SERVICES

Occupational Therapy involves the use of meaningful, therapeutic activities to enable your child to participate to their full potential in daily activities. 

The Paediatric Occupational Therapist (OT) supports families, teachers and other health professionals to maximise children's participation, performance and independence.

The OT works with your child to support participation in: 

Learning/School :

• Attention/ concentration and self-regulation
• Problem solving, memory and organisational skills
• Fine and gross motor skills (e.g. handwriting, sports)
• School readiness
• Learning difficulties

 Play: 

• Joint attention, shared engagement
• Imaginary/pretend play, sensory play
• Fine and gross motor skills  

Social participation: 

• Turn-taking and sharing 
• Emotional regulation skills (e.g. 'The Zones of Regulation',  'ALERT program')
• Social thinking program (e.g. 'We thinkers!')
• Problem solving skills  

Self-care: 

• Toileting, dressing, grooming and showering
• Eating/feeding (e.g. using cutlery, fussy eating)

The Occupational Therapist specialises in working with children from birth to school age with developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, disabilities and behavioural, emotional, social skill and/or sensory processing difficulties.

We provide specialised assessment which is beneficial to help with diagnosis, eligibility for funding and implementing therapy plans/goals.

No referral is needed to see an Occupational Therapist. However, a GP referral is required for services provided through the Chronic Disease Management Plan (CDM or EPC's).

Individualised therapy sessions for your child are recommended following assessment, to achieve the child's goals.