Transforming Kids Therapy Services

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....

16/02/2025

Neurotypes are a helpful way of understanding that as a race, humans are neurodivergent and will have many differently wired brains. Looking at differences through a neurodiversity lens can be helpful to step back from a medical model which diagnoses disorders and divergence as wrong or deficit and instead as natural and essential.

Thinking about difference as a Neurotype can be helpful to understand how a person’s brain functions and what can be done to support challenges rather than attempt to ‘fix’ a brain which doesn’t need fixing.