Occupational Therapy Supports
Your Best Self Allied Health
- Service type:
- Allied Health Support
- AHP type:
- Occupational therapy
- Support category:
- group child support
- educator upskilling
- family and parenting support
- Primary AEDC domain:
- emotional maturity
- Secondary AEDC domains:
- physical health and wellbeing
- social competence
- Delivery location:
- Adelaide Hills
- Southern Adelaide
- Eastern Adelaide
- Western Adelaide
- Northern Adelaide
- Delivery mode:
- in-person
- Program delivery:
- by supplier staff to groups of children, families or educators
- Tiered intervention:
- tier 2 targeted for specific cohorts or small groups
- Cost:
- moderate ($200-$2000 per person/item/hour)
Description
Your Best Self Allied Health's Preschool Program is a flexibly-designed service to provide in-classroom supports to children to improve their emotional, social, behavioural, sensory and motor skills. Our program takes a small-groups approach, delivering tailored and structured activities to several children in group settings to work on specific areas as agreed upon by the Preschool service. As a flexible service, we can target skill development across multiple areas as deemed fit by the preschools we service, and can provide services to multiple groups of children. Our small-groups approach allows preschools to engage our services in a minimally disruptive manner.
Our Preschool Program targets the following outcomes:
Expected outcomes of this support include:
Our Preschool Program targets the following outcomes:
- Development of children’s emotional and sensory regulation skills and strategies to assist with regulation.
- Development of children’s social skills through group activities, working to improve children’s cooperative play and social communication skills.
- Fine and gross motor skill development, with a focus on classroom-specific fine motor skills and gross motor skills essential for age-appropriate play and social participation.
Expected outcomes of this support include:
- Improved ability of children to understand and self-regulate their emotions.
- Improved ability of children to build and maintain relationships with others.
- Improved ability for children to engage in routines, play and learning.
- Improvement in classroom-specific fine motor skills & age-appropriate gross motor skills.
How this is delivered
This program is delivered via 1 - 2 hour sessions on a weekly basis, with multiple 20-30 minute small group sessions occurring within each session. Individual session and total program length is negotiable based on the preschool's needs, with a period of 4-8 weeks recommended. This program is delivered in-person.
Cost
This program is delivered at a rate of $200 per hour for in-person supports. Travel time to the location is charged at $200/hour, and is apportioned between all clients and programs completed on the same day to minimise costs.
Contact the provider
Contact name: Luke Mitchell (Director)
Contact email: hello@yourbestselfah.com.au
Contact phone: (08) 7083 3916
Contact website: https://yourbestselfah.com.au/ot/preschool-boost/
About the organisation
Your Best Self Allied Health, based in Adelaide, is a mobile Allied Health service providing Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology and Physiotherapy to children across metropolitan Adelaide. They provide neurodivergent-affirming, strengths-based therapy services to children of all abilities, with the goal of providing children with the skills needed to be their best self. They provide therapy services as well as preschool and school-based group supports to children.