About

Down South Therapy Services provides a specialist mobile Occupational Therapy Service to infants, children, teenagers and adults in the areas spanning from Kwinana to Australind.

Down South Therapy Services provides individual, paired and group sessions for children with a range of diagnosed and undiagnosed difficulties, including but not limited to:

- Learning Difficulties
- Motor Skill Difficulties
- Behavioural Difficulties
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Cerebral Palsy
- Down Syndrome
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Hearing Impairment
- Vision Impairment
- Dyslexia
- Mental Health Difficulties
- Attention and Sensory Regulation Difficulties
- Developmental Coordination Disorder
- Specific Skill-Based Difficulties impacting on performance at school

Down South Therapy Services can assist individuals in the areas of but not limited to:

- Fine motor skills - coordination, muscle tone, drawing, colouring, cutting, writing
- Gross motor skills - coordination, muscle tone, planning, ball skills, balance
- Social skills
- Play skills
- Attention regulation
- Sensory regulation - assisting bodies to remain in a calm/alert state
- Mealtimes and feeding - range of food in diets, sensory preferences
- Sleep
- Toileting
- Independence
- Behaviour management - assisting in regulating anxieties, avoidance, anger, etc.
- Upper limb rehabilitation
- Equipment sourcing and provision
- Environmental modification
- School performance
- Problem solving
- Education provision to parents, siblings, families, teachers, teacher assistants, carers, other health professionals

Medicare (mental health care plan, enhanced primary care plan), FaHCSIA (Helping children with autism, Better Start) and Private Health Insurance Rebates available. (more)