Individual therapy sessions:
- Typically 50 minutes of face to face therapy. Our dedicated and highly skilled therapists utilise the remaining 10 minutes of the hour to plan individualised therapy activities and goals, based on their clinical observation to ensure the child is receiving optimal therapy consistently from week to week.
- We welcome parents and on occasion, siblings into the sessions when appropriate, which allows for therapy to be realistic and suitable for the whole family to continue to apply in the natural home environment too.
Zoom / tele therapy:
- We understand that OT services can be hard to come by, especially in rural communities. Childworks has therefore established a Rural Outreach Programme whereby therapy to rural communities such as Bathurst, Orange and others, can access OT via Telehealth.
- Additionally, zoom sessions can be arranged for any client who may be unable to get to their clinic appointment for example due to sickness or other family members’ commitments.
Home, School & Pre School Visits:
- These can be arranged to be weekly, fortnightly or once off visits to assess and provide support to clients in their natural settings. Therapists have the opportunity once there to ensure the learning and living environments are best set up to suit clients physical or sensory needs.
Standby Waitlist:
- We understand that waitlists can be lengthy! Let us offer you a few once-off sessions when our therapists get a cancellation. We can provide client: therapist or parent: therapist support and home programme resources during these sessions that you can continue to use as you await a permanent therapy spot.
Multidisciplinary meetings (virtual and onsite):
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We are solely an OT clinic, but we understand that best practice for children’s optimal therapy is to provide a holistic approach that includes a child’s speech, physical, mental, social, academic and developmental contexts. Thus, to ensure continuity of care throughout a child’s natural daily contexts (school teachers & support team, speech therapists, psychologists, paediatricians, dieticians), our therapists arrange regular meetings.
Programmes to address various skills including:
- Handwriting (Write On), School readiness (Ready, Set, Kindy!) and Social skills (Ready, Set, Socialise! School holiday Lego club).
Client and family centred therapy:
- When children have autonomy in designing their own therapy goals, they will have increased motivation to be involved in therapy. Our therapists work to ensure that both the clients and families can make evidence based and informed decisions regarding therapy goals.
No cancellation fee for sickness
- Just let us know your child won’t be attending to avoid ‘no show’ fee.
NDIS reports, equipment and funding reports, school letter of recommended strategies, progress reports:
- and more upon request!
We look after our staff so they can look after you!
We have many staff benefits including bonuses, team building days, Professional development and supervision weekly, birthday leave, hybrid and flexible work schedule.
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