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Our Company In business in Baltimore, MD since 1986, Rehabilitation Therapy Services, Inc. (RTS) is a therapist-owned company providing Occupational and Physical Therapy services in schools and home health care settings in the Baltimore City area. Therapy in Schools Therapists and Assistants in schools work with children one-on-one or sometimes in groups of two or three, and also as consultants to teachers and parents. Teamwork is important. Teams may include, in addition to occupational and physical therapy professionals, speech and language therapists, physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses and, of course, teachers and parents. Occupational therapy in schools is educationally based and focuses on preparing developmentally disadvantaged children to learn. Physical therapy is centered more on physically challenged children but includes the developmentally disadvantaged as well. Therapy very much depends on the age of the child, where they are on the developmental scale, and what their needs are (or the needs of care givers). Physical therapists usually start with encouraging and facilitating basic mobility: from rolling to coming to sit, kneeling, crawling to pulling to stand and walking. At that phase, they usually work in the child’s home until it is time to get enrolled in a school program. Occupational therapists will also work with the very young and concentrate on hand function, being able to reach and grasp items, pre-feeding, feeding and basic self care tasks. OT’s often use play to focus on children’s weaknesses to facilitate improved development. Both therapists may do the exact same thing as viewed by an outsider but each will bring their own professional perspective and relate it to their discipline maximizing functioning of the child. When the child is in school physical therapists will again encourage and facilitate independent function and mobility: usually walking, negotiating stairs, curbs, steps and other obstacles. Position in the classroom, and wheelchair mobility. The occupational therapist at this time is concentrating on fine motor activities, pre-writing skills and basic ADL or self care skills. They will also work with visual perceptual, visual tracking, and eye-hand coordination skills needed for success in the classroom. As the student progresses through school, the PT’s focus more on mobility of students throughout the school while the OT’s focus more on fine motor and perceptual skills related to academic tasks. The therapists also consult with teachers and parents to give them suggestions on appropriate activities and exercise that they can help the students with to attain their highest level of function possible. As the child gets older, the weekly sessions will turn to bi-monthly ones or monthly ones and are frequently discontinued at the middle school or high school level with monitoring and occasional consultations. Therapy at Home Therapists and Assistants in home health care help patients transition from the health care facility to the home. The work is challenging and rewarding with every problem requiring a unique solution. Usually there are no adaptive kitchens or bathrooms: The therapist will help with problem solving and adaptations and instruct patients and care providers so that maximal independent and safe functioning is achieved. Frequently the goal is to ready the patient to be able to go for out patient therapy. In other cases, patients may be debilitated and require strengthening in order to care for themselves in their own home. Patients who are served at home are recovering from a variety of issues - joint replacement surgeries, strokes, neurological diseases, diabetic problems, arthritis and general surgeries - to name but a few. The therapy required gives the therapist an opportunity to be creative and to work with patients with multiple needs in quite varied home settings. Each day brings a different challenge. In addition, working in home care provides the flexibility to set your own schedule. A therapist can work full time or part time, work only certain days a week or hours per day, weekends or not. They can accept patients only in specific areas if they wish. It is the ideal solution for mothers wishing to gradually return to the work force or older individuals gradually easing toward retirement.