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What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapy is a client-centred approach that uses assessment and intervention to help people across the life span continue to do the things they need to and want to do. Occupational therapy for children involves supporting their play, self-care and student roles. When a child is having difficulty with one or more of these areas, an OT can support in various ways. A therapist will break these down into smaller areas and can assist children to develop their fine and gross motor skills, self-care skills such as toileting, showering and brushing their teeth as well as their social and play skills to assist them in developing relationships at school and in the community.

This can include working directly with your child to model new strategies to help them achieve their goals, provide parent coaching and training to support with routines at home, and collaborating with educators to support transferring these skills in a variety of settings.

Common areas that we can help with include:

Fine Motor and Gross Motor Skills

School Readiness

Social and Play Interactions

Sensory Processing

Self-Care

Emotional Regulation

Our Services

Individual Therapy

We offer ongoing occupational therapy services to suit the needs of the child and family. We work with children aged 0 to 10-years.
Services can be accessed through: NDIS, Medicare, or Privately.

School Readiness

We can offer assessments, therapy, and recommendations for children who may appear behind than their peers.

Assessments

We offer a range of assessments, this will be a part of ongoing therapy or if your child needs a "one-off" assessment. This could be to gain access to NDIS, or to assess development, skills, or investigate a concern.

Telehealth Services

If you require an occupational therapy assessment, please complete the inquiry form or send us an email. We are able to complete various assessments including Sensory Profile Assessments, Functional Capacity Assessment for NDIS reviews, fine motor assessments, and general occupational therapy assessments.

Cost of Services

Our fee schedule is consistent for all clients, including those accessing NDIS funding, private or medicare rebates.

Travel fees are charged at the NDIS rate of $193.99 pro rata. Cancellation fees do apply.

Face-to-Face Therapy

(1:1 therapy, assessments)

$193.99 per hour plus travel

Telehealth and Report Writing

$193.99 per hour

Mentoring

$193.99 per hour plus travel

FUNDING

Please note, you do not require funding to see us at Building Creative Children.

NDIS

We support Self-Managed and Plan Managed children at Building Creative Children. If you are unsure if you can access our services, please contact us for more information.

MEDICARE

We accept referrals from your GP to access Medicare rebated OT Services.
You can discuss this with your GP regarding eligibility and how many sessions this will cover you for.

PRIVATE HEALTH & PRIVATE FUNDED

We can provide services to you are private paying or if you have private health insurance. As we are a small business, you will have to claim this back on receipt directly with your insurer.