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Paediatric Play

⭐️ Creating a Difference & Making Possibilities ⭐️
📍 Goodwood | Bellevue Heights
👫 OT• Physiotherapy• Speech Therapy
📚 Psychology• Early Childhood• DE

Paediatric Play believes that every child is unique. By encouraging play we can encourage development, assist children with life skills that provide them with useful tools and strategies to be the best version of themselves. We use a child-focused and family-centered approach that empowers children and their families to thrive and achieve their greatest potential. Specialist Areas include:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Global Developmental Delay
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Sensory Processing Disorder
- Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia)

Occupational Therapy supports children to build on their strengths, enables children to participate in activities (occupations) they find meaningful and bridge the gaps in their development so they can participate in activities with confidence and motivation. These are the following:

1. Gross Motor Skills
Large muscles within the body that are needed for playground games, balance, coordination, posture, muscle tone, strength and endurance.

2. Fine Motor Skills
Hands and fingers that activate manipulation, finger/hand strength, hand division and hand dominance for activities such as handwriting, cutting and cutlery.

3. Sensory Processing
Children receive, interpret and respond to sensory information. Children can often be under or over-reactive to emotions, sound, movement, vision, taste, touch, smell and pressure.

4. Visual Motor Integration (VMI)
Visual information and matching with the appropriate motor actions, e.g. puzzles, handwriting, ball throwing and catching. Children with VMI difficulties exhibit poor visual motor coordination, backwards letter and number.

5. Play
Socialising, taking turns, playing with others, exploring play interests, making friends, confidence, eye contact and interactions.

28/08/2025

Using the Zones of Regulation to help kids understand their feelings. A great tool for emotional growth! 🧠

18/08/2025

This week we celebrate stories, characters, and the joy of books during Book Week 2025 📚

13/08/2025

Psychologists dive deep into how we think, feel, and act, helping us navigate life’s ups and downs🧠NDIS can make these supports accessible by funding psychology to help support life’s challenges✨

10/08/2025

“Bullying: No Way! Week” is a time to stand up against bullying and promote kindness, respect, and inclusion in our schools and communities. Let’s work together to create a safe and supportive environment for everyone!

24/07/2025

MEET NADEEN✨

Hi, I’m Nadeen, a newly graduated Speech Pathologist with a passion for working with children. I’m committed to supporting both children and their families in achieving their communication goals. I believe in building strong, collaborative relationships to help each child feel confident, understood, and empowered in their communication journey.

17/07/2025

Meet Maria🎶

Hi, I’m Maria! I’m a passionate senior occupational therapist who loves supporting children to achieve their goals through play and joy-filled intervention. I work through a holistic and neuroaffirming lens, ensuring fun and meaningful engagement is always at the heart of my practice.
I have worked with a wide range of conditions across both community and clinic settings, supporting clients across the lifespan with their motor skills, emotional regulation, executive functioning, sensory processing, and activities of daily living. Throughout my career I have discovered my true passion lies within the paediatric space. I also have experience administering functional capacity assessments to support clients on their NDIS journey.

Outside of work, you will usually find me spending time with friends and family, going for a run, listening to music, or enjoying a coffee.

16/07/2025

Key Word Sign is a simplified form of sign language that uses signs to support spoken words. It can help people with communication difficulties express their needs, wants, and ideas more easily 🗣️
It’s also a great tool for teaching language and literacy skills!

04/07/2025

That’s a wrap on Term 2 👏🏼 We hope everyone enjoys their mid-year break!

30/06/2025

Physiotherapy and Exercise Physiology available now

In-Clinic and Community

2 Locations
Bellevue Heights: Children
Goodwood: Teenagers and Adult (New Space)

Our new Goodwood Road clinic will be equipped with rowing machines, ski ergs, spin bikes, smith machine, weights, and functional trainer machines.

For more information and a complementary phone call please contact us on 83181444 or email admin@paediatricplay.com.au

Paediatric Play is an In-Clinic and Community Allied Health Service Provider across South Australia. Paediatric Play offer Allied Health services like Occupational and Speech Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Developmental Educator and Allied Health Assistance.

17/06/2025

Mikaela our Team Leader Occupational Therapist attended a 2-day Feeding Assessment and Intervention training course held on the Sunshine Coast by The Brisbane Feeding Clinic: Pippa Van Wijk and Carly Betts☀️

Mikaela learnt about:
- Frame works for eating and feeding
- Competency in learnt structures for assessing eating and feeding difficulties in children
- Gained understanding of basic oral-motor markers for eating difficulties
- Understanding of the importance of positioning on eating
- Understanding of the impact of routine in eating and meal times
- understanding gained on the medical and physiological (breathing and gut) components underlying the foundation of eating skills.
- Leant framework for intervention of eating and feeding difficulties in children
- Oral motor strategies and intervention techniques
- Understanding of the use of oral motor tools and food in therapy
- Understanding of the multidisciplinary approach to feeding therapy and referral pathways
- Understanding of the environmental factors impacting meal times

18/05/2025

⭐️Join our team at Paediatric Play⭐️
We’re hiring Allied Health Assistants for both casual and full-time positions. Apply now to make a difference in children’s lives!

Address

226 Shepherds Hill Road, Bellevue Heights, SA 5050
Adelaide, SA
5050

Website

http://www.paediatricplay.com.au/

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