Blue Goose Therapy Services

02/04/2025

We absolutely love this speech! Such a brave young person! 💙

04/02/2025

When you arrive for your appointment and make a new friend ♡....
Social communication is a key factor in making new friends and as we return to school, or start school for the first time, we meet new people and learn new communication styles.
If you have a child that is struggling to make friends, take turns, share, approach others, or play with their peers, Speech Therapy may be able to assist in targeting such skills.
📞 0466 619 557 to find out more about appointments
📧 reception@bluegooseot.com.au

17/12/2024

Because you're never too old to have your photo taken with Santa 🤶🎅🧑‍🎄💙

📸 of our Director, and Principal OT Anna

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01/10/2024

Are you an experienced Paediatric Occupational Therapist, who is passionate about OT for children?
Are you looking for a role with flexibility with a caseload that allows both clinic and community work?
Would you love to be a part of a vibrant and enthusiastic team of allied health professionals?
If the answers to these questions are,

"YES! ",

then email "PICK ME" to hello@bluegooseot.com.au attaching your resume telling us why you would be a a fabulous, and client focused addition to the Blue Goose Crew! 💙

10/07/2024

The Blue Goose fairy door has had a spruce up over the weekend 💙

We have seen sooo many little goslings visit over the school holidays.
The fairies obviously noticed too, so decided some renos were called for! 🧚‍♀️

25/06/2024

Why does it seem like all my child does is play games in OT???

What can we possibly be targeting when we play a game with your gosling?

Here's the why!

📍play is one a children's occupations
📍fine motor skills
📍social communication
📍winning/losing/turn taking
📍attention and concentration
📍self regulation
📍visual perception
📍executive functioning skills

And soooo much more! 💪🏼

Don't be frightened to ask us questions if you're not sure which goals we are trying to target!

Whilst we always try to be informative as we go through our sessions, sometimes we're just so caught up in the activities, because we LOVE play, that we might forget! 💙

11/06/2024

Let them be little!!!! ⬇️

BENEFITS OF RECESS AS A REGULATION TOOL FOR KIDS

Kids need recess as a regulation tool to help them sit still during class and to attend and focus for longer periods of time. Here's why...

11/06/2024

For a child that doesn't enjoy fine motor activities at school, this little gosling did pretty well in OT 💙

So what made the difference?

📍The theme was motivating to him
📍The activity was achievable
📍The activity was graded to his ability
📍It was fun!
📍We worked as a team
📍He was encouraged and praised (even when he tried)

Pssttt....he also traced over his name, but we can't show you that for confidentiality reasons 💙

10/01/2024

SPOONS!!!! 🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

How many do you have today? Theory would suggest that we wake up with an endless amount....

But, imagine starting your day with only a certain number of spoons....let's say 10....(round numbers are good! 😎) ..those 10 spoons need to get us through the day.....the entire day!
The spoons represent how much 'energy' we have, be it physical or emotional to function throughout the day!
For neurodivergent people these spoons can be impacted in a number of ways.

Spoons are used up by executive functioning skills, communication or social skills, sensory processing and so on, and can be impacted by insufficient or poor quality of sleep, sickness, changes in routines, too many things scheduled in...and when they are spent, that's it!!!!
But what if we learnt how to put some spoons back during the day?

What if....we learnt how, or were able, to co-regulate with our goslings to make sure that the spoons don't run out?

Then they'd make it through the day....right?

So next time your gosling looks like they're frustrated, holding in their emotions, masking, people pleasing, covering their ears, moving around in their seat, avoiding demands and expectations, think about their spoons 'for'  them...

Is it time to say no to that extra invite this week, or a trip to the beach?
Is it time to create a schedule for them, even with them, to help decrease their anxiety by increasing the certainty around them?
Is it time to sit down with their teacher and explain what spoons 'are' and how your gosling needs help (co-regulation) throughout the day to ensure they have enough spoons to make it through!
Maybe they have more social spoons and less executive functioning spoons, more communication spoons and less sensory processing spoons....we're not all made the same!
So next time you're gosling is struggling, think about how many spoons they have left?
And, what needs to change?

21/12/2023

Today was our last clinical day and tomorrow we will be having our annual clinic tidy up and team lunch.

If you do need to speak to us tomorrow, the phone will be manned until noon, after that, we're on our holidays and will see you in the new year! 💙

Thank you to all for your support throughout the year!

Happy Christmas to you all 🎄