York Street Medical Building

UPMC Hanover Pediatric Rehabilitation helps children experiencing a wide range of challenges to participate with their peers at home, at school, and at play. We provide occupational, physical, and speech-language therapy for children from birth until the age of 18.

Common diagnoses we can help include, but are not limited to:

• ADHD
• Autism
• Cerebral palsy
• Cognitive deficits
• Dysphagia/swallowing disorders
• Equipment needs (augmentative/adaptive equipment evaluation and training)
• Feeding issues, including sensory-based 
• Neurological conditions
• Orthopaedic conditions
• Plagiocephaly
• Scoliosis
• Spina bifida
• Torticollis

Contact Us

• Phone: 717-316-7337
• Fax: 717-316-1652

Our Hours

• Monday through Thursday – 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Friday – 8 a.m. to Noon
• Holidays – Closed on most major holidays, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Our Services

Physical Therapy

Our physical therapists help our young patients learn or re-learn how to physically interact with the world and participate in physical activities with other children. Patients may work on:

• Gross motor skills 
• Strengthening
• Balance skills
• Coordination skills
• Motor learning skills 
• Walking or other ways of moving around
• Posture, positioning, and lifting skills
• Safety awareness 
  

Occupational Therapy

A child’s ‘occupation’ is to participate in everyday daily activities, such as playing, learning, resting, interacting with friends, and getting dressed. Occupational therapy in our pediatric setting is designed to help a child learn and develop life skills, derive enjoyment from activities, and improve their ability to perform skills of daily life, including:

• Personal care 
• Play and social development
• Sensory processing 
• Fine motor skills 
• Visual and perceptual processing 
• Balance and movement
• Core stability and strengthening
• Motor (movement) planning
• Paying attention and following instructions
• Coping skills 
  

Speech Therapy

Our program provides ways for children to increase their ability to communicate. Our speech-language pathologists are specially trained to evaluate and treat the many needs of our patients in new and fun ways. Our program also offers therapy services for swallowing difficulties, in addition to speech and language, articulation, and apraxia. Common therapies help children with:

• Trouble speaking due to muscle weakness or damage or due to a neurological disorder
• Articulation and phonological processes (problems creating specific speech sounds or correcting patterns in speech)
• Language skills for expression and understanding
• Auditory (hearing) processing
• Feeding and swallowing problems
• Fluency and stuttering
• Cognitive abilities
• Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), including eye gaze
• Social and pragmatic communication
• Preverbal and nonverbal communication skills

Aquatic Therapy

The purpose of aquatic therapy is to introduce your child to exercise using warm water, which affects the body in a different way than exercise on land. It provides a new environment for working on your child’s goals. Aquatic therapy can be offered by all pediatric rehab disciplines — occupational, physical, and speech-language therapy — in our warm water pool.