services
How We Work with Your Child
We know that there’s no one-size-fits all approach to working with children. That’s why we use a strength-based approach that includes your child’s interests and embraces their diversity to build upon their areas of need.
Northern Kids Therapy Service currently offers the following services:
Speech Pathology
Occupational
Therapy
Psychology
Music Therapy
Art Therapy
Key Working
Therapy Assistance
Group Therapy
Areas of Service
Our therapy services and programs are designed to meet the needs of children in the areas of:
- Autism
- Developmental delay
- Communication
- Expressive and receptive language
- Articulation (speech clarity)
- Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC)
- Literacy
- Fine and gross motor skills
- Sensory regulation
- Emotional regulation
- Self-care
- Executive-functioning
- Anxiety and Depression
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Behaviour support
- Self-expression
- Parent-child attachment
- Stress, grief and trauma support
- Play
Assessments
Our therapists use a combination of informal and formal standardised assessment tools to analyse and measure your child’s communication, language, speech, cognitive, motor skills and/or sensory processing abilities.
The results of your child’s assessment(s) are communicated in a written report and are discussed with you in a feedback session.
Assessments can be used to:
- Highlight your child’s areas of strength and need;
- Understand your child’s skills comparatively with same-aged peers;
- Form part of a multi-disciplinary Autism Diagnosis;
- Explore and/or form a diagnosis of Intellectual Disability, ADHD, Specific Learning Disability (e.g.: dyslexia) and giftedness.
- Report progress (for example, in an NDIS Review Report); and
- Determine eligibility for other funding pools and/or inclusion support (such as Program for Students with Disabilities).