy Evaluations

The Utah Department of Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN), offers occupational and physical therapy evaluations.

Therapists at CSHCN, support children through the ages of infancy through adolescence and work as part of an interdisciplinary medical team member. Therapists provide services including assessment and referral to appropriate resources in the following areas:

• Gross motor development
• Fine motor development
• Movement and mobility including balance and coordination
• Adaptation of participation of activities of daily living
• Tone and spasticity assessment and management
• Orthotics and prosthetic assessment, wear and care
• Equipment design, fabrication, and fit
• Use of available assistive technologies
• Feeding and oral motor concerns
• Sensory processing
• Handwriting
• Visual perceptual skills

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Orthopedics

Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) provide pediatric clinics statewide. The University of Utah pediatric orthopedics staffs these clinics with CSHCN physical therapists. We evaluate orthopedic conditions such as clubfeet, hip dislocation, cerebral palsy and scoliosis. We also offer a multispecialty Osteogenesis Imperfecta clinic. To schedule an appointment you may call (801) 584-8520.

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