Our Specialties
Behavioral
Conditions treated:
- Adjustment reaction disorders
- Aggressive behavior
- Anxiety disorders
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Bedtime behavior problems
- Child abuse and neglect
- Childhood fears and phobias
- Conduct disorders
- Coping with chronic diseases
- Encopresis
- Enuresis
- Food refusal and over-selectivity
- Habit disorders/tics
- Headaches
- Infantile colic/excessive crying
- Intermittent explosive disorder
- Mealtime behavior problems
- Mood disorder
- Noncompliance
- Poor self-esteem
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Recurrent abdominal pain
- School-related problems
- Sleep disorders
- Suicidal ideation
- Tantrums
- Toilet training
- Trichotillomania
Cardiology
Conditions treated:
- Abnormal heart rhythm
- Chest pain
- Congenital heart defects
- Endocarditis
- Fainting
- Heart disease in athletes
- Heart murmur
- Kawasaki disease
- Rheumatic fever
Child Development
Conditions treated:
- Autism diagnosis
- Developmental evaluation
- Developmental problem behavior
Feeding Team
This team evaluates and develops feeding recommendations for a wide range of feeding problems presented by children with developmental disabilities or chronic illnesses. Feeding problems often result from complex and overlapping etiologies. Nutritional oral motor and behavioral concerns may adversely affect growth and speech development. Some examples of feeding problems include but are not limited to difficulty handling increased textures, presence of tongue thrust, bite reflex or other immature eating behaviors, difficulty with positioning and behavioral problems at mealtime.
Genetics
Conditions treated:
- Autism
- Cardiomyopathy
- Chromosomal disorders
- Congenital anomalies
- Down syndrome
- Familial cancer
- Familial disorders
- Genetic diseases/disorders
- Lysosomal storage disorders
- Metabolic disease
- Mitochondrial disorders
- Muscular dystrophy
- Phenylketonuria
- Prader-Willi syndrome
Hematology/Oncology
Conditions treated:
- Red blood cell disorders: Nutritional anemias, aplastic anemia, hemolytic anemia, hemoglobinopathies including sickle cell disease, thalassemia, inherited red cell membrane disorders, acquired red cell disorders
- White blood cell disorders: Acquired and congenital, leukopenia, neutropenia
- Platelet disorders: Thrombocytopenia, thrombocytosis
- Clotting and Bleeding disorders: Acquired and inherited, factor deficiencies (hemophilia), von Willebrand disease
- Cancer: Leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, lymphoma, brain tumors, bone and muscle tumors and masses (sarcomas), cancer of the kidney, cancer of the liver, neuroblastoma
Neurology
Conditions treated:
- Asperger syndrome
- Ataxia
- Autism
- Bell's palsy
- Cerebral palsy
- Chorea
- Developmental delay
- Dysmorphic syndromes
- Epilepsy
- Erb's palsy
- Headaches
- Migraine
- Mitochondrial disorders
- Movement disorders
- Muscular dystrophy
- Neonatal neurology
- Neurogenetic developmental disorders
- Neurometabolic disorders
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Neuropathies
- Rett syndrome
- Seizures
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Syncope
- Tics
- Tourette syndrome
Pulmonology
Conditions treated:
- Asthma
- Cystic fibrosis
- Interstitial pneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Various airway and lung problems
Rheumatology
Conditions treated:
- Dermatomyositis (JDMS)
- Immunodeficiencies
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA)
- Scleroderma
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Vasculitis
To schedule your child for an appointment or for more information, please call (913) 310-0482.
