Physical Therapy

Program Overview

At Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, our goal is to provide quality care to our patients while helping students gain skills to become a competent therapist. We promote education by modeling and hands-on experiences. We encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and to take initiative in gaining knowledge and experience.

As a student, you’ll receive guidance and tools to enhance the learning process. You may have the opportunity to observe the following:

  • Diagnostic observation (including ICU, NICU, developmental evaluations, gait lab and others)
  • Hospital-sponsored seminars 
  • Vendor demonstrations
  • Research/applied science 
  • Specialty clinics (including Down syndrome, AMC, seating, CP, prosthetics, cleft palate and others)
  • Surgery observation
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Details for Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy graduate students are required to have completed at least one full-time fieldwork placement prior to an affiliation at Nemours. Tests and measures you may be expected to participate in include:

  • Peabody Developmental Motor Scales PDMS-2
  • Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency BOT2
  • Functional Independence Measure WeeFIM
  • Gross Motor Function Measure GMFM
  • Gross Motor Function Classification System GMFCS
  • Range of Motion, Goniometry
  • Manual Muscle Testing, MMT
  • Modified Ashworth Scale

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Michelle Feairheller, DPT, OCS, SCS, CSCS
Physical Therapy
michelle.feairheller@nemours.org