CHCS clinics offer free books for kids
April 25, 2022
Categories: News
Parents of young children have a long list of worries and questions about keeping their babies and toddlers healthy, and they often ask their family doctor or provider questions about providing the right foods or keeping children safe. But one of the most important things parents can do to benefit their children’s health is to read to them. Community HealthCare System clinics can now help support parents in reading to children by providing a free book at well-child exams for kids...
Speech therapy Q&A
September 3, 2021
Categories: General
Do you have a child with communication difficulties? If so, speech therapy can help. Community HealthCare System offers pediatric speech therapy in Onaga, Holton, St. Marys, Frankfort, and Centralia.
Speech-Language Pathologist Ashley Edelman (pictured at right along with Jenna Rethman, our other SLP) recently took time to answer a few questions about speech therapy. Read on to learn more!
Q: What does speech therapy do for children?
A:...
Speech therapy brings 'joy and improvement' through early intervention
September 3, 2021
Categories: Patient story
When you’re a parent, you know what it feels like to worry. You wonder if your child is eating or sleeping enough, or if you are making the right decisions. You worry about teaching them the right things. You also might wonder about developmental milestones: Is your baby rolling over or crawling on time? Interacting with you enough? Saying enough words?
If you have worries, talk to your healthcare provider. Pediatric speech therapy is available for children who...
Simple tips to keep your child's development on track in a challenging time
January 13, 2021
Categories: Community health news, News
By Ashley Edelman, speech therapist: COVID-19 has undoubtedly caused many difficulties for families this past year. Children in our surrounding communities are also facing many new challenges. Quarantines, remote learning, COVID-related illness, and general disruptions to routine ways of living have taken a toll.
Children are dealing with increased social isolation from peers and family members and disruptions to everyday school routines, which puts them at risk for loss of language...
CHCS offers more therapies for kids
October 21, 2020
Categories: News
Community HealthCare System now offers pediatric occupational and speech therapy services at all therapy locations: Centralia, Frankfort, Holton, Onaga, and St. Marys.
These services are designed to help patients from birth to age 21 with a variety of diagnoses, including autism, speech and motor delays, sensory processing disorders, apraxia (an inability to perform learned movements on command), phonological disorders (the inability to correctly form the sounds of words),...
