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News & Events
UPCOMING:
DIR® Floortime™ Introductory Workshop for Parents
On the 26th of November we are excited to be hosting an introductory workshop for parents. The speakers will be Dana Baltutis , DIR® Floortime™ Certified Speech Pathologist (Adelaide) and Georgina Ahrens , DIR® Floortime™ Certified Occupational Therapist (Sydney).
At this workshop we will be presenting and discussing a thorough introduction to the DIR Floortime approach, including practical strategies to help parents facilitate their child's development - such as the ability to share attention, to engage in reciprocal and meaningful interactions, and to solve complex problems. Information will be supported by video footage of parents playing and communicating with their children.
For further information, or to express your interest, please contact us on 02 9418 9995, or by email at info@kidsworldtherapy.com.au.
The workshop will run from 9.30 am to 4.00 pm on the 26th of November, 2011, at a Sydney location to be determined. The cost will be $165 p.p. or $220 for 2 family members. Parents will be able to access their FaHCSIA funding to attend the workshop (please bring your Letter of Introduction, and there will be a $10 processing fee).
Social Camps
We have been running social camps in the school holiday's for the past year for two hours a day, 5 days a week. We have had fantastic feedback from both the children and parents with many spontaneous friendships developing. Our camps generally have between 6-8 children in them and also enable us to see who would be most suited to go into a regular peer group during the term.
The focus of our camps is providing the children with successful and supported opportunities to engage in peer interactions. Our goal is for the child to experience how to remain regulated and interactive while independently engaging with their peers.
The children are grouped according to their level of social/developmental levels and ages. This enables us to design each program specifically for the stage that the children are at and to provide the appropriate level of support to facilitate success in the social arena.
During the two hour period the children engage in a variety of indoor and outdoor activities, performing physical, art/craft and sensory activities. We also have morning and afternoon tea times scheduled into the sessions, which assists us in working on any feeding issues or issues around remaining in a group to eat with our peers.
Parent Workshops
Our parent workshops aim to provide parents with the theory and practical knowledge to assist them when engaging with their child. They are run at night once a week for two hours over eight weeks.
These workshops provide the parents with the tools to identify their child’s developmental level, their individual processing profile and how to further build the relationship with their child so that they can maximize every interaction with their child.
Keystone School 
Keystone will be Australia's first DIR®/Floortime based primary school for children diagnosed with autism and those having difficulties in relating and communicating. The school is not yet open for enrolment, as it is still in the developmental stages. We are planning to open early next year, and at present we are looking for people to assist with fund raising. For more information, please visit: www.keystoneschool.org.au.
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