We welcome the talented Carlyn Cooper on the podcast today. Carlyn is a registered Occupational Therapist and Director of In Sync Kids OT. Caryn has extensive experience working in the UK and Brisbane. She has consulted in a range of settings including state, private and special needs schools and has found that treatment in collaboration with teachers, parents and the learning support team, is more successful. Her experience has ranged from severe disabilities such as Autistic Spectrum Disorder to specific learning difficulties such as Dyslexia and Dyspraxia.  

Additionally she is passionate about educating teachers, parents and educators and has completed many workshops in Europe, UK and Brisbane to provide a better understanding of the impact of Sensory Processing in the classroom and at home.  Carlyn also continues to advocate the need for providing services to children, in mainstream schools, with attention and mild learning difficulties and for the early intervention for children who were born prematurely.  

Her specialism is treatment of Sensory Processing through Sensory Integration treatment and Neurodevelopmental Disorders which can have a significant impact on a child’s ability to successfully function at home and at school. 

In this episode we chat about: 

What made Carlyn decide to become an OT 

What using a sensory integration approach looks like 

The special assessment tools Carlyn uses at In Sync OT 

What Carlyn’s approach to therapy look like when working with children and families whose children have issues with sensory integration 

How Caryn works with parents implementing strategies at home 

What a therapy session at In Sync OT looks like and what equipment they use in the clinic 

Where in Australia you can get sensory integration equipment for your clinic 

What In Sync OT’s intensive programs look like 

Carlyn’s thoughts around why we are seeing an increase in more children with disabilities and sensory integration 

What Carlyn thinks we should be doing about the addressing these increasing sensory processing in Australia 

What Caryln would like to see across early childhood therapy programs in the future    

Links:

In Sync Kids OT Website 

In Sync Kids OT Facebook 

In Sync Kids OT Instagram 

In Sync Kids LinkedIn 

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