Paediatric Occupational Therapy

Your first appointment with us will be an Intake Meeting with one of our Senior Therapists. This meeting will help us walk you through the Motivate Kids OT journey and hear from you so we can best tailor your child’s therapy. If applicable we will complete an NDIS Service Agreement together. This is also a great opportunity for our Senior Therapist to answer any questions you might have to ensure a smooth start to therapy.

Your first session is designed as a meet and greet for you and your child to meet your therapist, explore the therapy space and build connection. This also gives your therapist the opportunity to determine the most suitable assessment for your child in the Initial Assessment session.

You will next meet with your therapist to complete our routines based interview assessment. This is for your therapist to gather details of your child’s strengths and challenges. It is also an opportunity for more sensitive discussions to be had if required and for this reason this is purely for the therapist and yourself.

We create a personalised and comprehensive developmental assessment to further identify your child’s strengths and challenges. This provides a baseline to measure progress and enables your therapist to create a tailored therapy plan for your family.

We partner with you to discuss the outcome of your child's assessment and share with you what therapy sessions will look like to best support your child. We will also set specific goals and your home practice program. We will share information on our NDIS reviews, off-site visits and general OT journey etiquette.  

We recognise that children live and engage in a range of environments. We can arrange for your OT to visit childcare, kindergarten, school or home, to provide strategies that complement therapy sessions within this environment. It is also a wonderful opportunity for educators, teachers and care-givers to provide feedback, ask questions and receive guidance to best support your child.

Sessions are one on one and take place weekly or fortnightly at one of our studio's. We invite families to be active in the sessions in order to maximise their child's progress. Outside of therapy sessions, families use of our home program technology to support progress and transference of skills into daily life.

Detailing your child’s strengths, challenges, assessment outcomes and agreed upon goals, we encourage families to share this progress report with the Team Around their Child ie: school, psychologist, speech therapist.

In addition to ongoing occupational therapy, we offer a range of specialty services designed to complement your child’s journey. These include mealtime therapy, group programs, Functional Capacity Assessments, and more—each tailored to meet specific needs and goals as they arise.