Perth Paediatrics have experienced psychiatrists, and psychologists who  understand the wide-reaching impact of a behavioural disorder, emotional problem or psychiatric disease, they will endeavour to give your child and family the tools you need to manage.
Services Include

Perth Paediatrics have experienced psychiatrists, and psychologists who  understand the wide-reaching impact of a behavioural disorder, emotional problem or psychiatric disease, they will endeavour to give your child and family the tools you need to manage.

  • Attention and concentration
  • Organising their time and resources/possessions
  • Memory
  • Difficulties with emotional regulation- eg expressing feelings in expected ways, becoming emotionally escalated often and difficult to calm down, struggling to identify or explain how they are feeling
  • Mealtimes- concerns with sensory based challenges (e.g. foods touching, not wanting to touch/interact with food, strong reactions to flavours and properties of food)
  • Fine motor skills- eg using scissors, craft tools, taking shoes/jackets on/off, using cutlery
  • Handwriting
  • Sequencing movements to complete a task (eg craft activity)
  • Toileting and self care difficulties
  • Difficulty playing with their peers successfully and independently
  • High school transition
  • Self care- toileting, showering, personal hygiene
  • Protective behaviours- safety, stranger danger, transport

Tash Rubie
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST