Abilities Therapy

Abilities Therapy

Abilities Therapy is an OT service established and managed by occupational therapist, Sylvana Spina. Sylvana has over 24 years experience in working with children, adolescents and families. Our team privately runs a Children's Occupational Therapy service based in the inner northern suburbs of Brisbane.

We work closely with parents, schools or centres to target goals which allows for the best support and outcomes for kids, families and all involved. We aim to support families, schools and other professionals in developing a child or adolescent's functional life skills using fun, focused activities and therapies. This may include anything from handwriting, social skills, sensory processing needs (such as the Alert or Engine program) to organisational skills, and anything in between!

We assist individuals to enhance their performance and achieve life occupations and roles. For our kids, this means play, self-care, school-work, learning, leisure and social skills. We target skill and role development whilst supporting the child's learning and sensory needs. We help kids to understand how to maintain an optimum alert state in the best learning environment for them to help them attend, learn, participate and complete life activities at home, school and in the community.

We work with all children that may present with:

* developmental delay
* Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
* sensory processing difficulties/needs and sensory-
emotional regulation needs
* attention deficits/difficulties (eg: ADD/ADHD)
* learning disabilities such as in writing and reading
* visual processing difficulties
* handwriting support
* executive functioning and organisation deficits
* motor planning and coordination needs
* anxiety or
* any child needing support with life skills.

We are NDIS, FaHCSIA (Helping Children with Autism Package) and Better Start approved and can .

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