Individual Therapist Profile: Katy Berezovsky

Special Achievements

  • Established services for children with Autism within Mainstream and Specialist Preschools
  • Have travelled extensively through Europe, Asia, Africa and South America
  • Worked in the United Kingdom 2006-2010

Graduated

  • University of Queensland, 2001

Work as an Occupational Therapist/ with children

  • Worked as an OT since 2002
  • Worked as an OT with children since 2003

Experience with children’s issues

  • Sensory Processing Difficulties
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Autism/ Aspergers syndrome
  • Developmental Delays
  • Attention Deficit Disorder
  • Motor coordination problems – gross and fine motor
  • Handwriting concerns
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Multiple physical disabilities
  • Visual impairments
  • Various syndromes

Ages worked with

  • 0-60 years, but mostly with 0-12 year olds.

Settings worked in

  • Home
  • Schools
  • Therapy clinics
  • Medical room

Courses completed

  • Sensory Integration: Theory and Intervention, by Sensory Integration Network of UK and Ireland
  • Assessing Sensory Integration in Children, University of Sydney
  • Assessment and Treatment of Infants with Sensory Integration Problems and Disorders of Regulation, by Megan Faure
  • Assessment and Treatment of Sensory Modulation Disorders in Children with
  • Different Developmental Disorders, by Sidney Chu
  • Sensory Processing and Self Regulation: Considerations for Best Practice and Sensitive Parenting, by Gillian Fowler
  • Advanced Clinical Reasoning: Integrating Sensory Integration Model with DIR/ Floor-time
  • Advanced Clinical Reasoning: Introduction to DIR/Floortime
  • Play Theory and Practice – Anita Bundy
  • Learn to Play – Karen Stagnetti
  • Children with DCD - College of OT UK
  • Bobath Approach to the Treatment and Management of Children with Cerebral Palsy - Bobath Centre UK
  • Communication Works, Seminar and Exhibition - UK
  • Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) Workshop
  • Australian Makaton Presenter Training

Work History

  • Autism Specialist  - London UK
  • The Crystal Centre - London UK
  • The Maple Children’s Centre - Kingston UK
  • The Children’s Centre - East Riding of Yorkshire UK
  • Hugh Ellis Paediatric Assessment Centre - Oxford UK
  • Disability Services Queensland - Pine Rivers Family and Early Childhood Service
  • Disability Services - Caboolture Family and Early Childhood Service

Areas of special Interest

  • Sensory Processing
  • Emotional development
  • Developing independence skills
  • Play – gross motor, fine motor and imaginative

 

All Kids Matters Occupational Therapists are enrolled in a formal mentoring and professional development process under Kids Matters OT, with other Kids Matters staff.