Deborah Thomas Occupational Therapy Verified listing

Deborah is a paediatric occupational therapist, with over 30 years of experience working with children and their families.  She is based in the northern and western suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. She provides mobile occupational therapy services for children ages 0-8 years living across the Perth metropolitan area, as well as telehealth support for families living in rural and remote areas.

Deborah recognises the unique challenges that your child faces and that you face with your child's challenges. She understands and appreciates that you and your child may both be able to respond best when feeling comfortable and relaxed. Having occupational therapy sessions in your home, at the child care, school or another relevant community setting, can facilitate this.

If your child is having difficulties in the following developmental areas, then Deborah can support you:

• ​Sensory processing and regulation
• Social skills
• Emotional regulation
• Fine and gross motor skills, including motor planning and coordination skills, and hypermobility spectrum disorders
• Play skills
• Self-care and daily activities, including sleep, toileting, and mealtimes
• Visual perceptual and visual motor skills
• School readiness skills and school success
• Attention and concentration

Services are mobile, and can be at your home, your child's child care or school, or at any other relevant community setting, such as a music class or the local park!
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The length and frequency of the sessions will be discussed with you at the completion of the initial session, and will consider your child and your family, and the goals you would like to work on. They can be an hour, forty five minutes or thirty minutes; and they may be weekly, fortnightly or monthly. The sessions are flexible and can change with the needs of your child, and with your needs as you support your child.