Inside Kindergarten classrooms all around Australia, kids are busy using and practising their Fine Motor Skills. They write their names on the top of worksheets many times a day. Their scissors and gluesticks get a good work out in almost every subject and during Art,...
Lots of kids sit on their bottom with their legs splayed on either side of them. This is often called ‘W sitting’ and while you might think that your flexible son or daughter is very clever, their sitting position is actually not very good for them at all, as Kids...
Many Australian children struggle with dyspraxia, a condition that disrupts the messages that travel from a child’s brain to the muscles of their body. Dyspraxia (also called apraxia) is a neurologically based developmental disability that is typically present...
Does your child find it hard to stay calm? These practical ideas from the Occupational Therapists at Kids First Children’s Services in Sydney’s northern beaches offer easy suggestions for home, preschool and school. There are many strategies that parents...
Occupational Therapists from Kids First Children’s Services in Sydney’s northern beaches explain how OT helps children with ADHD. In order to explain how Occupational Therapy helps children with ADHD, we need to define two things – Occupational Therapy and...
Children living with Autism come in all shapes and sizes and there is no one size that fits all, As the name suggests, there is a range or ‘spectrum’ of characteristics that kids with Autism have, and OTs who specialise in supporting kids who are ‘on the...
