Amazing Kids Occupational Therapy

08/09/2025

This explains Regulation beautifully!

🧠 People often use the word “regulated” as if it is a synonym for “calm.”

⚖️ Regulated means your energy levels match the task at hand. Dysregulated means your energy levels do not match the task. Executive functioning skills, such as working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-control, play a significant role in helping individuals regulate their energy levels.

🌟 Helping a child regulate can sometimes mean placing them in an environment where their energy levels match the setting. Other times, it involves helping their body meet its needs so that their energy levels align with the upcoming task. This can include strategies to improve executive functioning skills, such as practicing self-control or using tools to enhance working memory.

Being REGULATED means your energy levels match the task. It does not mean ‘calm’.
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17/08/2025

This says it all!

28/07/2025

23/07/2025

This is a simplified outline of Vesitbular processing but it provides a good overview.

13/07/2025

Play is the primary occupation of children and it supports brain development in so many ways.

11/07/2025

I love this!

We’re often so quick to correct, to manage, to change a child’s behaviour — but what if their behaviour is inviting something to shift in us?

What if the meltdown is asking us to slow down?�The defiance, to reflect on how we lead?�The clinginess, to reconnect?�The boundary-pushing, to examine our own?

Children don’t always have the words — but they do have the wisdom.�
Their behaviour isn’t just a reflection of their needs. Sometimes, it’s a mirror for our own growth.

So before we rush to fix the surface,�let’s be brave enough to look underneath.�
Because the change we seek in them, might just begin within us. ❤️

08/07/2025

There are so many “why’s”

05/07/2025

Greg Santucci OT developed this concept years ago, but it serves as a reminder that sticker rewards and tokens are not the same as an adult receiving a financial reward for their work. Token systems can be detrimental to the development of internal motivation. Furthermore, it overlooks the child who may be struggling to achieve the task for various underlying reasons beyond mere motivation.

28/06/2025

This is such an important read to stand up to what the NDIA are doing to Allied Health providers and participants. The only thing I would have added was that it has been reported that approximately $43.5 million was spent on legal fees at the appeals tribunal in 23-24, and over 70% of cases were overturned in favour of the participant.

If the NDIA is serious about occupational therapy reform, it’s time to stop making decisions in a vacuum, writes Helen Whait.

18/06/2025

Jackie from Kid Link Occupational Therapy highlights the profound impact of the NDIS cuts to travel and the price freeze on OT rates for the seventh consecutive year. This echoes our sentiments at Amazing Kids OT, where we strive to empower families, and worry that these changes may limit our ability to offer community-based sessions.

14/06/2025

NDIA has maintained the rates for OT and Speech Pathology at the same level for seven years, despite significant increases in operational costs for small therapy clinics, including wages, rent, insurance, utilities, and professional development. Consequently, small businesses are experiencing financial difficulties, with an estimated 60% of Allied Health businesses operating on narrow margins or at a loss. Furthermore, NDIA has proposed reducing travel costs by half and decreasing the rates for Physio, Dietetics, and Podiatry, which is unsustainable and will likely result in clients in regional and rural areas receiving inadequate services. Write to your local ministers & the NDIA executives and support Allied Health!

12/06/2025

Changing your perspective on your child's behavior can alter their behavior. Relational neuroscience now proves that viewing behavior through a compassionate and curious lens helps to rewire your child's nervous system.