Target Audience: Occupational Therapists and Speech Therapists
When understood and supported through a neurodiversity-affirming lens, play becomes a gateway to connection, communication, and emotional wellbeing for neurodivergent children.
Upcoming Events
Angliss Conference Centre, Building A, Level 5, 555, La Trobe St, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Australia
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists
Children today are growing up in an increasingly complex world. Academic pressure, social expectations, digital exposure, family stressors and global uncertainty can present children with challenges, setbacks, failures and difficult/disappointing situations. This workshop uses an occupational performance approach to outline the various ways occupational therapists can assist children and families to promote and support children’s resilience
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Continence Advisors, Child Health Nurses and School Health Nurses
Although this workshop is a stand-alone module, participants would benefit from having attended a Learning to Conquer the Wees & Poos (Basics and Beyond) workshop prior to registering for this workshop.
Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals
This workshop will help you to elevate your role as a supervisor so that you can incorporate impactful coaching techniques and strategies into supervisory sessions.
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists
Play is an important measure of children’s development, as it encompasses emotional, social, cognitive and language aspects. It develops in layers of complexity over time, influencing all aspects of child development. This workshop is provided in two modules:
Assessment Module - the assessment module will focus on clinician’s being able to observe a child’s play; and understand and interpret this information within the child’s family, social and cultural systems.
Intervention Module - this module will provide participants with a clinical reasoning framework for the inclusion of play in therapy sessions; as well as skills/strategies to design and implement intervention programs that will develop children’s pretend play skills.
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The Basics - Session 1
July 21, 2026
10:30 am - 12:00 pm -
The Basics - Session 2
July 28, 2026
10:30 am - 12:00 pm -
The Basics - Session 3
August 4, 2026
10:30 am - 12:00 pm -
Beyond The Basics - Session 1
August 11, 2026
10:30 am - 12:00 pm -
Beyond The Basics - Session 2
August 18, 2026
10:30 am - 12:00 pm -
Beyond The Basics - Session 3
August 25, 2026
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Continence Advisors, Child Health Nurses and School Health Nurses
This workshop will provide participants with an overview of the clinical management of urinary incontinence, bedwetting and chronic constipation/soiling (encopresis) in children aged 3 – 15 years.
UQ Brisbane City Campus - 308 Queen St, Brisbane City, Qld, 4000
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists
This practical workshop will assist Occupational Therapists use an occupational performance framework to understand the strengths and challenges which children experience as they participate in daily occupations which require the efficient and effective processing of visual sensory information
Victoria Park Function Centre, Herston Rd, Herston, Qld, 4006, Australia
Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals
The CO-OP Approach can be used with adults and children (over 4 years of age) who struggle with everyday tasks. It has been shown to be successful for clients with a variety of developmental or neurological conditions who experience difficulties with learning or re-learning motor based skills.
Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals with prior coaching experience
This intermediate-level workshop explores how allied health professionals can utilise evidence-based coaching frameworks, and enhanced communication skills to authentically connect with clients and tailor interactions to support sustainable, client-driven change.
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists
This evidenced-based workshop will enhance understanding and skills related to assessing, diagnosing and designing effective strength-based interventions for Developmental Coordination Disorder
(DCD).