Paediatric Occupational Therapy

Stellar Kids OT is a paediatric occupational therapy service providing early intervention support to kids aged 0-7 in Ballarat, Victoria.We are a mobile service that provides an integrative, playful and strengths-based approach to supporting your child reach their goals.

Our Services

The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in chosen activities of everyday life to their full potential. We use occupations/ interests as both a therapeutic tool and a goal for therapy.Occupational therapy assessment and intervention sessions are specifically designed to meet the needs of each individual child and family. We work collaboratively with families, educators and your child’s professional team to support your child’s therapeutic needs.Below are some of the areas we can support with through assessment and intervention:

  • Understanding and supporting your child's sensory preferences

  • Social participation

  • Emotional regulation

  • Self-care skills (toileting, feeding, dressing, bathing, sleep)

  • Play skills

  • Gross motor skills

  • Fine motor skills

  • Information and/or referrals to services in the community

  • Education to empower families and caregivers

Edwina Luker (Lea)

Owner/ Occupational Therapist

Edwina completed a Bachelor of Health Sciences and Masters of Occupational Therapy at Latrobe University, Melbourne in 2015. Since then, she has worked with children of all ages in homes, schools and clinic settings.Edwina uses an integrative, developmental, play and strengths-based approach to support the children she works with.Edwina has completed additional training in the following areas:

  • Traffic Jam in My Brain

  • The Alert Program® for Self-Regulation

  • Therapeutic Listening®

  • DIR/ Floortime®

  • Understanding the Vestibular System

  • Early Start Denver Model

  • Camp Jabiru Practicum Program

  • Clinical Reasoning for Occupational Therapists: The SPIRIT [Sensory Processing/Integration, Reasoning Tool] of Peadiatric OT©

  • Sensory Processing and the Brain: Using Neuroscience to Support Clinical Reasoning

  • A Day with Dan Siegel: A New Frontiers of Interpersonal Neurobiology

  • Getting Kids Organised- Strategies to Develop Executive Functioning Skills at Home and School

  • Positive Behaviour Support Level 1 and 2

  • Bridges out of Poverty and Trauma Responsive Practice with Families

  • Australian Childhood Foundation- Anglicare CfC: Supporting Parents who Experience Mental Health Issues

  • SPARK Communication: Coaching Parents to use Hanen Strategies

  • ASD Fundamentals and Co-Occuring Conditions

  • Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition (ADOS-2)

Contact

If you have any questions regarding our services or availability, please get in touch.Unfortunately the waitlist for OT intervention is currently closed. Please check back at a later date to see if this waitlist has reopened .