Transforming Kids Therapy Services

08/10/2025

Development is messy! A great option for when everyone is ahhhhh, is getting messy. Embrace development and exploration and get messy. Ideas in our stories.

05/10/2025

Hiding on the loo??? School holidays doesn't have to be stressful. We have ideas for fun outside time!

26/08/2025

NDIS Changes create quality improvement options for Health and Education. Here is ONE Idea!

24/08/2025

Instead of wasting money creating THRIVING KIDS, we could invest in creating education and teacher development programs within the education systems. One repetitive challenge we encounter is working with educators who have not been trained to provide education supports to the neurodiverse population. Teachers are expected to implement 'reasonable adjustments' which require an understanding of developmental principles and knowledge, yet they are not trained to understand these principles or how to apply to their students.

A 2022 People Matter Employee Survey revealed that two-thirds of NSW public school teachers reported feeling burnt out. Only about 32% felt they could manage work stress, and just 19% believed they had enough time to do their job well or were fairly paid.

Psychological injuries linked to workload have surged—from 349 cases in 2021–22 to 577 in 2022–23—as recognized by the NSW Teachers Federation and a parliamentary committee.

Lets support educators!

23/08/2025

The NDIS is being redesigned and split into Thriving Kids (we don't know what this model is, because they haven't shared their ideas). Here is 1 idea instead of wasting money creating ANOTHER Scheme. More coming....

22/08/2025

The Current Government NDIS Rhetoric is STUPID. Why? Lets take a look.

21/08/2025

The NDIS is not just a cost — it acts like an economic investment. The money flows to businesses and workers, who then pay taxes, spend in the economy, and reduce reliance on other government services. That circular flow of funds is why the government can justify such a large spend. YET, It plans to cut access for the disabled and the families in which NEED Support. This makes no sense.

21/07/2025

PLAY, can be as simple as sitting in a plastic tub with duplo. Babies, toddlers, adolescents, teens, adults, we all need varied sensory input and experiences. For brains of all ages, we want inside and outside time, exploring varied activities which are self initaited, joyful and meaningful. These opportunities provide opportunities to be stimulated and learn connections between seeing, touching, hearing ect. Ideas in our stories.

14/07/2025

How did you play or Work this weekend??

Play isn't just for kids, adults do it throughout our day as well. Play has been shown to improve our mental functions such as memory and for kids enables development faster as it stimulates dopamine which supports coding or new skills, meaning less reps!

So how did you play this weekend?

11/07/2025

How are you spending your time this weekend? Are you playing or are you working?
As adults we still play yet, in our community we often de-value play to something a child only does in their spare time.
Research has shown that play is necessary for mental wellbeing and that is improves our overall cognitive functioning.
So this weekend, lets examine what we do as adults and find what activities we do this weekend is play and what is work?

26/02/2025

Dyspraxia or developmental coordination disorder is a brain and body disconnect. It can present in varied ways from challenges with ideation and how we string ideas along to plan or map out actions and coordinating movements.
Praxis and the ability to plan and map out actions is heavily involved in thinking and our ability to formulate our ideas to enable communication of our thoughts.
Stay tuned for links and freebies on at home supports for supporting the development of Praxis.

19/02/2025

Autism is one form of Neurodivergence.

Autism does not mean you need multiple forms of intervention. Nor does it mean you need a certain frequency or hours of intervention.

The types of services you engage with should be focused on supporting your goals in developing skills on your journey of living a purposeful and meaningful life. All to often Paediatricans, Allied health professionals, teachers and family provide your with 'shoulds'. You should be:
- doing ABA and 40 hours of service
- Seeing an OT/ SLP/ Counsellor
- You should be supporting you a set way

And it is simply NOT TRUE.

The services you choose are your choice and any recommendation should be backed by evidence based practice:
- Research
- Your lived experience and Your preferences
- Clinical experience

This deep dive podcast breaks through the dogma of autism intervention and helps you to understand the three main branches of autism intervention and their very different mechanisms, the quality of autism research with a huge shift in our understanding of what works, and addresses such questions as....