Sensory Processing Therapy in Baldwin, NY

Your kid walks out able to stay in the loud room a little longer than last week. Sensory integration inside a 2,100 square foot gym: swings, crash pads, a climbing wall and a zipline, aimed at a nervous system running too hot or too quiet.

Swings, crash pads, zipline Ages 2 to 16 Talk to a Specialist

What It Is

Turning the world down to a workable volume.

A laughing boy swinging from gymnastic rings over the mats in the sensory gym We build tolerance, we never flood

Every second, your child’s brain is sorting sound, light, touch, movement and gravity into background and foreground. When that sorting runs off, a shirt tag feels like sandpaper, a cafeteria feels like a siren, or a kid crashes into every wall in the house hunting for input they cannot quite feel.

Sensory processing therapy gives the nervous system that input on purpose and in the right dose. Swinging, spinning, climbing, crashing, pushing and pulling, one-on-one with a licensed occupational and physical therapist, on a plan written at the comprehensive initial evaluation. Tolerance goes up. Regulation follows.

You already changed the route to skip the mall. You stopped saying yes to birthday parties. You cut the tags out of every shirt and never explained it to anyone. That was not avoiding the problem, that was you protecting your kid with the only tools you had. Now there are better ones.

What It Helps

When the world is set too loud.

The world will not get quieter on its own. What shrinks instead is your family’s map, one avoided place at a time, until the list of where you can all go fits on one hand. A nervous system can be taught to handle more, and that map opens right back up.

The hand dryer clears the whole restroom Undone by the grocery store doors Crashes into everything and feels none of it

What A Session Looks Like

The right input, in the right order.

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First, heavy work and big movement in the 2,100 square foot gym: the zipline, swings that spin, the climbing wall, a run at the crash pads. That input is the volume knob.

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Once the body is organized, we bring back the thing that used to be too much: the texture, the sound, the tilt, the mess. A little more than last week, and always with a way out.

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You watched it on the live feed in the waiting area, so you saw which input settled your kid. We debrief after every session and you leave with the same move to use at home.

What Changes

Your week gets bigger again.

Haircuts stop being a two-person job.

Clothes go on without a negotiation.

The cafeteria stops ending the school day early.

You say yes to the birthday party again.

Pairs Well With

What often runs alongside it.

Pediatric Occupational Therapy For the everyday skills that get easier once the room stops taking all the attention. Self-Regulation Skill Development For the strategies that let your kid come back down without you in the room.

Questions, Answered

Straight answers, before you call.

It is how the brain sorts everything coming in: sound, light, touch, smell, movement and the sense of where the body is in space. Some kids get too much signal and the world feels overwhelming. Some get too little and go looking for it by crashing, climbing and never sitting still. Therapy works on the sorting, not on the behavior it produces.

A playground gives a child whatever they grab first. Here the order, the dose and the timing are chosen. Which swing, how long, how fast, what comes right after, and when to stop before it tips over into too much. Same equipment, completely different intent, and it is one-on-one with a licensed occupational and physical therapist the entire time.

You do both. HD cameras stream the session live to a television in the waiting area, so your child gets a room without an audience and you still see every minute of it. That matters here more than anywhere: you get to watch which input actually settles your kid, and then take it home.

We are out-of-network, 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, with 10% off an 8-session package and 15% off a 12-session package. Credit cards, cash, checks, FSA and HSA are accepted. Call (516) 744-7550 and we will go through your numbers with you.

Nobody can honestly hand you a date, and be careful with anyone who does. What you get instead is a plan with an endpoint and regular reassessment, so you can see movement rather than hope for it. Discharge planning starts once goals are being met with at least 80% accuracy, and you go home with a program that keeps the gains.

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

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Ages 2 to 16, individual and group

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Right on Merrick Road, in Baldwin.

Planet Sensory

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