Stepping Stones Therapy for Children offers a comprehensive assessment and treatment service for babies, toddlers and children. Depending on your child's specific needs, therapy may be delivered in our clinic, at your home, at preschool/school, and/or in groups. Treatment programs will be tailored to meet your child's individual needs. We also provide information/training sessions for parents and educators on a range of topics including sensory skills for the classroom, foundation skills for handwriting, and strategies for enhancing child development. We are authorised providers for NDIS, Medicare and most private health funds. Our Toronto clinic is located conveniently within the Toronto Private Hospital complex. You can find us on the second floor of the private suites, right next to the main hospital. There is a carpark just in front of our building that is available to our clients.

Hello Rainbow is a multi disciplinary service offering speech and occupational therapy in an early intervention environment for children. Hello Rainbow offers a mobile service, enabling therapy in your home. Most children are comfortable and receptive in their home environment. This often means that they’re in a great frame of mind to bond with our therapists and engage in meaningful play and communication. We are a neuro-affirming practice. This means that we strongly believe that all children view and communicate with the world around them differently. These differences are not deficits, or something that needs to be fixed. Your child is a unique and wonderful little person. Our passionate therapists work with your child’s strengths, interests and abilities to build their confidence and help them reach their goals. We believe that a holistic approach to early intervention brings the best outcomes. We work collaboratively with early childhood specialists, both in house and externally. Our therapists are experienced, dedicated and work under a therapy first framework.

Beam offers a range of psychology and therapeutic services and support including assessment, counselling, family therapy, guidance and advice for children, young people and family groups. Our services are tailored towards the ages of 8-25. We have extensive experience in supporting problems children and adolescents are facing including anxiety, depression, autism, intellectual and learning difficulties, peer pressure and bullying, stress, drug and alcohol misuse, trauma, aggression, social relationships, family conflict and challenging behaviours. We are also NDIS registered and provide services to NDIS participants with an intellectual or mental health disability or impairment. Our existence is built on an idea. A solution to a problem...mental health and wellbeing for children and young people. The solution was Beam - a service built on extensive knowledge in Psychology, Mental Health and wellbeing of children, youth and families. Our first practice opened in July 2016 servicing Newcastle and Lake Macquarie focusing on mental health difficulties such as anxiety, depression, autism and bullying. Our expert team of Psychologists and Practitioners are passionate, experienced, caring and determined to help children and young people live their best life. Our Psychology and mental health expertise lies in a range of difficulties your child, teenager or young adult may be experiencing, and we work together with families to reach the best possible outcome. Bulk billing options are available.

Happy Dots Cardiff is a privately owned Paediatric Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy clinic in Newcastle (Cardiff, and Medowie) servicing children of varying conditions aged between 2-18 years of age. We assist children with the following areas of skill development: Sensory Processing Skills, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Self Care Skills, Play Skills, Attention, Language Development & more. We have a team of dedicated, professional & experienced therapists who will work with you to ensure a brighter future for your family.

Providing a range of services, occupational therapist Kaylene Magnay has over 25 years of experience working with adults and children with development disabilities. Her passion is to empower independence.

We are Divergent Health and we specialise and champion Neurodiversity affirming allied health services. Our dedicated team offers a comprehensive range of services including Occupational Therapy, Art Therapy, Speech Therapy, while also providing individualised support from our skilled Allied Health Assistants. We are committed to providing tailored care for people of all ages, creeds and orientations. Our services are accessible throughout Australia via Telehealth, and we also offer in-person consultations in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, and Maitland areas.

EDUCARE was established in 1999 by Educational and Child Psychologist, Dr Anne-Marie Youlden. It has since developed into a leading multi-disciplinary practice designed to bring many related specialist medical, health and educational services into one location for the convenience of families in the Hunter Region. The EDUCARE team consists of a wide range of highly experienced medical and health specialists, who all work together to empower our clients and their families. Our specialists include paediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and teachers.

Newcastle hand therapy was established by David Benn in 2008 to offer specialised treatment for hand and upper limb pathology in a private clinic. We are an occupational therapist owned practice and have a good relationship with local GPs, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, orthopaedic surgeons and hand surgeons. Our goal is to provide the best treatment available for finger, hand, wrist and elbow injuries in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley.

We aim to maximise patients hand function by providing high quality assessment and rehabilitation following an injury or chronic hand and upper limb condition.

About Stepping Stones Is your child having difficulties with participating fully in their life? Are they less independent than you would like? Stepping Stones can help. We offer a wide range of occupational therapy services to assist you in helping your child to develop the skills and confidence they need to flourish. We see children from birth to 18 years and can offer a comprehensive assessment and individualised interventions to meet the needs of your child. We are available to see children in our clinics, their own homes, at school or in the community. Occupational Therapists (OT’s) are registered health professionals who help people overcome challenges in their everyday occupations. You might wonder what occupations your child has, and the answer to that is many! The primary occupation of childhood is play. Your child will spend many hours of the day engaged in different types of play activities, and during this time they are busy developing essential physical, sensory, social, emotional and cognitive (i.e., thinking) skills that lay the foundations for success in later life. Other childhood occupations include self-care tasks (e.g., feeding yourself, having a bath, washing your hair, getting dressed, doing up buttons and shoelaces etc.) and activities of productivity (e.g. kindy/school activities, handwriting, using scissors, doing chores etc.). Stepping Stones OT’s are trained to assess your child’s performance in these areas in order to determine the specific barriers to their success. Using this information we can then design a treatment program to meet your child’s individual needs. We then work with you in order to help your understanding and to give you practical tools and advice that you can use at home.

Rex has been an Occupational Therapist since 1994, being the second year to graduate from Occupational Therapy at the University of Newcastle. Rex is committed to the care and advocacy of his patients, many of whom have been known to him for over 20 years. He engages other treating professionals in the care of his patients whenever possible. His practice is based on the belief that independent living and meaningful occupation should be optimised to achieve and maintain the best possible quality of life for everyone.