Our Services

The New York State (NYS) Early Intervention Program provides screening, evaluation, and developmental services at no cost to families of eligible children under three years old. Ability Builders for Children is an NYS approved provider with multiple decades of experience in the field. We help you navigate the process and bringing timely, trusted and reliable care via secure tele-services or right to your home.

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Service Coordination

In Early Intervention, a service coordinator is your family's personal guide — connecting you with the right services, coordinating your child's care team, and walking you through every step from evaluation to transition.

At Ability Builders for Children, our service coordinators make a complex system simple, so you always know what comes next. Our goal is to support you fully so you never feel alone.

Screening and Evaluations

A screening is a quick, no-pressure check of how your child is developing; if helpful, a full evaluation takes a closer look across areas like speech, movement, behavior, self-help (e.g. feeding), learning, vision, hearing and play.

At Ability Builders for Children, evaluations are performed by expert clinicians who specialize in early childhood and can assess your child in more than 30 languages — so your family is understood every step of the way. .

Home-based Services

Ability Builders for Children brings educational and therapeutic services right to your home, where your child feels safest and learns best. If you prefer, secure and convenient tele-services are also available to you.

Based on your child's evaluation, we match the right specialists — speech, occupational, and physical therapy, special instruction, ABA, vision, social and counseling — and coach your family with strategies you can use every day.

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About Us

Ability Builders started in the early 2000s, when a group of therapists set out to build something better for kids. The approach was simple then and it hasn’t changed: do excellent work, do it on time, and treat every family with respect and care.

We opened with one employee in a single room in Flushing, Queens. Today we’re a team of dozens, supported by hundreds of contracted therapists, teachers, social workers, and psychologists across the city and throughout New York State.

In the two decades since, we’ve worked with tens of thousands of New York families and children and dedicated early childhood professionals — and we’re just getting started.

We’ve also been a steady partner to the professionals who make that work possible. Early Intervention has seen its share of disruption over the years — software system transitions, rate changes, delays in reimbursement — and through all of it, our providers have been paid on schedule and supported the same way they always were. Twenty years of that isn’t luck. It’s a commitment to the team that makes a difference!

As we head into our third decade, that commitment is unchanged: to the children, families, and Early Intervention providers of New York City and every county we serve.

If you’re a parent with questions about your child’s development, reach out — we’ll help you understand your options and what comes next. And if you’re a therapist, teacher, social worker, or psychologist looking for an agency that will have your back, we’d like to hear from you.

Our Core Beliefs

At Ability Builders for Children, we believe every child deserves the chance to reach their full potential — intellectually, emotionally, and physically. We see the unique strengths in each child, and we know they thrive when supported within their family and community.That belief drives how we work: care that's centered on your family, delivered on time, and focused on real results for your child.

Our Team

Our team reflects the rich diversity of New York, and that diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Many of our staff are first- and second-generation immigrants from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe, representing dozens of ethnic groups and speaking nearly a dozen languages between them.We know how much it matters to be understood in your own language. Our team speaks Spanish, French, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, Tagalog, Cebuano, Russian, Ga, Twi, Arabic, and Ewe — with interpreters and consultants available for many more. That fluency, paired with a real understanding of different cultures and traditions, means we can meet each family where they are.Above all, we believe in the dignity of every individual, and we treat every family we serve with warmth, respect, and the highest regard.

What people are saying about Ability Builders for Children--

Jo Ann, ISC

“Thanking H--- and all your staffing coordinators for working so hard to staff my difficult to staff cases. They always get to me quickly and they update me promptly when they find someone."

Ed, Occupational Therapist

"Thank you to the staffers, specially P---, for getting me the Westchester cases that I wanted and for offering tons of cases in the areas in Mamaroneck that I service. Kudos for the amazing communication. "

Lisa, Parent

“A--- is a phenomenal service coordinator. She is very helpful and follows up with me right away. She always makes me feel heard and she cares for my family
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