Spring Ahead Pediatric Occupational Therapy

About Spring Ahead Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Spring Ahead Pediatric Occupational Therapy is a pediatric therapy practice in New York City that offers services in a dedicated sensory gym, along with home, school-based, and virtual sessions. The practice provides occupational therapy and physical therapy, and also offers speech therapy through an on-site speech-language pathologist collaboration (Happy Talk NYC). Spring Ahead works with children from newborn through the teen years and designs care around each child’s strengths, interests, and day-to-day routines. The clinic describes its approach as holistic, evidence-based, and play-centered, with the goal of helping children build skills for greater independence and participation in everyday activities at home, school, and in the community.

Therapy programs are individualized and may target areas such as gross motor and fine motor performance, sensory integration, self-help skills, executive function, social skills, and self-regulation. The sensory gym is equipped with suspended apparatus and a range of movement and sensory tools, including multiple swings, a zip line, therapy balls, scooters, and trampolines. Spring Ahead shares that it collaborates with parents, caregivers, educators, and other professionals to support carryover across environments using a combination of individualized sessions, home programs, and school strategies. The team includes Director Jessica Zambito, M.S., OTR/L, along with occupational therapists and assistants listed on the site (including Bianca Bartoli, MS, OTR/L; Nicole Gravalis, OTD, OTR/L, CASI; Heidi Hallenbeck, OTR/L; Kailey Gruber, OTR/L; and Meg Roy, COTA/L), and pediatric physical therapist Tovy Aube, PT, DPT. The practice notes it was founded in 2011 by pediatric occupational therapist Loren Norman, OTR/L. Spring Ahead is a private out-of-network provider and does not accept NYC DOE or EI cases.

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