Connected Children
About Connected Children
Connected Children is a Brisbane-based Psychosocial Occupational Therapist practice that provides practical training and support for parents, educators, and child care professionals. They focus on helping children with behavioural and emotional needs by teaching actionable strategies that address the 'why' behind behaviour, emphasizing that people close to the child know them best and can harness their existing expertise.
Services provided
Connected Children lists
- Professional Training
- High quality training sessions for educators, directors and leaders in child care settings to support children with behavioural and emotional needs and address social-emotional development.
- Parent Support
- Articles, strategies, and resources to help parents understand and support their children's behavioural and emotional needs.
- Workshops, Resources and Courses
- Available to support families in understanding and managing children's behaviours and emotional regulation.
Get to know Connected Children
From Connected Children's website.
Our approach
Connected Children uses a child-focused, strength-based approach that helps carers understand the 'why' behind children's behaviour. Sessions are practical and actionable, designed to help parents and educators build on their existing expertise and skills. The provider emphasises that the people closest to the child know them best, and works collaboratively to translate theory into real-world strategies. The philosophy centres on helping carers think differently so they can act differently, with support tailored to individual needs rather than a one-size-fits-all model. Joy, playfulness, kindness and gratitude are woven through all interactions to support genuine wellbeing.
Working with families
Connected Children actively involves parents and carers as central partners in all work. The provider commits to listening to and honouring what parents value, respecting their understanding of their child, and supporting them to access their own inner wisdom rather than relying solely on expert advice. Communication includes sharing knowledge as a way to empower families, with resources, articles and training made available to help parents harness their own expertise. The approach recognises that parents know their children best and are nearly always the most committed to their wellbeing, even when they feel stressed or overwhelmed.
Meet the team
Connected Children is led by Sarah Broderick, an Occupational Therapist with over 20 years of experience who graduated from the University of Queensland in 1999 and established the practice in 2015. She holds a Psychosocial OT qualification and has completed extensive professional development in attachment, resilience, sensory processing, sensory integration, sensory attachment intervention, floor time, play-based interventions and family-based interventions. Sarah is recognised within the professional community for identifying meaningful client priorities and navigating systems around children including families, schools and government agencies. She prioritises accountability to children and families, maintaining a child-focused lens with ongoing commitment to contemporary, effective practice.
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