WHAT WE DO

Paediatric Physiotherapy

Paediatric physiotherapy is to empower your specially abled child’s physical development and wellbeing. We at Sadhana…use various advanced techniques like neural developmental treatment (NDT), sensory integration, myofascial release, and manual therapy to restore your child's posture and movement and make their activities of daily living simple and efficient.

Our certified NDT and SI therapists who specialize in paediatrics work towards a goal oriented therapy for children with neuromuscular skeletal disorders, congenital developmental, like cerebral palsy, global developmental delay, spina bifida , various syndromes, torticollis, CTEV etc.

We do a complete evaluation, treatment and management of children to improve their gross motor, fine motor skills, posture, movement, balance and coordination, strength and endurance enabling our children to be self- reliant and discrete functionally.

Occupational Therapy

Using sensory integration as our base our creative team at Sadhana CDTC develops unique strategies for every child facing difficulty in performing activities of daily living, fine motor skills, communication and social development.

Children with sensory disorders like attention deficit hyperactive disorder(ADHD), Autism, sensory processing disorder, learning disorders, handwriting difficulties, dyslexia and many more would benefit from this treatment program. It is a sensory based approach to help children enhance their function and social skills. Our Therapist collaboratively work with families and schools to develop strategies to help the child cope with their sensory differences and begin to integrate sensations so that they can interact in their environment with more ease and enjoyment.

Speech and Feeding Therapy

Communication and feeding are the most integral part of a human’s life hence development of these skills are, our utmost priority. Our speech and language pathologist cater to children with articulation, language, feeding, swallowing, breathing, and voice production difficulties enabling them to communicate and interact efficiently. For feeding - Specially trained physiotherapist and speech therapist work with children and their families to facilitate and enhance their child's ability to eat safely and effectively.

Depending on the nature of the child’s feeding difficulties, the therapist and family work together to establish goals and strategies to address issues such as improved oral motor skills needed for sucking, drinking, biting chewing, and swallowing. Oral motor and feeding therapy also address sensory issues around feeding which might include tolerance of the smell, texture, temperature and taste of foods.

Child Psychology & Counselling

Child psychology focuses on the development of the child through the early growing years. The interventions are tailored according to the child’s need and thus it differs from one child to the other. Working with children also heavily involves working with parents, families and other care givers of the child. A child psychologist typically takes on a holistic approach involving various stake holders such as the school and other professionals.

Each concern is addressed individually using an array of techniques like Behaviour Modifications, Counseling, Play therapy, Narrative Approach’s, CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) etc.

Narrative practices is an approach which gives a sense of personal agency to individuals and strongly believes in the idea that "a problem is a problem and that the person is NOT a problem". It helps in externalizing the problem and making the skill and knowledge more visible to the individuals. It also helps them see their hopes and dreams through various innovative ways.

Remedial therapy

At Sadhana child development and therapy centre we understand the importance of education and academics. Our experience educator helps your child to bridge in the gaps between their learning, comprehensive and conceptual abilities.

You should visit us if:

  • Child confuses letters, numbers and numerical notations.
  • Has difficulty to read and write.
  • Finds difficult to recollect spellings.
  • He may also have trouble perceiving and remembering sequence.
  • Has difficulty solving simple mathematical equation – forgets to carry forward or understanding the concept.

Aquatic Therapy

Aquatic therapy is physical and mental exercise in water performed under the supervision of a certified aquatic therapist. Properties of water such as buoyancy, resistance, turbulence and swirling and hydrostatic pressure are used which benefits the child physically and mentally.

Benefits of Aquatic Therapy:

  • Improves flexibility, ROM and general mobility.
  • Decreases stiffness.
  • Decreases stress and anxiety.
  • Improves breathing, increases respiratory endurance.
  • Encourages natural detox- removes metabolic waste.
  • Re-vitalizes energy.
  • Promotes profound relaxation , peace and joy.
Aquatic therapy may be helpful for children and adults with conditions like Autism, ADHD children, ASD children , Cerebral palsy, Developmental delay, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple sclerosis, Scoliosis, Anxiety, Spinal cord injury, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury.

Neural developmental treatment

NDT is a hands on holistic approach for children and adults with neurological, congenital and orthopaedic conditions. Developed by the Bobaths , NDT mainly focuses on dysfunction of posture and movement , which leads to functional limitation in daily life activities.

At Sadhana CDTC our certified NDT therapist do complete evaluation using international standards which comprises of postural analysis and movement analysis, neurological and musculoskeletal system evaluation, functional and participation limitations. After a detailed evaluation we make a unique goal oriented rehabilitation program for the child which boosts the child to achieve their milestones or participate in daily activities with ease.

Sensory integration

Sensory integration is the brain’s ability to take in, process and organize sensory information that we perceive through different sensory systems in our bodies.

At Sadhana CDTC we empower our children to be able to organize and process information that comes from our sensory systems in order to respond appropriately. we help them to be able to integrate information from all of their sensory systems including the tactile system, vestibular system, proprioceptive system, visual system, auditory system, and the olfactory/gustatory system.

We enrich our parents to provide help and understanding to our kids throughout their daily activities, to give them the support they need to even attempt routine tasks that most children perform easily.

The goals of our treatment are to improve sensory modulation related to behavior and attention and to increase abilities for social interactions, academic skills, and independence through better SI. The activities provided are meant to help the nervous system modulate, organize, and integrate information from the environment, resulting in fulfilling and self-sufficient activities at home and school.

Cognitive Behavioural therapy

CBT is a short term goal oriented psychotherapy treatment , that takes a hands on practical approach to problem solving, its goal is to change pattern of thinking or behaviour that are behind children’s difficulties, and so change the way they feel. CBT works by changing child’s attitude and their behaviour by focussing on the thoughts, images, belief and attitudes that are held and how these processes relate to the way a child behaves, as a way of dealing with emotional response.

Brain gym

Brain gym activities are simple physical movements which are developmental in origin and stimulate overall function including visual, cognitive, behavioural and alleviates stress related functions too. It is a twenty-six activities program developed to encourage learning through movement.

At Sadhana CDTC our certified Brain gym practitioner works on improvement in the following areas:

  • Improves flexibility, ROM and general mobility.
  • Decreases stiffness.
  • Decreases stress and anxiety.
  • Improves breathing, increases respiratory endurance.
  • Encourages natural detox- removes metabolic waste.
  • Re-vitalizes energy.
  • Promotes profound relaxation, peace and joy.

Feeding therapy

Specially trained physiotherapist and speech therapist work with children and their families to facilitate and enhance their child's ability to eat safely and effectively. Depending on the nature of the child’s feeding difficulties, the therapist and family work together to establish goals and strategies to address issues such as improved oral motor skills needed for sucking, drinking, biting chewing, and swallowing.

When to get your child evaluated by us:

  • When your child has difficulties with chewing, sucking and swallowing
  • When you have to force feed your child every time for most of the food items.
  • When he/she is not willing to try new food items and stick to a particular taste, temperature and texture.
  • When your child takes long hours to complete his/her food or always gets their lunch box unfinished from school.

Autism intervention therapy

It focuses on Engagement, Play and Social Communication with children experiencing Autism or under the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The therapy plans are tailored depending on the current level of the child or adult.

Our qualified autism intervention therapist also deals with behavioural concerns and planning behaviour intervention plans for the parents according to the child's need.

Early Intervention

Early intervention is specially designed for babies from 0 – 1 year of age with any kind of unforeseen circumstances during or post-delivery. We recommend a complete evaluation if your child has faced the following conditions.

  • NICU stay.
  • Low birth weight.
  • Did not cry after birth.
  • Seizures, epileptic attack.
  • Delayed development in gross motor and fine motor milestones.
  • Does not breastfeed effectively.
  • Does not move his limbs smoothly.
  • Diagnoses by any syndrome or neurological condition.
A specialised program is developed to help these children achieve their milestones and integrate their sensory systems to help them avoid any future difficulties.