Kidz First Child Development Service

Public Service, Paediatrics, Community

Today

Open today 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.

Description

We are a community based service team, providing therapy and social work to assist children with special needs and their family/whānau achieve their full potential in their daily lives. We work with children in schools, kindergartens, home, community, clinics and recreation centres.

Children under our service have diagnoses including but not limited to cerebral palsy, global developmental delay, muscular dystrophy, chromosomal abnormalies, spina bifida, children with plagiocephaly who also have a disability, premature or low birth weight infants who are 'at risk'.

We are an interdisciplinary, allied health team which includes:

Occupational Therapy
Physiotherapy
Speech Language Therapy
Social Work
Visiting Neurodevelopment Therapy

Referral Expectations

A child and their family can be referred to the service through doctors and allied health professionals such as:

General Practitioners
Neonatal Services and Paediatric Medical and Surgical Services
Community Health Services e.g. Plunket
Other Health Funding Authority contracted Health and Disability Services
Education Funded Services e.g. Special Education, CCS Disability Action
Children Youth and Family Services
Needs Assessment & Service Coordinator Agencies e.g. Taikura Trust

Hours

Open today 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.

Mon – Fri	8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Procedures / Treatments

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapists focus on children’s performance of everyday self care, fine motor and play activities with an aim to enhance their development and independence. … More
Physiotherapy

Physiotherapists work with families or whanau to develop physical functioning and preserve health in children through activity and participation in the community.… More
Social Work

Social workers assess the social, psychological and emotional situations of individuals to identify their needs as well as those of their family. They also offer supportive counselling by linking families to practical services available within their community. … More
Neurodevelopmental Therapy

Visiting Neurodevelopmental Therapists (VNT) are either a registered Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist. They focus on infants and toddlers performance of everyday self care, gross motor, fine motor and play activities with an aim to enhance their development and independence.… More
Speech Language Therapy

Speech-Language Therapists (SLT) work with children with communication and/or feeding difficulties. … More
Kidz First Child Development Team

Community paediatric service for children with disabilities.
A community based service team, providing therapy and social work to assist children with disabilities (including Down syndrome, global developmental delay and cleft lip and/or palate) and their family/whanau achieve their full potential in their daily lives.… More