Pediatric Therapy
Pediatric Therapy at LMH Health Families in Lawrence, Douglas County, and the surrounding areas can count on our pediatric-therapy team to listen to their concerns, answer their questions, help their children grow, and have fun in the process. Our therapists take a comprehensive approach to evaluation and intervention, considering a broad range of factors in […]
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Pediatric Therapy at LMH Health
Families in Lawrence, Douglas County, and the surrounding areas can count on our pediatric-therapy team to listen to their concerns, answer their questions, help their children grow, and have fun in the process. Our therapists take a comprehensive approach to evaluation and intervention, considering a broad range of factors in a child’s life that can impact their development and skill progression. The team recognizes and honors that every child has individual needs and strengths, and each member strives to meet children where they are while also providing them encouragement and expertise to build upon the things they already do well.
Your community’s pediatric therapy team
The pediatric therapists at LMH Health Therapy Services have more than 60 years of combined experience in helping children and collaborating with caregivers to provide whole-child care and successful, lasting intervention. Our physical, speech, and occupational therapists have training and expertise in a variety of areas, including:
- Torticollis and plagiocephaly
- Comprehensive assessment of foot and gait development, including toe-walking
- Orthotic recommendations
- Feeding and swallowing issues, including pediatric feeding disorder
- Receptive and expressive language disorders
- Speech-sound remediation/articulation disorders
- Motor and movement difficulties, including childhood apraxia of speech
- Concussion and traumatic brain injury
- Global developmental delay
- Neurodevelopmental disorders, including cerebral palsy, autism, and ADHD
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- Sensory modulation and sensory-processing differences
- “Learning Without Tears” handwriting program
- Fine motor and visual-perception/processing difficulties
Meet Our Care Team
Ashley Miller, OT
Ashley received her undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Kansas and her master’s degree in occupational therapy from A.T. Still University. Ashley has formal training in the Learning Without Tears handwriting program and has previous experience in preschool and elementary school-based practice, infant and toddler early intervention, life skills and behavior programs. She is interested in helping children and families address executive functioning, sensory modulation and functional motor skills through a neurodiverse, strengths-based lens. In her free time, Ashley enjoys reading, photography and playing referee to her two cats.
Caroline Hale, SLP
Caroline received her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Kansas and her master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders from Oklahoma State University. She has an interest in alternate and augmentative communication (AAC), feeding and early intervention. She is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Caroline lives in Lawrence with her husband, Evan and two coonhounds. In her free time, she enjoys watching the Kansas City Chiefs and attending KU games.
Haley Downey, DPT
Haley Downey graduated from the University of Kansas with an undergraduate degree in exercise science and a doctor of physical therapy from the University of Central Arkansas.
Downey began her career in an inpatient setting working with sports injury rehabilitation, gross motor delays, and gait analysis and treatment. She has also treated torticollis, a condition that causes a baby’s neck muscles to twist and tilt to one side.
She specializes in assisting children of all ages to develop gross motor skills through physical movement and play.
Karen Ely, PT
Karen earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the University of Kansas and her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Karen has worked for over 25 years in outpatient pediatric physical therapy. She excels at educating and empowering parents to help their children gain gross-motor skills, resolve joint pain or tightness related to torticollis and other conditions or work through post-surgery challenges. In her free time, Karen loves to hang out with friends and travel.
Karen Flory, SLP
Karen received her bachelor’s degree in Speech Language Pathology from Kansas State University and her master’s in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Kansas. Her professional experience includes a wide variety of settings and areas of communication and swallowing disorders, including motor speech disorders, articulation and phonological disorders, pediatric feeding and swallowing, expressive and receptive language disorders and traumatic brain injury. Karen has completed additional training in infant feeding and swallowing, receiving certification in Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Feeders (SOFFI). She enjoys preparing food to enjoy around the table with her family, reading great books and living on the Kansas countryside.
Randi Hutto, SLP
Randi Hutto graduated from the University of Kansas with undergraduate degree in speech-language-hearing and a masters in speech-language pathology.
Hutto specializes in pediatric therapy. She works closely with her patients to evaluate and provide treatment focusing on language, articulation, cognition and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices.
Hutto believes that collaboration with the patient, parents and other professionals is the best way to provide family-centered care.
