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IU Health Ball Pediatric Rehabilitation Services

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When you visit IU Health Ball Pediatric Rehabilitation Services in Muncie, you'll receive care designed for your specific needs. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call 765.254.9717.

Our highly skilled team believes in treating you as a whole person - not just a symptom. At IU Health Ball Pediatric Rehabilitation Services, you’ll have access to a broad range of rehabilitation services.

IU Health Ball Pediatric Rehabilitation provides Occupational, Physical, Speech and Feeding therapy for children ages birth to 13 years of age. Therapy focuses on improving independence and increasing participation in everyday life.

Physical Therapy

Our physical therapists can perform evaluations and provide treatment for all children needing help with gross motor or developmental skills. We use a variety of playful activities to encourage independence in any stage of rolling, sitting, crawling, standing, walking and more advanced skills to reach their full potential.

  • Developmental Delay: treatment to address delays in strength, balance, and coordination to progress age-appropriate skills.
  • Genetic Conditions: work with children to reduce delays caused by abnormal muscle tone, alignment, delayed gross motor skills, and other congenital deformities.
  • Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT)
  • Neurological and Neuromuscular Rehab: treatment for conditions such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, traumatic brain injury and many other diagnoses. Includes pediatrics.
  • Orthotics, Prosthetics and Equipment: We work in collaboration with local providers to assess children’s needs for orthoses, prosthetics and adaptive equipment.
  • Pediatric therapy
  • Serial Casting: positional casting to address toe walking, muscle shortening, decreased range of motion to improve balance, foot/ankle alignment and gross motor function.
  • Torticollis and Positional Head Shaping: treatment of stretching, strengthening, and positioning for improved neck alignment, postural symmetry, and soft tissue mobility.

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapists take a holistic approach to treatment and modify daily tasks so children can improve their participation and independence. Interventions are child/family centered and are play based. Our services include interventions for:

  • Activities of Daily Living Delays: Treatments to train and adapt self-care skills that are appropriate for a child’s age and abilities.
  • Fine Motor Delays: interventions to improve cutting, handwriting, grasp patterns and hand/finger strength.
  • Sensory Integration Disorders: Interventions for sensory regulation and strategies for sensory home programs.
  • Visual Motor Delays: interventions to improve visual tracking, handwriting, coloring and coordination.

Speech Therapy

Our speech-language pathologists provide evaluation and therapy services for children birth to age 13 with communication, cognitive, neurological, and/or swallowing impairments. Our services include:

  • Articulation/Phonology Therapy: treatment for communication needs including production of variety of speech sounds.
  • Augmentative Alternative Communication Therapy: establish and expand a child’s use of communication devices for individuals with severe expressive communication disorders.
  • Autism
  • Feeding Therapy: treatment for any infant or child having difficulty with feeding skills including sucking, chewing and/or swallowing. We also offer therapy to children with limited food acceptance to expand the variety of textures and flavors in their diet.
  • Fluency
  • Language Therapy: comprehension or understanding of spoken language and language expression.
  • Orton-Gillingham Literacy Therapy: a multisensory (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile) approach to reading/writing instruction.
  • Voice disorders

We also provide assessment and treatment for use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), including both low-tech and high-tech modalities.

NICU Developmental Follow-Up Clinic

Our multidisciplinary team sees infants and toddlers who were previously in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and/or meet the criteria that place an infant at higher risk for developmental delays.

These patients are followed by physical, occupational, and speech therapy to periodically assess for delays or deficits that would require further skilled therapy intervention and to provide parent education. This helps ensure these patients receive any necessary services early for best possible outcomes.

About Pediatric Rehabilitation Services

IU Health Ball Pediatric Rehabilitation provides Occupational, Physical, Speech and Feeding therapy for children ages birth to 13 years of age. Therapy focuses on improving independence and increasing participation in everyday life.

Physical Therapy

Our physical therapists can perform evaluations and provide treatment for all children needing help with gross motor or developmental skills. We use a variety of playful activities to encourage independence in any stage of rolling, sitting, crawling, standing, walking and more advanced skills to reach their full potential.

  • Developmental Delay: treatment to address delays in strength, balance, and coordination to progress age-appropriate skills.
  • Genetic Conditions: work with children to reduce delays caused by abnormal muscle tone, alignment, delayed gross motor skills, and other congenital deformities.
  • Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT)
  • Neurological and Neuromuscular Rehab: treatment for conditions such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, traumatic brain injury and many other diagnoses. Includes pediatrics.
  • Orthotics, Prosthetics and Equipment: We work in collaboration with local providers to assess children’s needs for orthoses, prosthetics and adaptive equipment.
  • Pediatric therapy
  • Serial Casting: positional casting to address toe walking, muscle shortening, decreased range of motion to improve balance, foot/ankle alignment and gross motor function.
  • Torticollis and Positional Head Shaping: treatment of stretching, strengthening, and positioning for improved neck alignment, postural symmetry, and soft tissue mobility.

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapists take a holistic approach to treatment and modify daily tasks so children can improve their participation and independence. Interventions are child/family centered and are play based. Our services include interventions for:

  • Activities of Daily Living Delays: Treatments to train and adapt self-care skills that are appropriate for a child’s age and abilities.
  • Fine Motor Delays: interventions to improve cutting, handwriting, grasp patterns and hand/finger strength.
  • Sensory Integration Disorders: Interventions for sensory regulation and strategies for sensory home programs.
  • Visual Motor Delays: interventions to improve visual tracking, handwriting, coloring and coordination.

Speech Therapy

Our speech-language pathologists provide evaluation and therapy services for children birth to age 13 with communication, cognitive, neurological, and/or swallowing impairments. Our services include:

  • Articulation/Phonology Therapy: treatment for communication needs including production of variety of speech sounds.
  • Augmentative Alternative Communication Therapy: establish and expand a child’s use of communication devices for individuals with severe expressive communication disorders.
  • Autism
  • Feeding Therapy: treatment for any infant or child having difficulty with feeding skills including sucking, chewing and/or swallowing. We also offer therapy to children with limited food acceptance to expand the variety of textures and flavors in their diet.
  • Fluency
  • Language Therapy: comprehension or understanding of spoken language and language expression.
  • Orton-Gillingham Literacy Therapy: a multisensory (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile) approach to reading/writing instruction.
  • Voice disorders

We also provide assessment and treatment for use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), including both low-tech and high-tech modalities.

NICU Developmental Follow-Up Clinic

Our multidisciplinary team sees infants and toddlers who were previously in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and/or meet the criteria that place an infant at higher risk for developmental delays.

These patients are followed by physical, occupational, and speech therapy to periodically assess for delays or deficits that would require further skilled therapy intervention and to provide parent education. This helps ensure these patients receive any necessary services early for best possible outcomes.

IU Health accepts most insurance plans. We recommend that you verify your benefits and eligibility with your insurance company before your visit.

Insurance

IU Health accepts most insurance plans. We recommend that you verify your benefits and eligibility with your insurance company before your visit.

Prior to your appointment, please bring the following:

  • Insurance and identification card(s)
  • A copy of relevant medical records
  • A list of current medications, including over-the-counter medicines and supplements

For your first visit, please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled appointment to complete any outstanding paperwork.

Preparing for Your Appointment

Prior to your appointment, please bring the following:

  • Insurance and identification card(s)
  • A copy of relevant medical records
  • A list of current medications, including over-the-counter medicines and supplements

For your first visit, please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled appointment to complete any outstanding paperwork.

We offer free parking available on site.

Parking

We offer free parking available on site.

The My IU Health patient portal makes it easy for you to navigate to self-schedule appointments with select providers, send messages to your care team, view results and pay a bill.

My IU Health Patient Portal

The My IU Health patient portal makes it easy for you to navigate to self-schedule appointments with select providers, send messages to your care team, view results and pay a bill.