Paper Scissors Play
Alfords Point NSW 2234
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About Paper Scissors Play
Paper, Scissors, Play is a Sydney-based Paediatric Occupational Therapy service offering assessment and therapy for children aged 2-12 years. They provide a 20-week program delivered weekly or fortnightly with mobile therapy services across the Sutherland Shire and St George regions. Their approach is family-centred, evidence-based, and uses creative play-based sessions to support children and families to achieve their goals.
What's offered
Home or school visits
Services provided
Paper Scissors Play lists
- Home Visits
- Individualised therapy programs in your home environment to address your child and family's specific needs including challenging behaviours, relationships with siblings, toileting and feeding issues.
- Preschool and School Consultations
- Equipment prescription, academic modifications, behavioural strategies, fine motor and social skills groups, and support at IFSP and IEP meetings.
- Parent Coaching Sessions
- Additional individualised parent training covering toileting strategies, sensory needs, sleep strategies, feeding routines, and behavioural strategies.
- Visual Resources
- Wide range of visual supports for toileting, feeding, emotional regulation, behavioural strategies, routines, and social stories.
- Teletherapy Services
- Safe and effective therapy and support delivered remotely, with NDIS coverage available.
- Home Therapy Programs
- Individualised programs with simple instructions and visuals using everyday household items to develop fine motor, handwriting, scissor, and play skills.
- Training and In-Services
- Wide range of training for health professionals, schools and preschools covering sensory challenges, fine motor development, autism, and behavioural strategies.
Get to know Paper Scissors Play
From Paper Scissors Play's website.
Our approach
Paper Scissors Play uses a family-centred, evidence-based approach that works with your child's strengths and interests. Sessions are creative and play-based, designed to be practical and realistic for families. The therapy focuses on systematic teaching of everyday skills like dressing and toileting, alongside sensory integration support and positive behaviour strategies. Training is provided to your child's wider team—such as teachers—to help embed skills across their different environments and support families in achieving their therapy goals.
Working with families
Family involvement is central to the approach, with parent coaching sessions offered as additional flexible training on topics including toileting strategies, sensory needs, sleep, feeding routines and behaviour management. The therapist works with an empathic and family-centred framework, providing practical and realistic therapy strategies that families can use at home. Home therapy programs include simple instructions and visuals using everyday household items to help develop skills outside therapy sessions, and the service also provides visual resources to support learning at home and school.
Meet the team
Ashleigh Marsden is the Clinical Director and a qualified Occupational Therapist with a BAppSc (OT - Hons) completed in 2012. She has spent the past nine years specialising in paediatric occupational therapy, with particular expertise in autism spectrum disorder. Ashleigh has worked both in Australia and internationally, including two years providing outreach services in Canada's North West Territories. She holds AHPRA registration as a Certified Practising Occupational Therapist and member of Occupational Therapy Australia, and has completed extensive professional training in areas including sensory integration, feeding, behaviour strategies and self-regulation.
Locations & areas served
Alfords Point
Alfords Point NSW 2234
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