At Happy Dots, we also provide group therapy for your children. Our group therapy programs run every school holidays and during the school term. These include school readiness programs, music and movement groups, motor skills groups, fussy eating groups, language groups and social skills groups.
Diggin’ Dots is the group for craft and plant lovers.
Come personalise a pot for your own plant to take home
and care for.
• Social skills
• Following instructions
• Mindfulness
• Fine motor skills
This group aims to introduce children to relaxation
strategies and movements in a fun and social way.
These movements may then be utilised by children and
their families throughout their day to day lives to assist
with achieving a calm, grounded and regulated state.
• Relaxation
• Self-Regulation
• Emotional Development
• Mindfulness
• Concentration
• Gross Motor Coordination
Crafty Kids is a social group that uses craft activities to
target a child’s fine motor skills including manual
dexterity and finger strength. By targeting these skills,
children can improve their independence in other
important areas, including pencil grip, using cutlery
and doing buttons.
• Finger strength
• Bilateral coordination
• Manual dexterity
• Social skills
Our lets get messy group is all about exploring and stimulating our senses through play. Designed for children ages 4-7 this group encourages sensory exploration while promoting social skills and creativity.
• Sensory exploration
• Social skills
• Play skills
• Imagination/creativity
• Attention span
Active Dots is a physical program addressing primarily
gross motor skills, in a fun and active environment.
Facilitated by an OT, this group is sure to address many
areas of development.
• Gross Motor Skills
• Self Confidence & Self esteem
• Physical fitness
• Social Skills
• Hand-eye coordination
• Following Instructions
• Attention & concentration
In Sensory Science Lab your child, will engage and
explore simple science experiments that are loads of
sensory fun and also teach basic scientific concepts.
• Tactile Skills
• Problem Solving
• Motor Planning
• Visual Perceptual
• Attention Span
This painting group allows your child to develop and
express their artistic and creative side whilst learning
basic painting techniques. A calming background
ambiance will also encourage your child to relax and
concentrate, whilst having fun!
• Artistic creativity
• Fine motor skills
• Attention and concentration
• Emotional Regulation
• Upper limb strength & shoulder stability
• Social interaction
This group aims to take our children’s love of video
games and combines it with opportunities to develop
skills that are important in everyday life.
• Social Skills
• Communication
• Fine Motor Skills
• Emotional Regulation
Game On for the older kids! This group aims to take our
children’s love of video games and combines it with
opportunities to develop skills that are important in
everyday life.
• Social Skills
• Communication
• Fine Motor Skills
• Emotional Regulation
Learn how to prepare simple meals at home by yourself
in this fun cooking class. You will learn basic preparation
skills and get to eat the food you’ve prepared!
• Executive function – reading and following instructions
• Meal preparation
• Kitchen safety
• Basic cutting skills
This group takes the fabulous excitement of the circus
and encourages everyone to have a go at completing
some tricky balancing acts, create hilarious animals,
work together to put on a show and lots more!
• Gross motor
• Bilateral coordination
• Balance
• Communication
• Fine motor
• Cutting
• Pincer grip
• Manual dexterity
Who loves Minecraft? It is a group program that children
can attend to create minecraft characters using Hama
beads. The group allows children to learn and work
alongside other children with the same shared interest.
• Fine motor skills
• Hand-eye coordination
• Social skills
• Bilateral coordination
• Spatial awareness
• Executive functioning
• Visual perceptual skills
• Persistence and resilience
Our STEM group provides children with an opportunity
to spark their creativity whilst immersing themselves in
the basic principals of science, technology, engineering
& mathematics. Children will be required to utilise their
fine motor skills, strategic planning and imagination in
an interactive group environment.
• Fine motor skills
• Following instructions
• Motor planning
• Problem solving
• Imagination and creativity
Our STEM group will be sure to impress!
Get excited for Rockin’ Dots! A musical & sensory
experience that addresses teamwork, fine motor skills,
rhythm and following instructions. Learn some basic
music principles and work together to perform a simple
tune by the end of the group. For ages 7+. Come enjoy
rocking out and making music!
• Attention & concentration
• Social skills
• Communication
• Turn Taking
• Self Regulation
Superheroes: Put on your masks and capes and come dressed as your favourite superhero to practice your skills!.
Week one will focus on your superhero strengths to fly through the sky, swing and jump over obstacles to build your gross motor skills.
Week two will develop your fine motor skills to create your own superhero mask and work on your hand strength and manipulation while building your teamwork skills! For children aged 5-8 yrs
• Fine motor skills
• Following instructions
• Motor planning
• Problem solving
• Imagination and creativity
This group aims to take our children's love of video games and combine it with opportunities to develop skills that are important in everyday life.
• Social skills
• Communication
• Fine motor skills
• Attention span
• Social skills
Step into a realm where imagination knows no bounds and friendship thrives, as we present to you the enchanting world of Pokemon Pals - a captivating social group designed especially for young adventurers and Pokemon enthusiasts!
• Gross motor activity
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Social skills
• Following instructions
A social environment where kids can share their mutual love for Pokemon.
Calling all little ocean explorers! Join us for an exciting adventure under the sea as we engage in a variety of fine motor and sensory activities designed to stimulate young minds and senses.
• Sensory Exploration
• Fine motor
• Social skills
• Imagination and creativity
• Attention span
Story Telling Superstars will support children to build story telling skills in a fun and engaging way. Children will be taught how to develop their own story and then will be given the opportunity to tell and act it out to the group.
• Social skills
• Following instructions
• Narrative retell and generation
• Vocabulary development
The Story telling superstars group is an engaging way to support your child's language skills using topics of interest.
Get ready to unleash your inner artist! From vibrant threads to sparkling beads, you'll have a blast creating one-of-a-kind bracelets. With endless colours and patterns, there's something for everyone. Crafting is even more fun when you're surrounded by friends!
• Social Skills
• Manual Dexterity
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Visual processing
• Following instructions
• Attention and concentration
Football club is a group for kids who love to run around and pass a footy. Focusing on fostering a love for sport while prompting teamwork, sportsmanship, and fundamental skill development.
• Social Interaction
• Gross motor
• Motor Co-ordination
• Communication
• Following instructions
Lego Legends is one of our most popular groups with a huge focus on social and fine motor skills in a fun, play based environment.
• Problem Solving
• Social Skills such as sharing & turn taking
• Fine Motor Skills
• Following Instructions
• Motor Planning
Prepare to have a roaringly good time! For kids that live and breathe all things Jurassic, these dinosaur themed activities will assist in developing fine and gross motor skills whilst also learning fun facts about our long-lost dinosaur friends. Whether its digging for fossils, creating dinosaur craft or pretending to be a T-Rex these activities will make gaining new skills fun!
• Gross Motor Skills
• Fine motor dexterity and coordination
• Social skills
• Communication
Will you be the next MasterChef?
Join us in working together to decorate and paint some cookies. You will get to take your creations home to enjoy and eat.
• Executive functioning
• Fine motor
• Kitchen safety
• Sharing and turn taking
• Social skills
Let's get together to create our favourite Disney characters out of Hama Beads. What will you create? A princess, A superhero, Mickey Mouse, Toy Story or something else. This group allows children to learn and work alongside other children with the same interest.
• Fine motor
• Hand eye & Bilateral coordination
• Social skills
• Spatial awareness
• Executive functioning
• Visual perceptual skills
On your mark, get set, go!
Are you ready to welcome the Olympics in style. Lets make our own Olympic torches to take home, in a fun social group before we have our own torch relay to kick start the Olympic celebrations.
• Fine motor
• Social skills
• Gross motor
• Teamwork
• Coordination
Sounds of the Jungle will cover a series of early literacy skills (phonological awareness skills) which are essential skills to have before your child begins to read and write when they begin kindergarten. Engaging jungle themed activities will be utilised to ensure that content is presented in a fun and interactive way.
• Rhyme
• Syllable awareness
• Breaking words into sounds (segmenting)
• Blending sounds together to make words (blending)
is an energetic basketball-themed group designed for kids to develop essential gross motor skills, improve social interactions, and learn the value of teamwork. Through fun drills and engaging activities, children will enhance their coordination, build friendships, and experience the joy of working together to achieve common goals.
• Gross Motor
• Hand -eye co-ordination
• Social Skills
• Following Instructions
This group provides a creative space where kids can develop fine and gross motor skills, strengthen social connections, and engage in collaborative projects. Through hands-on balloon twisting activities, children will enhance their dexterity, foster teamwork, and enjoy the shared satisfaction of creating imaginative balloon designs together
• Sensory Exploration
• Fine motor
• Social skills
•Imagination and creativity
•Attention span
Offers a dynamic environment where kids can boost their gross motor skills, enhance social interactions, and master the art of teamwork. Through exciting drills and team-based activities, children will improve their coordination, build lasting friendships, and learn the importance of collaborating to achieve success on the field.
•Social Interaction
•Gross motor
• Motor Co-ordination
• Communication
•Following instructions
An initial assessment is booked for 90 minutes where a series of specifically chosen standardised and non-standardised tests are carried out on your child.
Our meet & greet sessions are designed for those families who may not be sure on whether or not OT will be best suited to them.
We feel that it is important to conduct review assessments for children who have participated in therapy on an ongoing basis.
Following an assessment, individual therapy sessions of 45-minutes each may be recommended for your child.
Screenings can be conducted at various schools and reschools upon request. An Occupational Therapist will come to you on site, and screen each child.
School-based therapy is beneficial for the child as it allows for a direct relationship between the therapist and the teacher. (School visits are subject to availability.)
Parent & Teacher workshops can be tailored to meet your needs and can be held on site or at our Happy Dots clinics.
We stock a wide variety of OT based resources & products that we feel your child would benefit from a result of attending our therapy sessions. We have a selection of resources available in each of our clinics.
We are able to offer home visits on a regular basis, or as a one off consultancy based visit to help set up strategies for your home environment. Home visits are subject to availability & location.
Telehealth options are available to families who live out of area or can not get to the clinic for a face-to-face appointment.
We are excited to provide community outreach therapy to rural areas. Please enquire if this is something you are interested in.
Unlock the power of communication with our Speech Therapy services. Our dedicated team of certified speech-language pathologists is here to support individuals of all ages in developing effective communication skills.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Happy Dots acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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1 Jacaranda Ave,
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