Pediatric Occupational Therapist
16,870 active US providers register Pediatric Occupational Therapist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 94th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 225XP0200X
- Grouping
- Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers
- Classification
- Occupational Therapist
- Specialization
- Pediatrics
- Active providers
- 16,870
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Occupational therapists provide services to infants, toddlers and children who have or who are at risk for developmental delays or disabilities. Occupational therapy is concerned with a child's ability to participate in daily life activities or "occupations." Occupational therapists use their unique expertise to help children with social-emotional, physical, cognitive, communication, and adaptive behavioral challenges and to help children to be prepared for and perform important learning and school-related activities and to fulfill their rule as students. Through an understanding of the impact of disability, illness, and impairment on a child's development, plan, ability to learn new skills, and overall occupational performance, occupational therapists design interventions that promote healthy development, establish needed skills, and/or modify environments, all in support of participation in daily activities.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,272 | |
| California | 1,877 | |
| Texas | 1,177 | |
| Florida | 897 | |
| Illinois | 814 | |
| New Jersey | 621 | |
| North Carolina | 529 | |
| Georgia | 523 | |
| Pennsylvania | 519 | |
| Ohio | 500 | |
| Massachusetts | 488 | |
| Colorado | 447 | |
| Washington | 421 | |
| Virginia | 379 | |
| Arizona | 338 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
15,042 of these are people and 1,828 are organisations, so 11% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2015, and 4,516 registered in the last five years, 27% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- NEW YORK, NY263
- BROOKLYN, NY258
- CHICAGO, IL204
- HOUSTON, TX137
- FULLERTON, CA136
- SAN DIEGO, CA133
- LOS ANGELES, CA120
- KENMORE, NY110
- DALLAS, TX108
- AUSTIN, TX107
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pediatric Occupational Therapist most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Occupational Therapist | 1,557 | 9.2% |
| Speech-Language Pathologist | 414 | 2.5% |
| Pediatric Physical Therapist | 327 | 1.9% |
| Feeding, Eating & Swallowing Occupational Therapist | 185 | 1.1% |
| Physical Rehabilitation Occupational Therapist | 158 | 0.9% |
| Neurorehabilitation Occupational Therapist | 110 | 0.7% |
| Occupational Therapy Assistant | 108 | 0.6% |
| Physical Therapist | 69 | 0.4% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Occupational Therapist.
- Hand Occupational Therapist3,483
- Physical Rehabilitation Occupational Therapist2,676
- Gerontology Occupational Therapist895
- Neurorehabilitation Occupational Therapist727
- Mental Health Occupational Therapist573
- Occupational Therapist141,688
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.