OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOR YOUR CHILD
At home, school or at kindergarten
Up to 90min sessions
From $75 per session
2-18yrs
We help your child explore their strengths and succeed at whatever they want to achieve.
We work with children and teenagers up to the age of 18. With an expert understanding of child development and paediatric conditions, analysing why a child may be struggling to carry out specific tasks and work to develop a plan to address the specific issues.
The Occupational Therapist facilitates fun games and activities that are tailored to your child's likes and interests. These activities help develop their fine and gross motor skills, social skills, play skills, emotional regulation, self cares and life skills. Working towards achieving your child's goals.
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After your FREE 45 minute online or phone consultation to discuss your concerns.
This will help identify any areas of concern. Following this we will discuss a plan for the first initial assessment with your child.
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Initial Assessment options:
Initial Assessment with report $200 + GST
Initial Assessment without report $150 + GST (email update)
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Ongoing Therapy:
45 minute sessions $75.00 + GST (recommended for 2 - 5 year olds or as specified)
1 hour sessions $100.00 + GST
Note: Travel costs will be discussed as per destination when booking with Explore Therapy.
CHILDREN'S GROUP SESSIONS
Up to 90min sessions
From $100 per session
2-18yrs
Groups are not only fun but effective! Children learn from other children. For children struggling with social anxiety, poor social skills, or even specific skill deficits, the group setting offers the therapist a chance to help each child work through their obstacles with other children as they occur. We offer the following groups depending on numbers and availability.
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Social Skills Groups (focusing on skills of play, joining in, making and maintaining friendships, working in a group, controlling our emotions, listening to others and recipricol conversational skills)
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Handwriting Groups (letter formation, spacing, pencil grip, body control, sentence structure, story writing) ​
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Girls Club ​(self-cares, life skills, social skills and building healthy relationships and lifestyles)​
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School Readiness Groups (prepare your child for school! Including social skills, emotional regulation, fine and gross motor skills, pretend bell times and snack times. A great way to improve skills and confidence to start of school).​
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Proprioceptive Motor Planning (PMP) Groups (developing your child's gross motor skills, primitive reflexes, social skills, resilience and emotional regulation).
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1.5 hour group sessions - $100.00
Holiday intensive 5 day programs 1.5 hours per day - $450.00
PMP group cost will be dependent on the size of the group.
FOOD THERAPY
30min - 60 minute weekly sessions
$80 - $110 per session
2-18yrs
A food program for children with feeding difficulties.
Explore Therapy follows a SOS feeding approach and Kate our Occupational Therapist is SOS trained. The program integrates sensory, oral, medical, motor coordination & planning, behavioral & learning and nutritional factors and approaches in order to comprehensively assess and assist children who experience feeding problems (SOS Approach to Feeding, 2020). Find out more here https://sosapproachtofeeding.com/
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It is recommended that food therapy or SOS feeding program is 10 - 12 week program.
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Food is included in the price;
30 minutes - $50.00
45 minutes - $80.00
60 minutes - $110.00
FREE 45 MIN CONSULTATION
The assessment process is simple. It starts with filling out multiple forms to give us as much background information as possible. We also ask that you provide any reports you have. The more background information we have the better we can tailor our assessment specifically for your child.
Following this we schedule a formal assessment. We use a range of standardised and observational assessments.
Following the assessment, we meet with you to determine therapy goals. It is important that everyone is working on the same goals with the child and for this reason we provide information to kinder/school, other therapists and paediatricians. Sometimes, it may take two sessions to obtain an accurate picture of your child’s development, for example, we may also need to see them at school.
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The Assessment includes a comprehensive report. We feel that this is important so you know exactly where your child is at and how we are going to help them move forward.
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After that, we start therapy sessions. It’s great if parents/carers can attend because then we can teach you the skills you need to help your child at home.
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We assess your childs:
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Gross motor skills and coordination
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Reflexes (are any of your child's primitive reflexes retained and how could these be limiting your childs development)
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Fine motor skills (handwriting, finger manipulation, drawing, cutting, bilateral integration)
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Visual processing skills (can they understand and interpret what they see?)
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Auditory processing (are they processing sound effectively or missing information?)
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Sensory processing (can they cope with all the information they receive?)
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Play skills
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Social skills
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ADL skills (getting dressed, feeding, bathing, self-care)
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Life skills (budgeting, cooking, healthy lifestyle and relationships)