Hopscotch Occupational Therapy

10/10/2025

Have you checked out the amazing resources available on the DCD Australia Inc. website? Great to share with teachers and others working with your child!

06/10/2025

✨It’s Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) Awareness Week✨

This Wednesday, we will be wearing a touch of teal and handing out some pencils at Hopscotch to promote awareness and understanding of DCD. Join us in wearing a touch of teal if you are visiting us in clinic!

25/09/2025

💡Mindful Listening 💭

Mindful listening is a technique where we make a conscious effort to be in the moment and listen to what the other person has to say. By being present with someone in the moment and letting go of the concerns of the future (being late, how this behaviour may impact them at school), and tuning into what they are saying with their words and their body, we can learn so much! When we are being mindful with kids, it can be easier to see what they are happy or angry about and understand the effect it is having on their emotions and their point of view, and can help us feel less stressed as well. It is a great tool to help with co-regulation, and supports us to support kids to find their calm and understand what they are trying to communicate.

23/09/2025

Last term our OT's Jess and Mel completed the 'Occupational Performance Coaching' professional development course!

This month-long program involves learning and consolidating many skills, including strategies of how to work collaboratively with parents and families to ensure that the goals and strategies are not only beneficial, but also important to your lives. The program focuses on how to combine the knowledge of an OT with the expertise of parents. They look forward to bringing newly learnt skills to parent coaching sessions.

17/09/2025

✨ Skills For School✨

Join us for Skills For School over the September school holidays. The group is for children starting school in 2026. We will use a mixture of structured and play based tasks to work on social and emotional skills, attention and listening, fine and gross motor skills.

One spot left, get in quick! 1300 467 192 or admin@hopscotchot.com.au.

16/09/2025

✨Footy Club ✨
Join us for Footy Club group during the upcoming September holidays. This group will support your child's gross motors skills, flexible thinking skills, emotional regulation and social development. Sessions will be held at the clinic and include visits to the park to practice footy skills. Contact us to find out more on 1300 467 192 or admin@hopscotchot.com.au.

12/08/2025

We are very happy to welcome Elle back to the team after time off with her growing family!

Elle has extensive experience in working with children and their families in a variety of community and school-based settings.

"I am passionate about working within a child and family-centred approach to work towards goals that are achievable and meaningful. I believe in making therapy fun, playful and engaging for each wonderful child." Elle, OT

06/08/2025

🤏 Fine motor skills at home 🧼
As OTs, we are always looking for fun new ways to encourage the development of fine motor skills, especially in the lead up to prep. We especially love it when fine motor activities can be helpful around the home! Here are a few ideas for how you can get your kids using those fingers whilst helping out around the house!

04/08/2025

✨Join the team at Hopscotch OT✨

If you or someone you know is passionate about supporting children and their families to achieve their goals please get in touch.

At Hopscotch OT we are committed to providing:
✔️Flexible work hours to suit your lifestyle
✔️A highly supportive workplace
✔️Weekly 1:1 supervision
✔️Opportunity to progress to senior OT roles
✔️Above award rate of pay

Clinic based position, with some local school visits. Full time or part time positions available.

Want to have a chat and find out more contact us on 1300 467 192 or admin@hopscotchot.com.au

New Grads through to Senior OT roles available- FT/PT. Join us and work along side experienced OT's in a purpose built clinic.

28/07/2025

🗣️ Name it to tame it! 💬

When working on emotional regulation skills, we spend a lot of time identifying our body signals to help us notice our emotions, and develop strategies we can use to regulate our emotions, a step that is sometimes overlooked is “name it to tame it”.

This is the brief moment we take to actually state our current emotion either in our heads or out loud. When we do this, we activate the thinking part of our brain and help to connect how we feel in our body, to what is going on in our heads. The action of labelling the feeling itself has a calming effect on our body. We love to teach children about this step to help them connect their brains to their bodies!

24/07/2025

👨‍🍳 Cooking Group 🍳
Over the July school holidays we ran cooking group! The kids who attended had a lot of fun while learning different life skills like budgeting, following recipes and building skills in working with a team.

If you are interested in attending future group programs reach out to us at admin@hopscotchot.com.au

02/07/2025