Individual Therapist Profile: Marga Grey (Accredited Occupational Therapist)

Family background

  • 3 grown children and a baby granddaughter

Graduated          

  • 1977. B. Occupational Therapy, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
  • 2007. M.Sc. Occupational Therapy, University of Wilwatersrand, South Africa.

Special Achievements:

  • Started a Franchise in South Africa for day care facilities in South Africa to write and deliver training programs for the appropriate stimulation of babies at day care facilities.
  • Wrote a book called Sensible Stimulation (Metz Press, Cape Town, 2009) that discusses development and stimulation of the young child (0 – 3 years). This was published May 2009. 

Work as an Occupational Therapist/ with children

  • Worked as an OT for over 31 years with children.

Experience with children’s issues

  • Learning disabilities
  • Developmental delays
  • Sensory processing disorders
  • Autism
  • Asperger’s syndrome
  • Some work with physical disabilities, including muscular dystrophy, hemiplegia and paraplegia.

Ages that have worked with

  • Mainly with children 4 to 12 years old
  • Babies, Teenagers and a few adults

Settings that worked in

  • Private practice in South Africa for 22 years
  • Running mother and baby groups to teach parents how to stimulate their babies effectively
  • Montrose Access, Brisbane
  • University clinical educator
  • Kids Matters OT private practice in Brisbane

Courses completed

  • Multiple courses on Sensory integration testing and treatment
  • Therapeutic Listening
  • DIR/ Floortime training in September 2009.

Workshops

  • Study methods
  • Evaluating movement and posture disorganization
  • Upper body control
  • Hand function
  • Managing of a private practice
  • Home programs
  • Baby therapy

Work History

  • Letaba school for the disabled, South Africa
  • Private practice (owner) for 22 years in total in Letsitele, South Africa
  • A few years in a private practice in Tzaneen, South Africa
  • Served on the board of the Institute of OT’s in private practice
  • Researched the needs of the young child from 0-3 in day care and developed a franchise of day care centers for which I wrote the training manuals, did the training and wrote the programs used in the centers for stimulating the babies and children effectively, South Africa.
  • Wrote the book ‘Sensible Stimulation’ for parents on the stimulation of the young child, which was released May 2009..

Areas of special Interest

  • Sensory processing
  • Visual perception
  • Facilitating emotional maturity and cognitive skills.
  • The stimulation of the baby and toddler to prevent developmental delays and\or early intervention of areas of concern
  • The application of therapeutic activities in the daily life of the child and the child’s school and home programs,
  • Autism/ Asperger’s syndrome

ALL KIDS MATTERS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ARE ENROLLED IN A FORMAL MENTORING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS UNDER KIDS MATTERS OT, WITH OTHER KIDS MATTERS STAFF.