PAEDIATRIC OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Helping children build the skills they need for everyday life.
Supporting development, independence and participation at home, school and in the community.
Understanding Your Child as a Whole
Every child has different strengths, challenges and ways of engaging with the world.
Our Occupational Therapists assess how your child manages everyday activities across areas such as movement, sensory processing, emotional regulation, attention, self-care and participation. This helps us understand what may be getting in the way, what your child already does well, and where therapy can make the biggest difference.
How Occupational Therapy Can Help
Our Occupational Therapists work with children and families to build practical skills for everyday life, with therapy tailored to each child’s strengths, needs and goals.
Sensory Processing
Building resilience to better manage everyday environments.
Self-Care + Independence
Everyday skills such as dressing, eating, toileting and routines.
Emotional Regulation
Helping children recognise, manage and respond to emotions.
Social + School Participation
Engagement, transitions, play and navigating friendships.
Motor Skills
Develop balance, coordination, fine motor and movement confidence.
Attention + Executive Function
Planning, organisation, sequencing, task initiation and completion.
“The goal isn’t simply to build skills in the clinic — it’s to help children use them in everyday life.”
Learning Through Movement + Play
Our Occupational Therapists use purposeful movement, exercise, play and skill-based activities to help children practise the abilities they need in everyday life.
Activities are selected around each child's goals and may target sensory processing, coordination, balance, attention, planning, regulation and motor skills.
Therapy should be challenging enough to build skills, while still being engaging enough for children to want to participate.
“Progress looks different for every child. Therapy should too.”
Innovative Tools. Engaging Therapy.
We use a range of interactive tools alongside movement, play and traditional therapy activities to create engaging, goal-directed sessions.
By incorporating technology use as part of a structured therapy session, we help children build essential skills and develop their capacity in a way that feels like play while delivering real, measurable progress. These tools allow us to challenge children in creative ways, tailoring therapy to their individual needs while making each session enjoyable and impactful.
Virtual Reality (VR) Technology
Interactive activities targeting regulation, planning and problem-solving in a controlled environment.
Reaction Light Therapy
Targeting visual-motor coordination, attention and impulse control with dynamic, light-based physical & cognitive challenges.
Visual-Proprioceptive Feedback
Motion guided lasers provide real-time feedback to support body awareness with balance, strength and coordination activities.
What to expect
From thorough assessments to dynamic therapy plans, we partner with children and families to create practical strategies tailored to each child’s unique developmental and functional needs.
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1 hour in clinic + assessment reporting
We start by understanding your concerns, your child's strengths and their everyday functioning.
Assessment may include parent interview, clinical observation and standardised or functional assessment across relevant areas such as sensory processing, motor skills, visual-motor integration, balance and neurodevelopment.
You'll receive a report outlining the findings and recommendations.
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1 hour · Telehealth
We talk through the assessment findings, establish meaningful therapy goals and discuss practical strategies for home, school and everyday routines.
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Typically weekly · 10–12 week blocks
Your child begins an individual therapy program built around their goals. Weekly sessions combine purposeful activity, movement and play, with regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt therapy as skills develop.
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Therapy & Funding
Initial Assessment + Report
from $579Regular Therapy
$225 per session
Occupational Therapist Hourly Rate:
Our Hourly rate is $193 per hour in line with the current NDIS Pricing Limits 1 July 2026.
Additional testing, case conferencing and progress reporting are available upon request.We support Plan-managed and Self-managed NDIS participants, as well as eligible Medicare and private health clients.
Meet Our Occupational Therapists
Our team is dedicated to supporting children and families with practical tools tailored to their needs.
Explore Common Concerns
Retained Primitive Reflexes
Understanding early reflex patterns and how they may relate to movement and development.
School Readiness
Does your child have the physical, emotional, social and sensory skills they need to participate, learn and manage the transition to school?
Developmental Milestones
Understanding development and when additional support may be helpful.
Wondering if Occupational Therapy is right for your child?
Contact our team on 0466 074 208 or click the button below.
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