Paediatric Occupational Therapy near Lilyfield
Supporting your child to grow their everyday skills and self-belief.
Guiding your child's progress
No matter what stage your child is at in their development journey, we are here to support you. Whether they have a developmental delay, disability, are neurodivergent, or need extra support, our fun occupational therapy services help your child move toward independence.
At Inner West Paediatrics, we have experience supporting children with a wide range of abilities and disabilities. These include autism, global developmental delay, cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities, genetic differences, learning difficulties, ADHD, social-emotional difficulties, trauma, and behavioural differences.
What our occupational therapy team can offer
We support your child to build the key skills needed to take part in meaningful daily activities, such as play, attending school, and self-care like feeding, dressing, and toileting.
This includes fine and gross motor skills, building strategies that support attention and concentration, developing play and social interaction skills, and creating regulation strategies for emotional, sensory and behavioural needs. We offer several ways for your family to access care, including:
In-person OT
Mobile occupational therapy
Online OT
Our approach to skills development
Fine and gross motor skills
Our therapists consider the underlying motor skills at play, such as strength and endurance, stability, balance, coordination, and motor planning. From there, we develop strategies to support your child to take part joyfully in the activities they enjoy.
Self-care tasks and activities of daily living
We break down daily living tasks such as dressing, toileting, eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene to help your child perform them with increased independence.
Play and social interaction
We take the time to get to know your child’s interests, their sensory preferences and aversions, their interaction skills and their play skill level. We also look at the skills and understanding of family and other important people in your child’s life. From there, we create fun play ideas and strategies to support your child to build meaningful social connections and interactions through everyday routines, while growing the capacity, skills and confidence of the important people around them to join in meaningful play.
Regulation (Emotional, Sensory, Attention)
Our occupational therapists support your child to develop strategies for emotional regulation, sensory regulation, and attention, so they may take part in important activities as comfortably and independently as they can. We also work with you and other important people in your child’s life to build strategies and skills, and to adapt tasks and environments that help your child thrive.
Functional Capacity Assessments
An FCA provides clear, evidence-based recommendations designed to support NDIS applications or reviews, advocate for the right supports, and guide therapy planning and collaboration with schools and other professionals. We spend time alongside you and your child to collect all the information required and develop a thorough report about your child’s abilities. We may also recommend therapies, accommodations, assistive technology, and suggested next steps.
Community and School Participation
Our occupational therapists can support you and your child to recognise the school and community activities they value, and to develop strategies that encourage their participation.
Let's find the right support for your child.
Our paediatric occupational therapists partner with families to offer personalised support shaped around your child’s individual strengths and needs.
How research shapes our OT
- DIR Floortime principles
- SCERTS®
- Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP Approach)
- Learn to Play approach
- Occupational Performance Coaching
- Handwriting Without Tears programs
- Toileting interventions
- Sleep interventions
- Zones of Regulation
- Alert Program
- Autism Level UP
- Regulation and sensory supports
- Upper limb programs including CIMT & bimanual skill programs
- Cognitive interventions
Questions we're often asked about occupational therapy
What is occupational therapy?
Occupational therapy works to help people gain independence and enhance their quality of life by addressing physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges.
What can an occupational therapist support my child with?
Occupational therapy can address a broad range of areas, such as fine motor skills, coordination, and self-care tasks, along with social skills, emotional regulation, and attention.
When should I consider occupational therapy for my child?
If everyday tasks like getting dressed, holding a pencil, managing emotions, or engaging with peers are proving difficult for your child, occupational therapy support may be worth considering. If you’re uncertain, get in touch, and our team will help you understand what they may benefit from.
How do your occupational therapists approach intervention?
Our occupational therapists begin by working with you and your child to understand your priorities and establish meaningful goals. From there, intervention focuses on activities that build the skills your child needs, while adapting tasks, environments or routines where appropriate to support participation in everyday life.
What speech and occupational therapy services are available?
- Hanen Programs (It Takes Two to Talk, More Than Words, Target Word, Talkability, Learning Language and Loving it)
- DIR Floortime Principles
- Learn to Play approach
- Key Word Sign
- Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy (PACT)
- SOS Feeding Approach
- Responsive Feeding Approach
- The Lidcombe Program
- Sounds~Write
- Meaningful Speech for Gestalt Language Processors
- Occupational Performance Coaching
- High and Low Tech AAC assessment, trial and intervention
- Handwriting Without Tears programs
- Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP Approach)
- Toileting interventions
- Zones of Regulation
- Alert Program
- Regulation and sensory supports
- Upper limb programs including CIMT & bimanual skill programs
- Cognitive interventions
Do you give parents and carers resources for home?
Yes. Our therapists provide parents and carers with practical resources and strategies to support their child’s development between sessions, because meaningful progress happens in everyday life, not in the clinic.
What funding options are available for OT support?
What areas do you service?
We service areas around:
And more!
Support your child beyond OT
What makes Inner West Paediatrics different
Matched care
Through a thorough triage process, we carefully pair a therapist with your child and family based on the details you share, so the right support is in place from day one.
A family-centred approach
Our team focuses on building parent and carer confidence and skills, empowering them to support their child's long-term independence.
Proudly local
Inner West Paediatrics is independently owned and run locally, providing community-first care that puts your family first.
Giving Lilyfield kids a strong start through OT
We believe all children should have the tools to grow and learn with confidence, and that’s why we offer tailored OT support in Lilyfield. If daily activities are proving a challenge for your child, reach out to our dedicated team today.