Pediatric Therapy Center in Queens, NY

PlayWorks NYC:
PlayWorks NYC is a pediatric therapy center in Rego Park, Queens that provides physical, occupational and speech and language therapy to children with special needs from infancy through to teenagers. We offer services in a professional, nurturing environment with highly qualified staff. We contract directly with the Department of Education, Early Intervention Agencies and accept private payment. PlayWorks mission is to serve children with special needs and serve as a resource for parents and professionals. PlayWorks was born out of a simple love of working with children with special needs and their families. We wanted to have a safe, comfortable, professional place for parents and children to come to for quality therapy. PlayWorks prides itself on offering speech, physical, and occupational therapy with the utmost professionalism in a warm, nurturing environment.

Pediatric Therapy Program:

Specialty Therapies include:

* Occupational Therapy: 
Our Occupational Therapists help children with play, work, fine-motor and self-care activities to improve independent function. Sensory Integration is a specific therapeutic intervention that requires specific training. 

Occupational therapy can support children to:

- Improve writing and drawing skills.
- Improve strength and coordination.
- Improve fine motor, visual perceptual skills and self-care skills.
- Assist with increasing overall internal organization, focus, and attention.
- Improve sensory motor processing abilities.
- Improve body and safety awareness.
- Improve ability to problem solve.
- Improve social skills / play skills with peer.
- Improve coping skills and work behaviors.

* Physical Therapy: 
Our Physical Therapists facilitate a child's age-appropriate gross motor skills. Therapy focuses on improving muscle flexibility, muscle strength, balance and coordination, endurance, motor planning, motor control and body and safety awareness. Treatment regimes include: stretching, strengthening, gait training, balance and coordination training, sensory integration, and object manipulation skills.

Our physical therapists can help children:

- Improve motor planning and coordination.
- Improve balance.
- Improve overall strength.
- Improve overall endurance.
- Improve functional mobility (crawling, walking, running)
- Improve body and safety awareness.
- Improve ability to problem solve.
- Assist with increasing overall internal organization, focus, and attention.
- Improve coping skills and work behaviors.

* Speech Therapy: 
Our Speech / Language Pathologists help children with articulation, oral motor skills, feeding issues, language comprehension, and phonemic awareness. Our therapists also work with the child to improve their attention span, critical thinking, social and play skills. 

A Speech / Language Pathologist helps a child improve his or her:

- Articulation.
- Socialization.
- Language comprehension.
- Oral motor skills.
- Feeding issues
- Pragmatics: Expressive communication using appropriate social language.
- Play skills.
- Attention span.
- Phonemic awareness (rhymes, sounds).
- Voice and fluency.