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Pre-School Groups

Sensory Smart OT Port Macquarie based high level paediatric occupational therapy--

FUN with Food - Preschoolers

A preschool group that focuses on the skills of turn-taking, teamwork, sequencing and socialising - while learning life skills and tasting a variety of foods.

Duration

30 minutes sessions 'block booked' per term, run weekly

Goals

  • Social skills
  • Turn taking
  • Team work
  • Life skills
  • Food variety
  • Follow instructions
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Active Play - Preschoolers

Focuses on the development of gross motor coordination and the integration of primitive reflexes during sequenced age appropriate play tasks.

Duration

1 hours sessions 'block booked' per term, run weekly or fortnightly

Goals

  • Gross motor Integration of primitive reflexes
  • Bilateral motor patterns
  • Midline crossing
  • Sequencing
  • Skill development
  • Social play
  • Turn taking/ waiting
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Preschool - Learn to Play

A play group for preschoolers that teaches them how to play together with other children their age.  Inspired by the work of Karen Sagnitti (OT)

Duration

1 hour sessions 'Block booked'' per term, run weekly or fortnightly

Goals

  • Socialisation
  • Awareness of self vs awareness of others
  • Joint attention & participation
  • From play along side to play with another child

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Pre-Kindy Play group

A group that prepares Pre-Kindy kids with preacademic skills they will need for starting school. The group encourages positive interaction with peers in both structured and unstructured play.

Duration

1 hour sessions 'block booked' per term, run weekly or fortnightly

Goals

  • Preparation for Kindy
  • Separating from parent successfully
  • Transitioning between tasks
  • Positive Social interaction with peers
  • Emotional & sensory regulation
  • Pre- Academic foundations
  • Precutting and prewriting skills

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Toilet Time - Parent group

Enabling parents to develop an effective “toileting plan” that leads towards independent toileting .

Duration

3 x 1.5 hour sessions - 'block booked'

Goals

  • Provide information on toilet training in early childhood
  • Strategies to assist toilet training
  • Facilitate preparation of a toilet training plan for your child
  • Monitor progress as needed

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Social Skills School Holiday Intensive - Preschool

A Preschool social skill focussed group with the objective of increasing awareness of emotions through playing successfully with others.

Duration

1 hour 'block booked' sessions per day, 5 days in a row during school holidays

Goals

  • Improve social awareness
  • eye contact
  • turn taking and sharing for the development and enjoyment of reciprocal play 

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Transition into Kindy Group Intensive

A play based preschool group that develops skills for school readiness. It works on transitioning successfully and provides teachers and parents with a personal guide to each child what "works" for each child in a classroom environment.

Duration

January School Holidays

2 hours per day 'block booking' - 

5 days in a row

Goals

  • Preparation for transitioning into Kindy 
  • Separating from parent successfully
  • Transitioning between tasks
  • Positive Social interaction with peers
  • Emotional & sensory regulation
  • Pre- Academic foundations
  • Pre-cutting and pre-writing skills

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Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a constant thread through all that we do here at Sensory Smart OT.

SEL includes curriculums derived from:

  • Kimochis - Soft Toys with feelings inside
  • The Alert Program - Makes self-regulation easy and helps you to stay alert, attentive and focussed
  • The Zones of Regulation - A concept to foster self-regulation and emotional control
  • Secret Agent Society - Solving the mystery of social encounters: Helping children to feel happier, calmer and braver
  • Social Thinking - Teaching Social Competencies

Please contact us to assess the suitability of each of the groups for your particular needs.

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