What We Offernihao

Movement Matters offers a wide variety of pediatric services in the areas of:

    OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

    PHYSICAL THERAPY

    SPEECH THERAPY

    FREE SCREENING & FULL EVALUATION

    SENSORY INTEGRATION PRAXIS TEST (SIPT)

Our clinicians are trained in:

  • The Listening Program ® (TLP)
    • The Listening Program ® (TLP) utilizes psycho-acoustically filtered music to facilitate auditory processing, as well as increasing attention, improving body awareness, stimulating language and improving sensory processing skills. Movement Matters is a certified TLP provider.

  • DIR/Floortime ®
    • The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based (DIR®/Floortime™) Model is a developmental and interdisciplinary framework that helps clinicians, parents and educators conduct a comprehensive assessment and develop an intervention program tailored to the unique challenges and strengths of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other developmental challenges. The objectives of the DIR®/Floortime™ Model are to build healthy foundations for social, emotional, and intellectual capacities rather than focusing on skills and isolated behaviors.

  • Interactive Metronome (IM)
    • Interactive Metronome (IM) is a neuro-motor therapy leader that has changed clinical expectations by assisting patients in reaching greater functional gains in a shorter period of time. It is both a therapeutic and evaluation tool to determine levels of motor planning. It has been proven as an effective way to improve motor planning and sequencing for children. The IM program provides a structured, goal-oriented process that challenges the patient to synchronize a range of hand and foot exercises to a precise computer-generated reference tone heard through headphones. The patient attempts to match the rhythmic beat with repetitive motor actions. A patented auditory-visual guidance system provides immediate feedback measured in milliseconds, and a score is provided.

  • Yoga for the Special Child ®
    • Yoga for the Special Child ® is a comprehensive program of yoga techniques designed to enhance the natural development of children with special needs. These methods provide an effective treatment for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, Cerebral Palsey, Autism, and Learning Disabilities.

  • Infant Massage
    • Gentle and loving infant massage has many benefits for children, including: relaxation, improves muscle tones and circulation, stimulates brain development and promotes communication with parents.

  • Handwriting Without Tears ®
    • Handwriting Without Tears® aims to make legible and fluent handwriting an easy and automatic skill for all students. Our unique and compelling curriculum design and teaching strategies facilitate this goal. Here’s why the program works for all children:
    • Is easy to teach and easy to learn
    • Requires minimal preparation time
    • Gets results with just 15 minutes of handwriting instruction a day
    • Reduces need for one-on-one time and remediation
    • Uses unique strategies to teach good letter formation, spacing and neatness, and cursive connections

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Please contact us at 212-925-8069 or info@movementmatterstherapy.com for more information.

Class Schedule and Summer Programs

2011 SENSE-ational Summer Camp (Sign up today!)
Movement Matters 2011 SENSE-ational Summer Camps are designed to stimulate a child’s development. These programs provide opportunities to practice important gross motor skills; balance, coordination and motor planning in a fun, challenging environment with guidance from trained occupational and physical therapists. Our very experienced clinicians will give daily instructions on pre-writing skills, fine motor skills, and handwriting skills at age-appropriate levels for each child. They will also incorporate visual-perceptual training into functional gross motor and fine motor tasks. What is unique about our program is a sensory integration approach that is not provided by traditional children’s programs.

2011 SENSE-ational summer camps will be 8 weeks in total, 3 days per week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday), from 9am to 3pm.

Discounts are available for early birds and multiple enrollments in SENSE-ational Summer Camp. For class schedules and pricing, please call 212-925-8069 or e-mail at class@movementmatterstherapy.com to inquire. Space is limited, sign up today!

Children will have supervision and assistance from licensed clinicians to practice gross motor, fine motor, visual-perceptual, and speech-language skills within functional activities.

Children will develop social-interaction skills with age-appropriate peers.

Our clinicians will monitor and facilitate reaching developmental milestones within the context of functional and academic activities.

All snacks are guaranteed organic, healthy and nutritious.

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Movement Matters!
Movement and motor coordination group classes for various age groups with an emphasis on strengthening and coordination while improving social interaction skills.

Community Services
Movement Matters is committed to helping to create a thriving neighborhood wherever we do business. This is a fundamental element of our company culture. We take pride in our role in the community. Movement Matters is very much at the heart of community life in Soho and Brooklyn, supporting those institutions and programs that make the communities we serve desirable places to live and work. Movement Matters is also a supporter of many nonprofit and charitable organizations. We offer free screenings to new patients in doctors' offices and in both of our clinics.

Movement Matters in Guatemala
Our clinicians went to volunteer in Guatemala in April 2011, offering therapy services to children with limb deformities and cleft palates and helping with the local communities. Follow our travel log on facebook or twitter.

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Meet Little Louisa from Guatemala