Therapy Junction

27/06/2025

Just in time for the school holidays!

18/06/2025

This looks like an amazing opportunity for some of the young friends we know and love at Therapy Junction! Contact details for enquiries are included directly on the post. 🐡🦀🐙🦑🐟🦈🦭🪸🐠🪼🦞🐚

Calling all curious little explorers! 🐙

Is your Foundation Phase child fascinated by nature, loves getting creative, and enjoys hands-on fun?

Ocean Funatics is the perfect adventure! 🌊

From animals that camouflage to sea creatures that build their own homes – it’s an underwater world of wonder waiting to be discovered!

🧠 Learning meets fun through exciting activities and awesome arts & crafts.
📚 Dive in today – let the ocean adventure begin!

Check out our link to find out more: https://bit.ly/403mIMp

09/05/2025

A bit different from our usual posts but so important in terms of building good executive functioning lifeskills!

17/04/2025

Take the pressure off and make this your family’s best Easter yet 💟✝️

02/04/2025

World Autism Awareness Day 🙌

09/12/2024

It’s the most wonderful (but also dysregulating) time of the year! We love this post for the reminder to keep it real in the midst of all the festivities.

21/11/2024

🎉 Therapy Junction’s Holiday Clubs return to the Southern Suburbs! 🎉

Join occupational therapists, Jade & Kelly for an action-packed holiday programme at Therapy Junction in Claremont. From 9 to 20 December, we’ll keep kids aged 3-10 years active, entertained, and off screens!

🌟 Therapy Junction provides a safe, fun-filled environment where kids can explore, play, and learn—all under the supervision of our fully qualified and registered Occupational Therapists.

📩 Don’t wait—secure your child’s spot today and give them a holiday experience they’ll never forget!

08/10/2024

Beautiful resource on restraint collapse. Thank you Perth Children's Occupational Therapy

21/04/2024

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Go to the crying child. The wrong coloured pencil, the sand in their shoe, the book that they didn’t want to read - it’s all a big deal to them.

Think about the life experiences they’ve had. They haven’t experienced what we have and therefore have no frame of reference for how big their problem objectively is (or from an adult’s point of view).

Children under 7 are also still in the egocentric stage of development, where everything is all about them.

Plus, their prefrontal cortex isn’t anywhere near as developed as an adult’s, meaning they don’t have the ability to regulate themselves, or are only just beginning to learn this.

Dismissing their feelings (e.g. “you get what you get and you don’t get upset”…) or leaving them to deal with their emotions on their own can stay with them. If it happens consistently without a caregiver acknowledging or repairing afterwards, it can be stored in their brain and body along with other similar experiences (in their implicit memory), and contribute to their core beliefs (schemas), perceptions, and assumptions about the world as they grow up.

Meeting a child’s feelings with shame, ridicule or punishment also puts their nervous system under stress and their brain in a more reactive state, meaning they will remain in a heightened state and be more likely to become upset or triggered again.

There is just too much research and evidence behind this for it to be ignored.⠀
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If a child is upset, go to them.

And as always - parents, teachers, anyone caring for children - we don’t have to get it right 100% of the time. We just have to be good enough. We’re all still learning and doing the best we can with the resources we have.

07/04/2024

One of my most favourite professional accounts 🙌
Absolutely love these 🤩
Thank you NeuroWild

09/02/2024

Another winner by the lovely Anande PlayMore 💥

10/01/2024

Love these practical back to school tips by OT Anande from PlayMore! 💚