The Clinic for Therapy Services (CTS) is an in-house outpatient clinic of the College of Allied Medical Professions (CAMP) of the University of the Philippines Manila (UP Manila). Since 1992, the clinic has been providing quality occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT), and speech and language pathology (SP) for habilitation, rehabilitation, maintenance, wellness promotion, and disease/injury prevention in pediatric care. In 2002, the clinic expanded its therapy service programs to include OT, PT, and SP in for adolescent, adults, and older adults. The Clinic for Therapy Services has two sections: 1.) CTS Adult-Adolescent section. The CTS Pediatric section (CTS-P) provides pediatric service programs that complement the clinical training of students. In particular, CTS-P offers early intervention, developmental skills training, gross and advanced gross motor skills training, fine motor skills training, training in the activities of daily living, sensory integration, cognitive training, behavior management, social skills training, a transition-to-adolescence program, augmentative and/or assistive communication, speech and language development, feeding and dysphagia management, wheelchair assessment and management, and fitness and wellness programs to its patients/clients. Meanwhile, the CTS Adult-Adolescent section (CTS-AA) also provides service programs that complement its training programs. Specifically, CTS-AA offers fitness and wellness classes, home and workplace assessment, pre-vocational and vocational training, splinting, socialization training, voice rehabilitation, crafts clinic, community integration program, and cleft lip and palate clinic for adolescents and adults with neurologic conditions as well as the well-population. The Clinic for Therapy Services handles an average of a thousand patients per month. The families of most of these patients served by the clinic belong to the low-income bracket. They come from the different parts of Metro Manila, and from the nearby provinces of Cavite, Laguna and Bulacan. Aside from provision of therapy to patients and clients, the clinic is also a venue for clinical training and patient exposure to undergraduate and graduate students of CAMP as well as licensed UP-CAMP faculty for their professional practice and development. Currently, the clinical training programs of CTS are geared towards development of knowledge, skills, and attitudinal competencies of its interns in the disciplines of occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT), and speech/language therapy (SP). The student clinicians are guided by licensed OTs, PTs, and SPs, who are part of the UP-CAMP faculty. The student clinicians are trained primarily through provision of therapy services to patients/clients with a variety of movement functions and dysfunctions.
