Welcome to Kids Clinic. At Kids Clinic, we offer pediatric physical therapy, occupational therapy
and speech language therapy to local kids here in North Louisiana and East Texas. I'm excited today
to give you a look inside kids clinic so you can see what donation dollars are doing to help local
kids that includes kids like our awesome CMN hospital champion, Hunter Brerery. Hi 'm Hunter
Brerery. I have 28 surgeries and all the money you donate to salmon comes over to kids clinic it
helps it helps kids do stuff like run, walk, climb stuff they're not able to do. Welcome Kids Clinic
the therapy team here is made up of some of the most talented and compassionate people you'll
ever meet. Lisa would never tell you but she was also named the 2020 CMN hospitals achievement
award winner for all 170 CMN hospitals nationwide and she practices right here in North Louisiana.
Welcome to kids clinic. My name is Lisa.
What is physical therapy exactly? We work on things like walking, sitting, rolling,
crawling and even holding your head up. These are big things that kids need to be able to do in
order to be able to independently move about their environment and function in their everyday life.
At times, physical therapy, means working with little ones like Zaylee who needed help
with torticollis a common condition that involves weakened neck muscles. She needed a boost to help
meet developmental milestones, but at just eight and a half months she's actually set to graduate
from Kids Clinic and her therapy. We're really proud of this little one. This is a sensory room
of Kids Clinic. Today physical therapist, Sally, is working with Hillary who has spina bifida on
balance and strengthening exercises. Spina bifida can sometimes affect the way a person moves or
functions but you can see it hasn't slowed Hillary down. The sensory room gets its name because at
other times our therapists use it to help children who have sensory issues overcome their challenges
and even learn how to self-soothe outside of Kids Clinic. They use this by using equipment like the
ball pit or even compression swings to teach these important skills to kids. Occupational
therapists work with kids of all ages to help them actively participate in the activities that
are important to them. The word occupation here actually means activities that support the health
well-being and development of the child, so for some kids this might mean supporting participating
in school play activities, building relationships with others and learning self-care at Kids Clinic.
That might mean cooking in the kitchen with your therapist. It's easy to take for granted
the tasks we do daily like making a meal, but for kids with certain medical conditions or injuries
these everyday tasks aren't so simple that's why occupational therapist, Renisha, is working with
Damon who has cerebral palsy to teach him the steps that work for him to make a grilled cheese.
Kids Clinic can it's like a family to me. I've been here since I was like two or three years old
it's been a long journey. I'm still moving forward they're right beside me helping
before I came here I never even like thought of cooking anything like watching my mom cook
but never like asking like to help me cook so like when I came here like they helped me cook
everything. Our speech language pathologists work with kids in a variety of areas from learning to
swallow and tolerate certain food textures to teaching them to communicate. Parents want to
know what their kids need and patients want to say what's on their mind. We know that just because a
child doesn't communicate in a typical way doesn't mean they don't have something to say. Today,
speech therapist, Maddie is working with Mckenna who has chromosome 18q
deletion syndrome on a words plus device. Words plus enables Mckenna who is non-verbal to share
her thoughts with not just her therapist but her family and friends as well, thank you. Miracles
happen every day at Kids Clinic thanks to the incredible therapists state-of-the-art equipment
and amazing kids who are here. But this wouldn't be possible without generous donations to our
Children's Miracle Network Hospital programs at CHRISTUS. Your donations help give the
gift of childhood to these kids. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, for helping kids like me, thank you, thank you.