Specialist Advisory Services

Specialist Advisory

Services

Our consultants can provide your whanāu with support and guidance on a range of challenges.

The team of Kidz Therapy Specialists includes experts on ADHD, ASD and navigating the New Zealand Education system.

Education Consultant

Karen Blackall, our Education Consultant, is able to help parents successfully navigate the New Zealand education system. Karen offers advice, guidance, practical support and strategies on:

Working with students, parents and teachers to collaboratively devise interventions to meet students individual needs
Advising parents on how to best manage their child’s behaviour
Assisting parents to navigate the education system, advocating for children and parents within the school setting
Working with students and teachers to develop and encourage social skills including friendship and relationship skills
Providing support and guidance for teachers
Interpreting Cognitive and Educational Assessment Reports for parents and following up on recommendations with the school
Working alongside students on strategies to assist with executive functioning (impulse control, emotional control, flexible thinking working memory, self-monitoring, planning and prioritising, task initiation and organisation)

If required, Karen can complete a needs analysis (interviewing parents, teachers and students, observing students and complete any relevant assessments) to analyse issues and challenges faced.

The needs analysis results in a Behaviour Support Plan for parents and schools. This report includes practical suggestions and strategies; outlining pathways forward for your child.

ADHD Consultant

Our ADHD Consultant, Tracey Rountree is a veteran of the ADHD community and one of the most informed minds on the topic.

When working with families affected by ADHD, Tracey is able to draw on her lived experience. She has both raised a child with ADHD and been diagnosed as an adult.

Tracey works with whanau to provide guidance and support on:

Formulating a personalised plan to address areas of difficulty your child may be facing
Routines and rules to help streamline family life
Evidence based strategies for living with ADHD
Education around characteristics of ADHD
Family dynamics

As each family’s situation is unique, Tracey will work with you to create a plan that works for your whole whanau.

Tracey also regularly shares her expertise on ADHD through workshops and seminars at the Kidz Therapy Centre.

ASD Consultant

Our autism spectrum disorder (ASD) specialist at Kidz Therapy has a personal perspective of living with ASD every day.

As the spectrum varies to include obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), sensory issues, learning differences, dyspraxia and anxiety etc, it can be a generational disorder and lifetime disorder.

Our ASD Consultant can help your whanau with practical advice and assistance in:

Navigation of school issues
Advocacy at high school and university levels
Registration with Government support agencies
Employment support agencies

As your family's situation is unique, our Consultant will work with you to create a plan that works for your whole whanau.

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

Meet our Specialists

Our consultants and specialists are experts in their fields. They regularly undergo professional development and training to ensure they stay on top of new research and developments.

MEET THE TEAM