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The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh is a nonprofit organization dedicated to children with special needs and their families in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and Western Pennsylvania. Mary Irwin Laughlin founded The Children's Institute in 1902 as the Memorial Home for Crippled Children to care for a six-year-old boy whose legs had been severed in a train accident. Later called The Rehabilitation Institute, the hospital at The Children's Institute, today, is a leader in pediatric rehabilitation techniques and provides individualized treatment programs along a broad continuum of care: inpatient care, outpatient care, transitional and subacute care, and home care. The Children's Institute also has The Day School, an accredited private school for students with special needs, Project STAR, a social services component dedicated to supporting and finding permanent homes for children with special needs, and a Therapeutic Garden, accessible to children at the Institute and the public. The Children's Institute's main campus is located at 1405 Shady Avenue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and the hospital's satellite facilities are located at Wexford, Green Tree and Norwin Hills. Project STAR at The Children's Institute has offices in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, and Monaca, Pennsylvania. ==Hospital== The Children's Institute provides pediatric rehabilitation to children and adolescents from birth to age twenty-one. It is the "only free-standing pediatric rehabilitation specialty hospital in Pennsylvania, and one of only twenty in the country."〔Conway-Long, Helene, ("Heinz Endowments: In the Spotlight: Amazing Kids. Amazing Place." ), 2 July 2010.〕 The Hospital offers specialty programs such as aquatic therapy, assistive therapy, augmentative and alternative communication, autism therapies, brain injury rehabilitation, diabetes management, functional feeding, obesity management, orthopedic rehabilitation, end of life and palliative care, a pediatric cardiac recovery program, respite care, RND (reflex neurovascular dystrophy) and pain rehabilitation, spinal cord rehabilitation, and a Prader-Willi Syndrome program. Staff members at the Hospital are certified pediatric specialists.〔("The Hospital Process" ), www.amazingkids.org. Retrieved 10 November 2010.〕 The Hospital accepts most insurance plans, federal or state assistance programs and offers reduced rate or free care.〔("The Hospital Process" ), www.amazingkids.org. Retrieved 3 November 2010.〕 The Heasley House is a residence available to families who live more than fifty miles away. It is located in Squirrel Hill, and requires families to pay five dollars a night to reside there.〔("The Heasley House" ), www.amazingkids.org. Retrieved 3 November 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Children's Institute of Pittsburgh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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