Nearly one million American children suffer traumatic brain injuries every year. Many of these children have difficulty with cognitive and motor skills, communication, and academic achievement. Ranken Jordan provides child-centered rehabilitation services to address these children's specific needs.

Because children are still growing, developing, and maturing, pediatric brain injury rehabilitation presents a special challenge. To be most effective, treatment activities must be creative and age-appropriate, allowing children to learn through play and everyday activities.

Ranken Jordan's innovative program has been highly successful. The inter-disciplinary treatment permits health care professionals, social workers and educators-each with special talents and skills-to work as a team.

Together, these professionals provide individualized programs, breaking each task into a series of attainable steps to promote maximum development for each child, smoothing the child's re-entry into home, school, and community. Families, too, are an essential part of this rehabilitation process.

Program services include:

• Professional nursing care

• Occupational therapy

• Physical therapy

• Therapeutic recreation

• Child life services

• Speech and language therapy

• Cognitive retraining

• Tutoring and educational support

• Social services

• Psychological testing

• Counseling for children and families

• School and community re-integration

• Behavior management training

• Home accessibility assessment

The brain injury rehabilitation program is available for children from 2 weeks through age 18. Although, children must be medically stable to participate, they are provided with acute rehabilitation and therapy while they are in the program.