Laurienne MacKinnon
Occupational Therapy

Laurienne MacKinnon

Laurienne graduated as an Occupational Therapist from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1992. Taking her first job in the paediatric department of a busy government hospital outside Pretoria, she developed her passion for working with vulnerable children. Since then, she has continued to improve upon her skills in order to guide and support families with little people facing challenges, to flourish in their world.

She is an Ayres Sensory Integration ® Certified therapist and is a certified user of the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test. She has a special interest in the challenges faced by children with sensory processing challenges. More recently, she has trained with The Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) and is an Advanced DIR Floortime Provider. Her love for the DIR Floortime approach has opened the door to working with families facing the many challenges of Autism.

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Occupational
Therapy

Occupational therapy is a client-centered health profession concerned with enabling people of all ages to participate meaningfully in the activities of everyday life. The Occupational Therapist works with her client, who may have physical or cognitive challenges, to support his or her ability to engage in the occupation he or she wishes to pursue.

Ayres Sensory
Integration

Sensory integration is the process by which a person receives, sorts, and processes information originating from their body and from their environment, through their senses, in order to produce purposeful, adaptive behaviours, in response to the demands of that environment.

DIR Floortime
provider

Floortime is a therapeutic intervention that uses the power of relationship and respectful, joyful human connection to promote engagement, communication, positive behaviour and independent thinking; in order to optimally stimulate an individual’s developmental growth

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