About Us
Occupational Therapy can help your child improve their performance, skills and confidence in everything they do, from playing, socialising, dressing and toileting to completing tasks at school
What We Can Help With
We help children with a wide range of developmental challenges including:- We help children with a wide range of developmental challenges including:
- Fine motor skills (using the hands with precision)
- School skills, such as handwriting, typing
- Social skills for making friends, and following social rules
- Fussy eating
- Play skills
- Sensory Processing
- Movement, coordination and balance challenges
- Following routines and self organisation
- Self regulation and managing big emotions
- Emotional regulation and managing big emotions
- School readiness skills
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Attention Deficit Disorders
- Down Syndrome
- Learning Difficulties
- Developmental Delays
- Developmental Coordination Disorder / Dyspraxia
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Cerebal Palsy
- Genetic Conditions
Our Clinic
Sensory Kidz is a clinic in Sutherland equipped with a purpose built sensory room and therapy equipment, and the latest resources to provide fun and engaging therapy activities for children of all ages. Madalyn Paris is the senior Occupational therapist at Sensory Kidz. Madalyn graduated from the university of Sydney. She is a current Member of AHPRA, Occupational Therapy Australia and is an Accredited Occupational Therapist. She has over 23 years of experience working with families and children from 0-18 years within multi-disciplinary teams in the community, as well as private clinics. She has extensive experience working with a wide range of diagnoses, delays and developmental challenges, and considers her role of incorporating family centred practices and strategies as critical to the effectiveness of therapy services for the families she works with.
Madalyn has undertaken extensive specialty training and is highly experienced in implementation of specialised treatment strategies and protocols, including:
- Wilbarger Therapressure Program and principals
- MORE Integration of the Mouth and Respiration
- Therapeutic Listening
- SOS Feeding Therapy
- Trauma Informed practices
- Self regulation programs including The Alert Program, Zones of Regulation
- DIR Floortime Pricipals
