Upper East Side Sensory Gym
Where children overcome challenges with sensory processing, gross motor, and fine motor skills.
Upper East Side Sensory Gym
Where children overcome challenges with sensory processing, gross motor, and fine motor skills.
Sensory Processing Treatment
What Treatment Looks Like
Kinetic Kids Occupational Therapy, PLLC, stands out in its ability to help children with sensory processing challenges accurately detect, regulate, and interpret sensations. This unique approach enables them to form appropriate motor and behavioral responses, empowering them to perform everyday activities.
Treatment focuses on child-driven movement tasks and is fun! Children are challenged through subtly structured sessions and feel successful in completing each activity. The sensory gym contains suspended equipment, balls, climbing structures, crash pads, and other sensory equipment. Erin, the owner, took pride in designing all four gyms herself after she found other gyms she had been at before too restrictive regarding their potential for child-driven movement tasks. Sessions also focus heavily on play, relationships, and regulation, giving children a sense of success. The sensory gyms are individualized, so families can work closely with the therapists.
We are iLs-trained SSP Providers!
The Safe and Sound Protocol is designed to work with a person's nervous system. When the child feels safe, calm, and relaxed, their nervous system will be receptive to new acoustic stimuli within the frequency band of human communication, maximizing the intervention's effectiveness. While feeling safe, calm, and relaxed may be difficult for many children, you can help by creating this calming environment for the intervention administration.
Sensory Intensives
Kinetic Kids offers OT treatment intensives.
- OT treatment intensives are customized to meet each child’s needs – programs will vary but are typically 1-3 months, with OT provided 3-5x weekly.
- Programming includes standardized evaluation, direct intervention, and parent education sessions.
- Increasing the intensity and frequency of treatment strengthens the central nervous system, allowing the brain to make new, more effective connections for sensory processing.
- Research suggests this model can effectively remediate motor, social-emotional, and adaptive behavior problems for children struggling with sensory processing challenges.
Meet the founder
Erin Lynch, MS, OTR/L
Erin has completed extensive coursework in sensory processing and has been working in the field since 2003. She considers herself an expert on working with children with sensory processing challenges and believes parent education and training are crucial for a child’s success.
Erin has completed her SPD ProCert L1 through STAR Institute and Temple University. This intensive training focuses on:
- Development of advanced clinical reasoning
- Comprehensive sensory-based assessment
- Application of the STAR PROCESS treatment model for intervention
- Treatment effectiveness research for Sensory Processing Disorder.
Erin has completed L2 through STAR and Temple University. This intensive training focuses on:
- Directing treatment to support arousal regulation and engagement
- Use of sensory integration techniques to support the optimal level of arousal and engagement
- Utilization of clinical reasoning to develop interventions and adaptations for SPD based on the STAR PROCESS
Erin has completed her Professional Credentialing in Sensory Processing and is now a Star ProCert 2! She has completed her mentorship level 2, where she got to go to the STAR Institute, work directly with a STAR Institute client to refine her clinical reasoning skills and engage in a reflective learning process.
