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Preparing for the holidays

In this blog, Occupational Therapy Lead Marie Rodatz looks at the strategies to support a great school holiday outing for your autistic child.

Resources

View our wide range of resources including fact sheets, and help understanding autism.

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Frangipani Family Day 2025

Frangipani Family Day is a free community event for young neurodiverse children and their families in WA.

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OTs and their tools

For Occupational Therapy Week, we asked our OTs to share their favourite resource and how they like to use it.

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Service agreements

We are currently working through several clinical audits to ensure that we are meeting our service delivery standards and governance requirements. As part of this, we have audited our Service Agreements to ensure that we have a signed agreement on file for all our clients. This agreement is an NDIS

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Frangipani Family Day 2023

CliniKids held Frangipani Family Day recently – an event organised to honour the wonderful contribution of its much loved and dearly missed colleague, the late Kate Sorensen.

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Celebrating our OTs

To celebrate World Occupational Therapy (OT) day, we asked our Occupational Therapists to describe what OT means to them.

Research

Parent experiences of their children’s diagnosis with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or both conditions

A comparison of parents’ experiences of getting a diagnosis for their child with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and both diagnoses can inform our understanding of common and unique themes across these neurodevelopmental conditions.

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Patterns of sensory modulation by age and sex in young people on the autism spectrum

Sensory modulation symptoms form a diagnostic criterion for autism spectrum disorder and are associated with significant daily functional limitations. Utilizing caregiver report on Short Sensory Profile-2 (SSP-2) for 919 autistic children (3–14.11 years), we examined the expression of sensory modulation symptoms by age and sex and investigated the existence of specific sensory modulation subtypes.

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Content validation of common measures of functioning for young children against the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and Code and Core Sets relevant to neurodevelopmental conditions

Young children who have developmental delay, autism, or other neurodevelopmental conditions can have difficulties doing things in different areas of their life. What they can and cannot do is called their level of functioning. There are lots of assessment measures that aim to assess functioning.