Pediatric Occupational Therapy in Baldwin, NY

Your kid walks out able to do one more thing without you: the button, the pencil, the whole dinner in a chair. One-on-one with a licensed occupational and physical therapist, inside a 2,100 square foot sensory gym.

Ages 2 to 16 2,100 sq ft sensory gym Talk to a Specialist

What It Is

Therapy that looks like play. On purpose.

An occupational therapist and a young boy sitting on stools, writing letters side by side on a whiteboard wall Every plan starts with a comprehensive evaluation

Occupational therapy is the work of an ordinary day. Getting dressed. Holding a pencil. Sitting through a meal. Handling a room that feels too loud. When one of those is harder for your kid than it should be, this is the service that goes after it directly.

For a child, the way in is play. Yours climbs, swings, builds and crashes, and every one of those choices is aimed at a goal written down with you at the comprehensive initial evaluation. Ages 2 to 16, one-on-one with a licensed occupational and physical therapist, in a 2,100 square foot gym.

You didn’t need a checklist to tell you something was different. You knew. You were told to wait, told he’d grow out of it, and you kept the whole house running while you waited. The parents who get here fastest are the ones who stopped waiting for someone else to confirm it.

What It Helps

The hard parts of an ordinary day.

Skills build on skills. Every year you wait is a year your kid works twice as hard as the room just to stay level with it. That is fixable, and it starts with finding out which skill underneath is missing.

Socks, tags and haircuts start a war Fine one second, floor the next Still handing you the yogurt to open Watching the climbing wall from the bottom Homework runs two hours and ends in tears

What A Session Looks Like

One hour. Every minute has a job.

1

The first ten minutes are hard play in the 2,100 square foot gym: the zipline, the crash pads, the climbing wall, the swings. A settled body can learn. A wound-up one cannot.

2

Then the goal itself, hidden inside a game. Buttons on the way up the monkey bars. Scissors at the table. Whatever the plan says comes next, repeated until it holds.

3

You watched all of it live on the waiting room screen. HD cameras stream the session to a television out front, and we debrief with you after, with one thing to try at home.

What Changes

You’ll notice it outside this room first.

Getting dressed stops being a fight.

Homework ends before bedtime does.

Birthday parties stop being a gamble.

The teacher notices before you say anything.

Pairs Well With

What often runs alongside it.

Sensory Processing Therapy For when the noise, the lights and the tags are what stand between your kid and the skill. Pediatric Physical Therapy For when the body underneath the skill needs strength, balance and stamina first.

Questions, Answered

Straight answers, before you call.

Usually not. In New York, pediatric occupational therapists can evaluate and treat without a physician referral for up to 30 days. That covers non-restorative services like handwriting, learning and developmental skill training, when your child is not in acute care. If your pediatrician or your plan wants a referral on file anyway, we will walk you through getting one.

Ages 2 to 16, one-on-one and in groups. A three year old and a fourteen year old need very different sessions, so nothing here runs off an age bracket. The comprehensive initial evaluation is what sets the plan, and the plan is built around your kid.

We are an out-of-network provider, and we submit claims on your behalf when your plan has out-of-network benefits. Self-pay is $360 for the comprehensive initial evaluation, then $90 for 30 minutes, $135 for 45 minutes, $180 for 60 minutes. Packages take 10% off at 8 sessions and 15% off at 12. We accept credit cards, cash, checks, FSA and HSA. If benefits run out, care continues on private pay with a payment plan. Call us at (516) 744-7550 and we will price it out with you.

Yes, all of it. HD cameras stream a live feed to a television in the waiting area, so you see the whole session as it happens instead of a summary of it afterward. Your therapist also debriefs with you after every visit: what we worked on, what went well, and one thing to try at home this week.

This is a plan with an endpoint, not a standing appointment. Progress is reassessed regularly, and discharge planning starts once your child is meeting goals with at least 80% accuracy. From there you get a home program for maintenance and carryover, so the skills hold after the sessions stop.

It is different, and the two are meant to work together. School services are built around access to the classroom and are tied to school goals. What happens here is complementary: a full session one-on-one with a licensed occupational and physical therapist, in a 2,100 square foot sensory gym, with direct collaboration with your child’s school so nobody is working against anybody.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Tell us what you’re noticing at home. A real person calls you back to set up the comprehensive evaluation. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’

  • Hours Mon–Thu 1:00pm–7:00pm · Fri 10:00am–7:00pm · Sat 9:00am–2:30pm · Sun Closed
  • (516) 744-7550 Prefer to just talk it through? Call us.
  • Saturday appointments, 9:00am to 2:30pm

5.0 · 28 Google reviews

Ages 2 to 16, individual and group

Step 1 of 5

So we know who to look for when you and your child walk in.

Visit Us

Right on Merrick Road, in Baldwin.

Planet Sensory

Take Me There (opens in new tab) Call Us