05 Nov Has your Child 👧 just been given a diagnosis for her developmental delay

Did your child’s medical team 🧑‍⚕️tell you what her disabilities and weaknesses will look like 😳
Did they also tell you what her abilities and strengths are 🤔

Here at My Favourite Physio, our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists 🤓meet many families and children with Special Needs each day who come to see us to help their child learn to move better. One of questions we ask parents when we assess a child is “What would you like to see your child achieve with Physiotherapy?”
Often most parents would state that they would like to see their child sit by themselves or walk independently, which are great goals for Physiotherapy. However, many do not have a clear timeline as to when they would like to see that goal being achieved. Even fewer families have a longer term goal as to where they would like their child be achieving at school age or beyond.

Picturing a child’s future beyond the first few years of life often isn’t something most families have even considered especially with respect to a child 👶🏻 with special needs. However, here at My Favourite Physio, our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists 🤓will always consider the possibilities that the future holds for each child we see in clinic. This includes thinking about the functional skills they will require in life as an adult and their quality of life. Then we would reverse engineer what we need to do now to allow each child to fulfil their full potential in life.

Translating this into practice would mean that a child needs to learn to roll, sit, crawl and walk independently or with aids so that they have well developed hips and spines that allows them to be living an active pain free life. 🤗This also means teaching each child to communicate with eye contact and vocalising words or using nonverbal communications when at Physiotherapy.

So if you have a child with special needs and you can’t quite picture what their future potential is, why not ring My Favourite Physio on (02) 9790 4233 to speak to one of our 🤓Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists. Find out how we can help your child live their best potential in life!