Our amazing team of Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists are the heart of the exceptional service that we deliver. Delivering care across six Metro Adelaide sites, our team make a difference in children’s lives each and every day through providing clinic, community, home and in education setting intervention and support.
Our clinicians are led by highly experienced clinicians who support, mentor and supervise their teams to ensure clinical excellence. Regular Professional Development and quality control measures form part of all clinicians expectations. Our clinical leaders believe in making sure our team is not just suitably qualified but is well trained, resourced and highly organised. This allows our clinicians to deliver the best clinical service in the most efficient and effective manner possible. Our clinicians join the therapy team in a specific employment stream (eg Career Change, Return to Work, Graduate) that delivers tailored training and supervision to ensure that all clients receive the best care possible.
Our playful team of Occupational Therapists are trained to deliver quality services to help child overcome challenges in:
Our team of practitioners are trained to apply the following specific intervention methods:
Our team of fun loving speech therapists are trained to deliver ‘best fit’ services to help child overcome challenges in:
Our team of practitioners are trained to apply the following specific intervention methods:
Occupational Therapist and Executive Director
As a mother of 2 with more than 30+ years clinical experience as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist, Joanna worked in the United States paediatric therapy space for 4 years before returning to Australia to establish Kid Sense Child Development in 1998. Joanna founded Kid Sense with a simple vision: to help children to ‘be the best they can be’. Experience in medical, educational (child care, preschool and school) and private practice settings have served Joanna well in managing a clinical team that deliver quality care to not just the children but also the parents and educators supporting the child. More recently, expanding our supportive offerings to emerging (and returning) therapists has been her focus.
Joanna’s particular interest is in exploring the blurred boundaries between where ‘therapy’ meets ‘education’ for children of all ages. Her greatest passion to see that children in (developmental) need receive the intervention they require to unlock their most positive future. Joanna served on the Occupational Therapy Registration Board for almost 2 years and on the SPELD (Specific Learning Difficulties Association of SA) Council for 18 months. She was named as a Finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Telstra South Australian Women’s Business Awards, and supported Kid Sense to win the 2017 and 2018 Telstra South Australian Business (category) Awards.
WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRADITIONAL CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND IN WHICH WE OPERATE AND PAY OUR RESPECTS TO ELDERS PAST, PRESENT, AND EMERGING. OUR FAMILY IS FOUNDED ON HOSPITALITY, THE BELIEF THAT EVERYONE IS WELCOME! DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND EQUITY ARE CELEBRATED, REPRESENTED, AND SUPPORTED IN OUR PEOPLE, OUR CUSTOMERS, AND OUR COMMUNITIES.
