Empowering Students Through Specialized School-Based Therapy
Central Nebraska Rehabilitation Services School Based Therapy helps many students each year who struggle with developmental delays, autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, vision impairments, and other challenges. Working with several districts throughout Nebraska, our team of therapists is highly trained to meet the unique educational challenges faced by these students and help them reach their potential.
Our therapists collaborate with students, teachers, and families to provide occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy services to students who need therapy in order to be successful in school.
The children served are challenged by a variety of learning disabilities including:
- Auditory or visual impairments
- Orthopedic impairments
- Attention deficit disorder
- Intellectual disabilities
- Autism
- Developmental delays
Student Benefits
Our therapists are able to help students be successful in school through several methods:
- Ensuring they have proper positioning and equipment for sitting and accessing learning materials
- Teaching self-help skills needed for school including feeding and toileting
- Improving a child’s mobility so he or she can navigate classrooms or hallways and playgrounds
- Fostering social and emotional health through play-based activity
Teacher Benefits
Therapists support teachers as well! By collaborating with teachers, our therapists are able to provide assistance in many ways:
- Providing a multi-tiered approach to serving kids
- Helping them understand the impact of a child’s disability on curriculum content
- Providing problem-solving strategies that remove obstacles existing in classroom activities or the environment
- Training on strategies for enhancing curriculum content
For more information on our School Based Therapy, please contact Mary Walsh-Sterup or Karen McIntyre.
We have School Based Therapy contracts in the darkened counties representing 59 school districts
Meet the team
School-Based Therapy Directors
Karen McIntyre
PT, Therapy Director
Mary Walsh-Sterup
OTR/L, CHT
Physical Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Speech-Language Pathologists
Vision Therapist
Jenn Nantkes
Vision Specialist
