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Occupational Therapy Services in the Northern Beaches
At Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, we provide individualised paediatric occupational therapy for children, supporting privately funded families and NDIS participants. Using evidence-based practice, our experienced occupational therapists partner with children and their families to build independence, confidence and sustainable progress in daily living skills. Therapy is delivered within each child’s goal-environment (at home, school or in the community) so strategies are practical, meaningful and naturally integrated into everyday life.
How We Support You
Occupational Therapy services include:
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Occupational therapy assessment
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School-based therapy
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Home-based therapy
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School and home consults
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Small group therapy programs
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School holiday booster and intensive sessions
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Parent coaching
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Preschool parent workshops
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Educator training and consultation
Services can be provided under
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National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
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Medicare Chronic Disease Management Plan
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Allied Health Service Under Medicare Scheme
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Private Health Insurance
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Self-funded
What We Do
The Purpose of Occupational Therapy intervention
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To meet goals set by the child and other relevant individuals involved in the child’s life including parents, caregivers, teachers, and other members of their Multidisciplinary Team (including Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists, Paediatricians, Psychologists, Chiropractors and more).
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Increase independence at home, school and in their community
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Improve function in key areas
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Improve physical, social, behavioural aspects
Some of the intervention we provide includes:
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Home visits
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School visits
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Community sessions
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Handwriting focused therapy
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Fine motor focused therapy
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Gross motor focused therapy
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Confidence focused therapy
Reports
Reports are written by Occupational Therapists for many reasons including for the purpose of NDIS plan reviews, OT progress report and review, provide a clear description of recommendations for treatment, document a specific challenge or condition and the child's requirements across many environments so that everyone is aware on any adaptations to be made to support this child in accessing and engaging in their occupational activities, tasks and environments.
Our Process
An Occupational Therapy process that puts you first enables us to provide the most effective treatment and work collaboratively with you to produce clearly defined goals and interventions.
Assessments
Assessments are a vital stage of our process in order to gather important information and have a baseline of your child's performance. Assessments provided may be both standardised and semi-standardised or non-standardised meaning either formal or non-formal. Some reasons we may conduct assessments include:
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To naturally observe the child in their natural environments whether home, preschool or school
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To identify any challenges or difficulties in a child's occupational performance
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To prioritise challenges and difficulties in goals
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To observe social relationships and understand how these impact occupational activity engagement
In our Initial Occupational Therapy session we will review a parent/carer questionnaire and get to know your child which will allow us to create a therapy plan in moving forward. Some typical childhood activities include handwriting, dressing, tying shoe laces, fine and gross motor play movements and more. We may even be looking at their general developmental milestones and ensuring they are reaching these goals within reason.
Intervention
The therapeutic intervention stage of the OT process is one of the most crucial stages within our OT process. Our intervention sessions together is where you will see the most improvements made. We develop an OT treatment plan based on our initial assessment and goal planning session together with the aim of achieving the goals made to enhanced the child’s ability to function in their everyday life.
Therapy is hidden through fun! Through fun we see improvements. Our sessions together will be: person-centred - working together as you are the centre of our therapy holistic approach - we look at all areas of occupations and environments and focusing on all can overall improve the targeted goal Motivating therapy - focus and motivation are the keys to beneficial to getting the most out of our sessions together.
We believe it is important to work on your goals in their real environment to ensure the best transferable outcomes. Our sessions are available where appropriate either 1:1 or in a group, at home, in the community, at school.
Refer Your Child For Occupational Therapy
Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy offers a range of therapy options for children of all ages and have sessions available in your child's preschool or school, home or in the community where appropriate.
Register your interest now through sending us an email or giving us a call to receive an information pack and find out more on whether we can support you with our service.
Want to be apart of our Enhanced Life OT Team?
We are constantly seeking exceptional individuals who are eager to join our Enhanced Life Occupational Therapy team. We take pride in our mission to empower children to unlock their full potential every day, and we'd like to extend the same opportunity to you.
