The Pediatric Rehabilitation Service provides inpatient and outpatient services to children and adolescents with a variety of disabilities. All programs are coordinated by a pediatric physiatrist. The goal of the pediatric team is to meet the medical and emotional needs of the children and their families, to help the children become happy, healthy, and productive adults. The children's educational needs are met by an on-site preschool and three Board of Education classrooms.

Pediatric Inpatient Programs
Parents as Partners
Pediatric Occupational Therapy Unit
Pediatric Psychology Service
Pediatric Physical Therapy Program
Pediatric Social Work
Pediatric Therapeutic Recreation
Rhizotomy Program
Speech-Language Pathology Program

Pediatric Out patient Programs
Adaptive Equipment
Educational Services
Pediatric Occupational Therapy Unit
Pediatric Psychology Services
Pediatric Physical Therapy Program
Pool Program
Serial Casting/Splinting
Spasticity Evaluation and Management
Speech-Language Pathology Program
Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation (TES) Program
Therapeutic Play Garden

High-risk infants and children with developmental disabilities, medical complications, and progressive deformities are also treated at the Institute.

Appropriate therapeutic services with defined short- and long-term goals for the patient are prescribed and monitored to ensure that these goals are achieved. Children are assessed for appropriate seating devices, prosthetics, orthotics, and other items of adaptive equipment to help maximize their functional status.

Parents are educated on the nature of their child's disability and offered counseling on how best to cope with nurturing a child with a disability, including the physical, psychological, social, and financial aspects of care.

We welcome referrals for children and adolescents (18 months to 21 years of age) with acute orthopedic, neurological, and rheumatological disabilities that limit mobility, communication and activities of daily living. Some of the conditions that we treat on an impatient basis include major trauma, spinal cord injuries, lower extremity fractures and joint replacements, Guillian Barre Syndrome, and hemiplegia/hemiparesis. Children who are at another hospital or institution can be referred to us by having their Social Worker or hospital Case Manager fax pertinent clinical and insurance information to us. Our fax number is 212-263-8510. The nurses in the Admitting Office would be happy to discuss any child before the information is faxed to us. The phone number is 212-263-6034.

Tours for families of prospective patients can be arranged by calling 212- 263-6034.

If a child is at home and needs an evaluation by a pediatric rehabilitation doctor (physiatrist) please call 212-263-6519 if the child has private insurance and 212-598-2320 if the child is insured by Medicaid.