Rehabilitation

When a child’s difficulty moving impacts daily life, our highly skilled physical therapists work with them—and their family—using a variety of innovative techniques designed to help build strength, improve movement, restore maximum movement and functional ability, and prevent injuries from recurring.

Using a multifaceted approach to improving physical, cognitive, visual, and emotional functions, our skilled therapists focus on helping children gain independence in all aspects of their daily lives, maximize skills and abilities, enhance their confidence, and gain a sense of accomplishment.

Our team of New York State licensed speech pathologists provides comprehensive evaluations and treatment for children and adolescents with a variety of speech, language, and feeding disorders. This may include augmentative communication, allowing nonverbal patients to interface with technology.

This program helps babies who are often at risk of developmental delays reach key milestones. Working with occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech professionals, each baby is treated using play, feeding, and massage therapy to engage and develop all of their senses.

Based on research pioneered at St. Mary’s, our innovative treatment for hemiplegia—partial paralysis caused by injury to the brain—helps children with neurological problems affecting their arms and hands, such as cerebral palsy or a traumatic brain injury, regain the use of a weakened limb.

LT is an intensive individualized therapy program that improves function in persons with spinal cord injury and other neurological diagnoses.  The interventions in this program focus on sending appropriate input to the nervous system systematically so that it can learn tasks such as sitting upright, standing, and walking.