Group Therapy Services
Prep Readiness Program
We’ll touch on areas such as:
✔️making new friends
✔️how to sit and listen in the classroom
✔️independent play during lunch breaks
✔️behaviours appropriate for school
✔️asking for help when needed
✔️how to transition from activities
✔️ classroom expectations
✔️ explore sensory supports if required
✔️ cutting, colouring and pasting
✔️ writing (through pre-writing shapes, letter awareness and pencil grasp),
✔️and much more!
Although this will be conducted in a group setting, activities are tailored to each child needs. If intervention is required to support your child further, our Early Intervention Educator can liaise with classroom teachers and other specialists working with your child to ensure the whole picture of the child’s needs are understood.
Who should attend?
If your child is enrolled to start Prep in 2025, is currently in kindergarten and/or able to sit at a desk for short periods.
This group is designed and run by our Early Intervention Educator.
Minimum numbers of participants required for group to run.
Foundational Skills Group
The group is designed around purposeful play and age appropriate activities and is designed to work with children who may appear to be struggling in one or more of the foundational skills areas. Designed for those in Prep and grade 1.
Minimum numbers of participants required for group to run.
Sounds Write Speech Group
Children will learn the following concepts to support their literacy skills:
- Letters are symbols that represent sounds.
- A sound may be spelled by 1,2,3 or 4 letters
- The same sound can be spelled in more than one way
- Many spellings can represent one sound.
Children will also learn the following skills that are essential for reading and writing:
- Blending – the ability to push sounds together to build words (e.g. /b/ /a/ /t/ = ‘bat.’)
- Segmenting – the ability to pull apart the individual sounds in words
- Phoneme manipulation – the ability to insert sounds and delete sounds out of words.
Sounds write is a multisensory approach to learning to read and write. Children are encouraged to say, write, read and physically manipulate the sounds throughout each lesson, further building their engagement and retention in the learning process.
Minimum numbers of participants required for group to run.
How can our clinic help?
Coming soon
Financial support for accessing speech pathology and occupational therapy services can be provided by:
- The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) – We offer NDIS funded services under the Early childhood and Therapeutic Supports – Capacity Building category. We can accept clients who are plan managed or self-managed.
- Private health insurance – All of our professionals have Medicare provider numbers, which means you may be able claim for eligible services, depending on your level of cover.
- Medicare Chronic Disease Management Plans (CDMP) – You can claim a rebate on up to five allied health sessions per year with a referral from your GP. Please note that the rebate does not cover the full cost of sessions.
