Occupational therapy for children and early learning centres
Kidera may be a great fit for you if:
Your child is aged 2-13 or you are an early learning centre looking for training for your staff
Your child or the children you support may be neurodivergent, including autistic and/or with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, have developmental delays, and/or a trauma history.
You’re looking for support with emotional regulation, sensory processing, feeding, social development, daily routines, and participation in home, school, and community life, and you’re ready to be actively involved in the therapy process. You’re able to attend sessions or engage in regular parent consults, and you’re open to implementing strategies at home to support your child’s progress.
Therapy with Kidera is a partnership. Parents are part of the therapy team, and your involvement is a core component of progress. Together, we build skills, confidence, and connection in the environments where your child learns and grows.
Kidera’s Collaborative Family Centred Model
Children make the most progress when the adults around them feel confident, supported, and informed. That’s why our model is built around close collaboration with parents and caregivers.
This means:
• Parents are actively involved in every stage of therapy.
• Every session includes parent contact - either by attending the session, joining part of it, receiving a handover, or participating in a parent‑only consult.
• Parent‑only sessions occur at key points and at regular intervals to support understanding, strategy development, and carryover at home.
• Child sessions are purposeful, used for assessment, modelling strategies, and practising skills together.
• Carryover at home is essential, and we support you with clear, achievable strategies.
• School and childcare visits are used to assess environments, collaborate with educators, and set up initial strategies.
This model ensures therapy is consistent, meaningful, and aligned across home, school, and community settings.
Areas Of Support
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We offer comprehensive assessments to explore your child’s strengths, challenges, and support needs. These assessments help guide NDIS-funded supports and other intervention plans, ensuring your child receives appropriate and effective services to enhance their daily participation and well-being.
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Big feelings can be overwhelming, but children don’t have to navigate them alone. Kidera helps children and their support network, including parents, caregivers, and educators, develop coping strategies for managing emotions. Using sensory-based regulation techniques, co-regulation strategies, and play-based interventions, we empower children to build emotional awareness and self-regulation skills.
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Strong social connections are essential for confidence, resilience, and relationship-building. We support positive interactions with peers, siblings, and adults, helping children develop communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and emotional intelligence in everyday social settings. Our play-based approach supports engagement, empathy, and collaboration, ensuring children feel secure and supported in social environments.
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Mealtimes should be a positive experience, but sensory sensitivities and feeding challenges can make it difficult. As a therapist trained in the Sequential-Oral-Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding, Brittany provides individualized strategies to help children with sensory-based feeding difficulties, restricted diets, and mealtime anxieties. Through sensory exploration, and family-friendly techniques, we work towards building confidence and expanding dietary variety in a stress-free way.
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Children learn through doing, but sometimes they need extra support to engage in daily activities, school tasks, and structured routines. Our interventions focus on enhancing participation in play, learning, and everyday responsibilities, helping children develop focus, independence, and problem-solving abilities.
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From toileting and sleep routines to grooming and dressing, self-care is a critical part of growing independence. We equip children with age-appropriate strategies to develop confidence in everyday tasks, using adaptations and individualized support plans to make self-care more manageable and empowering.
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We believe that caregivers play a vital role in supporting development, which is why we offer parent coaching sessions designed to provide practical strategies for co-regulation, play-based learning, sensory processing, and emotional support. Our goal is to empower families with tools, confidence, and knowledge to help children thrive in daily life.
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We offer visits to early learning centres, schools, and childcare settings to:
• Assess the environment
• Observe participation
• Collaborate with educators
• Model strategies
• Support consistent implementation
These visits are purposeful and time‑limited, designed to set up effective supports rather than provide ongoing weekly therapy.
The Therapy Pathway
What Ongoing Therapy Looks Like
Ongoing therapy is structured, intentional, and tailored to your child’s needs. It typically includes a mix of:
child sessions (with parents present for all or part)
parent‑only consults
communication between sessions
school or childcare visits when appropriate
Parent involvement is present throughout therapy. Depending on your child’s needs:
some families have parent consults every 1–3 months
others (such as feeding therapy) may have parent consults weekly or fortnightly
some child sessions require a paired parent consult to support carryover
Ongoing weekly or fortnightly therapy is available when parents are actively involved and able to support strategies at home.
A clear, predictable process helps everyone feel confident and informed.
1. Enquiry
You share some initial information, and we provide clarity on fit, capacity, and whether my model aligns with your needs.
2. Intake Form
If proceeding (or joining the waitlist), you complete an intake form that includes expectation‑setting and helps us understand your child and family context.
3. Parent‑Only Initial Appointment
We meet to explore your goals, priorities, and concerns. This session sets the foundation for our work together.
4. Assessment Sessions
These may involve your child, you, or both. We observe strengths, challenges, sensory needs, emotional patterns, and participation across environments.
5. Therapy Planning Appointment (Parent‑Only)
We review assessment findings, co‑create goals, and outline the therapy plan, including the mix of child sessions, parent consults, and review cycles.
6. Therapy Block
A structured period of therapy that includes child sessions, parent consults, and collaboration with educators as needed.
7. Review
We evaluate progress, update goals, and decide on next steps.
8. Continue or Discharge
Families may continue into another therapy block, pause to consolidate skills, or discharge with a clear plan.
Tailored Training Packages for Early Learning Centres
We offer tailored training packages for early learning centres, focusing on social-emotional development and strategies for supporting children with additional needs or developmental delays. Our training is designed to equip your staff with the tools and knowledge to create an inclusive and supportive environment. We will work closely with you to design a personalised training package that addresses your centre’s specific needs, empowering educators with practical skills to support children’s growth and well-being.
Locations - We Travel To You
- Attadale
- Beaconsfield
- Beeliar
- Bibra Lake
- Bicton
- Cockburn Central
- Coolbellup
- Coogee
- Fremantle
- Hamilton Hill
- Hammond Park
- Kwinana
- Melville
- Munster
- O'Connor
- Palmyra
- Rockingham
- Samson
- Spearwood
- Success
- White Gum Valley
- Winthrop
- Yangebup