Navigate Occupational Therapy

Get to know Navigate Occupational Therapy

From Navigate Occupational Therapy's website.

• Our approach

  Occupational therapy at Navigate supports children to participate to their full potential in the activities they need and want to do as part of everyday life, encompassing self-care tasks, preschool and school participation, and play. Sessions are individually tailored to each child's specific requirements and strengths, with therapy designed to be fun and engaging while providing practical solutions to daily challenges. The practice is flexible and mobile, offering assessment and therapy in the environment most appropriate to your child's needs, whether at home, child care, preschool or school. Collaboration with you, educators and other professionals is central to the approach, recognizing that you know your child best and that their physical and social environments matter greatly.

• Working with families

  Navigate understands that you know your child's strengths, interests and needs best and collaborates closely with you to establish therapy goals and intervention plans. The practice recognises the significance of a child's physical and social environments, and as such works collaboratively with relevant caregivers, educators and funding bodies as required. By offering flexible and mobile services that can occur in your home, child care, preschool or school, the practice ensures that therapy is integrated into your child's everyday life and routines.

• Meet the team

  Navigate Occupational Therapy is led by Renee, who graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) with Honours in 1999, bringing over 20 years of occupational therapy experience. She worked with adults in hospital settings for 11 years before beginning in paediatrics in 2011, and has experience supporting babies and children with developmental follow-up after premature birth through Flinders Medical Centre. Renee also worked as a lecturer and clinical educator at Flinders University between 2017 and 2021, where she supported occupational therapy students on clinical placements and helped establish a student-led paediatric occupational therapy clinic.

• Your first visit

  The first appointment involves assessment of your child's developmental and functional abilities. Navigate Occupational Therapy offers both formal (standardised) and informal assessment, with accompanying written reports provided as required. During this process, the therapist works collaboratively with you to understand your child's strengths, interests and needs in order to establish therapy goals and an individualised intervention plan tailored to your child's specific requirements.