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Community and Telehealth based Occupational Therapist for Children and Families

Elise is an experienced Occupational Therapist (OT) who graduated from LaTrobe University in 2018. Since then, she has worked across both private and community practices in Victoria, with a focus on working with children and families. She has worked as a community key worker within the Early Childhood Intervention Service. Elise holds particular skill within domains of sensory processing, behaviou

r and fine and gross motor skills. She aims to help others learn and celebrate their unique differences and to assist them in functioning at their best from day to day. Outside of the clinic, Elise is usually found getting creative with music and keeping herself active while exploring Melbourne. Elise provides occupational therapy within the home, school and community settings.

26/10/2023

Sensory input is how children learn. Give them lots of opportunities to play freely, explore, move, climb, hang up side down, take their shoes off and get dirty. 💡🌈🫧

19/10/2023

Let your child have the opportunity to be creative ✨✨ This takes time and won’t happen straight away, it needs the thinking process away from distractions 👩‍🎨🦄🍄☄️🌈🫧

13/10/2023

A multitude of transferable skills learnt by cutting on lines ✂️✂️

06/10/2023

🛝🃏👾🎯🎉✨

28/09/2023

Fun ways to work on fine motor skills during your daily outdoor walk ☀️🌿

14/09/2023

Tips for working up the levels:

Move slowly

Be in front of your child so they can SEE you coming

Say what you are going to do as you reach towards the item so they can HEAR you coming (e.g. “Wow... look at thaaaat... train!”)

If your child shows resistance to what you're about to do, 'pull back' – this shows them that you are responding to what they are communicating to you. After pulling back and letting your child calm, playfully persist in your pursuit in getting involved with what they're doing – i.e. gradually step back up the levels of intrusiveness again.

07/09/2023

To achieve our Floortime goals, it is essential that we can get into our children's space and share activities with them. Some children, however, will have difficulty letting us get 'into their space'. When an adult gets close, the child may feel confronted, intruded upon, or anxious that they will lose control over the object they are playing with, and so they may respond with behaviours like turning away from you, hitting out, or screaming.

It will be important for us to “read” the “clues” that show us whether the child is anxious or comfortable as we approach so that we can adjust what we are doing to help the child stay calm while we approach. These “levels of intrusiveness” show how intrusive (or confronting) what WE do may seem to a child, from most to least intrusive. The principle is, that we start from the least intrusive inputs and work our way up to the most intrusive inputs.

This is also called a “slow approach”. If at any stage your child seems to be getting anxious or upset, we “step down” the levels. If they are remaining calm, we can continue to “step up” the levels until we are entirely sharing the activity/enjoyment with our child.

25/08/2023

Quick tips for a Friday ✨ I hope you enjoy this beautiful sunshine!

18/08/2023

Get to the root of the behaviour!

Young kids often lack the skill set to handle such emotions. When kids are unsure how to cope big feelings, anger often follows.

Anxiety or fear can look like a well-behaved mild mannered kid (will often go unnoticed) or it can look like the defiant, misbehaving child (often getting diagnosis of ADHD, PDA or ASD)

Help kids learning coping strategies!

They need your help.

10/08/2023

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03/08/2023

Whether it is a conflict with their peer, a problem with their homework or an issue with a toy, kids of all ages face problems and challenges on a daily basis. Instead of giving up or getting frustrated when they come across a problem, kids with problem-solving skills manage their emotions, think creatively, and persist until they find a solution.

28/07/2023

General Attention Spans

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Reference: Ready Kids Occupational Therapy

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