Occupational Therapy and Speech Language Pathology for Kids

Skills for Kids provides a team approach to occupational therapy and speech language pathology services. Our commitment is to increasing the successful participation of children who experience difficulties with learning. We do this through:

Listening and relating
We listen to teachers, parents and children and seek to understand their needs.

Enabling
We promote inclusion and aim to enable children to engage in their various roles (e.g. student, friend, sibling, son, daughter) with skill, enjoyment, satisfaction, and self-respect.

Providing professional excellence
We believe providing professional excellence through our assessment and intervention flows from understanding
– current evidence based research
– contexts in which a child lives, plays and works
– activities and routines in which children engage
– capacity of a child to perform required skills and abilities

Partnering with parents and teachers
We actively encourage teachers and parents to be our partners in every aspect of our work.

Dr Susan Lowe, Director of Skills for Kids and Principal Occupational Therapist,
provides additional services including:

• Conferences / workshops / seminars
• Mentoring to occupational therapists
• Knowledge sharing with schools, increasing teacher capacity to meet the inclusive learning needs of students with executive functioning difficulties.