Pediatric Core Strengthening Class

Free Speech & Language Screening

What is a screening?

A speech and language screening assesses a child’s abilities in the areas of: voice (tone, loudness), articulation (pronouncing sounds), fluency (stuttering), and language (understanding and using words).

 
Who is a candidate for a screening?

Any child, ages 3-5, who has shown cause for concern relating to speech and language development.   

 
How long will the screening [...]

Free Infant Massage Classes for Parents

 Learn how to:

Relieve stress for your infant and you
 Ease colic and promote healthy digestion
Improve immunity and circulation
Promote relaxation and deep sleep
Aid growth and development  
Soothe your baby and have fun!

When: Class A: Saturdays May 2 nd , 16 th and 23 rd or Class B: May 2 nd , 3 rd and 16 th .  From [...]

Interactive Metronome

 
Interactive Metronome® was developed in the early 1990s and immediately proved of great benefit to children diagnosed with learning and developmental disorders.  Backed by years of clinical research and supported by prominent medical leaders in the industry, IM is now known as a breakthrough intervention to help those patients increase attention and concentration, motor control [...]

Parenting Class- Sensory Integration Education Training

Presented by Kavita Patil, MOTR/L and Krystal Butgereit, MSOTR/L, St. Luke’s ♦ Idaho Elks Pediatric Rehabilitation Services
 
Date: Thursday, April 2nd
Time: 7-8:30 p.m.
Location: St. Luke’s Meridian, lower level conference rooms
Registration Deadline: Friday, March 27th
 
During this in-service we will discuss what Sensory Integration is, how and why it is used, [...]

Parent Education Classes

St. Luke’s * Idaho Elks Pediatric Services will be providing educational courses for the parents and care providers of our patients as well as children in the community.  The next parent training is scheduled for Thursday, February 5th, 2008.  Time is from 7-8:30pm and will be held in the Pauite Room, located in the lower [...]

PARENT EDUCATION TRAINING

St. Luke’s * Idaho Elks Pediatric Services will be providing educational courses for the parents and care providers of our patients.  These courses will continue on the 1st Thursday of every other month.
 
DATE:  Thursday, October 16th, 2008
TIME:  6:30-8:30 pm
LOCATION:  St. Luke’s Hospital in Meridian, Paiute Room located in the lower level conference rooms
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday October 10th, [...]

Summertime Parenting Tips

Now that summer time is upon us, it is important to remember that all children will continue to need structure, as well as time to play and be a child!  Now that you are spending more time at home with your child it can be easy to become overwhelmed and frustrated.  Remembering to use a [...]

Torticollis and Plagiocephaly in Infants

What is torticollis?
Torticollis is the shortening of muscles in the neck causing a rotation or bending of the cervical spine.  Congenital torticollis (present at birth) may be caused by malpositioning of the head in the uterus, or by prenatal injury of the muscles or blood supply in the neck.  Torticollis can also be caused due [...]

AAC Camp

Wearing a cowboy hat and blue bandanna, 11-year-old Austin delivered a line from a play he’d been working on all week.
“I grabbed the snake and threw it far away, and I’m still here today,” he said.
The audience laughed. Austin smiled. And his mother, peering through the lens of a video camera, beamed. Austin, who has [...]