Join us for our Term Groups
At Qualia, we love group therapy. It is fun, engaging and really effective for many reasons, including promoting meaningful connection between peers through shared experience, increased motivation to achieve goals together and being an opportunity for children to make friends and feel they belong to a group. See below the great range of groups we are running at the moment term. More information for each of these groups can be found below or by getting in touch with us at the clinic.
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Learn to Play
Preschool (3-5 years)
All kids love to play and they learn the most through play! Preschool age is a fundamental time to work towards developing play skills, both independently and with other peers. This group will facilitate an authentic enjoyment of play across a range of play types, from structured turn taking games to pretend/imaginary play.
This group aims to develop your child’s ability to:
- identify their own play interests
- increase and expand their play interests and play skills
- engage in turn-taking games with peers
- communicate and problem-solve conflicts with peers
- respond to winning and losing in play and games
- attend in a group environment
Term 3 – Tuesdays at 10am
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Get Ready for School
Pre-school aged children are invited to join us for some fun and targeted goal driven therapy in a weekly, small group session. Develop ability to follow instructions, pre-writing skills, gross motor skills, ability to sit at the table, join in group activities and social interaction.
This group aims to develop your child’s ability to:
- demonstrate a functional pencil grasp using a dominant hand
- demonstrate appropriate pencil control when tracing, drawing and colouring
- recognise and write letters from their name
- draw shapes and simple pictures
- recognise and group numbers
- cut shapes using correct scissor grasp
- follow a classroom routine
Term 3: Mondays at 1pm, Wednesdays at 1pm, Thursdays at 10am.
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Lego Club
This group uses Lego in a therapy setting to promote social interaction, turn-taking skills, sharing, and collaborative problem solving to support social engagement. Coached by Qualia’s OT Lego therapy team, club members can focus on the joint creative process in a fun and supported environment.
Tuesdays 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Secret Agent Society
For times and days please contact the clinic for further information.
The Secret Agent Society (SAS) Small Group Program prepares children for life’s social and emotional challenges in a fin and effective way. By capturing children’s attention through spy-themed gamified learning, skill generalisation at home and school, reward systems, and interactive clinician-led child and parent sessions with face-to-face and online options. SAS builds capacity in the following areas:
- Emotion recognition (in self & others)
- Emotion regulation (particulary anxiety and anger)
- Social problem solving
- Social skills (for friendship & teamwork).
Term 3: Mondays 4pm (online), Tuesdays 4pm (online), Thursdays 4pm (online).
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Tiny talkers and movers
This group is a play group run by an Occupational Therapist from Qualia in collaboration with a Speech Pathologist from Nash Speech Pathology, in a natural environment of a local day care centre (Papilio Early Learning Centre). The group focuses on developing language, speech and regulation in a play based setting. They use evidence-based programs, including Learn to Play Therapy by Karen Stagnitti and Rodney Edited, as well as The Hanen Program® (It Takes Two to Talk®) and SEA Bridge. These approaches support the development of your child’s skills through play-based learning.
Your child does not need to attend Papilio to attend this group.
Fridays 10am
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Zones of regulation
The Zones of Regulation is a trusted, research-based framework designed by an occupational therapist to teach children and young people how to categorise their complex feelings, energy, and alertness levels into four color-coded zones. Grounded in cognitive behavioral science, the social-emotional learning curriculum empowers students with a common language to identify their internal states and build a personalized toolkit of actionable coping strategies for long-term emotional control, resilience, and well-being.
Mondays 4pm
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Cool Kids: A Leading Anxiety Management Program
For times and days please contact the clinic for further information
Cool Kids is a structured program that teachers children and their parents how to better manage a child’s anxiety. The program is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), involves the participation of children and parents, and focuses on teaching practical skills. The program can be delivered online or face to face, individually or group sessions. Topics covered in the program include:
- Learning about anxiety
- Realistic thinking
- Facing fears
- Learning self-regulating strategies such as relaxation or problem solving
- Parenting an anxious child
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Contact us now to book your child in!
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