History
In 1998 Clinical Director, Rachel Fisch-Kaplan, opened her first office on West 82nd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Over the next 13 years, Rachel met and trained a series of talented therapists who worked along side her, helping her practice grow from a one-person entity to an award winning team of speech therapists known as CommuniKids. In 2011 the New York office moved to its current sunny street level location on West 79th Street. These new offices provided us with the opportunity to create a sensory gym and in January 2012, occupational therapy services were added to our scope of practice in Manhattan. Director of Occupational Therapy, Laura Martucci, began her association with CommuniKids in 2005 after working directly with Ms. Fisch-Kaplan's own daughter.
Specialties
We recognize that every child is unique. After fully assessing your son or daughter's strengths and areas of concern, we design an individualized therapeutic program. CommuniKids is a full service speech-language & occupational therapy practice, with offices on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A sister location can be found in Summit, New Jersey. Specializing in all areas that effect the pediatric population, CommuniKids' team of speech therapists each have advanced training in articulation remediation, expressive and receptive language expansion, oral-motor strengthening, feeding issues, stuttering and social skills. Our occupational therapists are highly trained in addressing fine-motor, gross-motor, ocular-motor and sensory integration issues. As a multi-disciplinary practice, we collaborate both internally and externally to assist children with speech, language and motor delays as well as autistic spectrum, attention deficit, auditory processing and sensory processing disorders. Because of this we are uniquely positioned to provide co-treatments and back-to-back sessions for our clients in need of multiple therapies.