Practical, play based support
to build confidence and capability

Building the foundations for learning and life through play, sensory integration, motor skill development, and emotional understanding, regulation and coping skills.

Our Occupational Therapists help children build the skills they need for everyday life, what we call their occupations. For young children, this means playing, learning, moving, and taking part in daily routines like eating, dressing, and toileting.

Using a neuroaffirming, play-based approach, we work with your child’s unique strengths and interests.

We support children to develop:

• Fine and gross motor skills
• Sensory integration
• Emotional regulation
• Self-care and independence
• Play and social participation
• Ability to follow routines and transition through daily activities
• Attention and focus

We also partner with you through coaching sessions on topics like toileting, mealtimes, and bedtime routines, so that you can confidently support your child in everyday life.

Supporting functional communication, including speech, AAC, feeding, and social connection.

Our Speech Pathologists support children to find their voice – whether that’s through spoken words, gestures, pictures, or augmentative and alternative communication technology. We believe all communication is valid, and we meet your child where they are.

We assess your child’s unique communication profile and develop individualised plans to support:
• Early interaction and engagement
• Understanding and using language
• Speech sounds and fluency
• Social communication
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
• Feeding and swallowing

With a neuroaffirming lens and a focus on play, we help children build meaningful connections and communicate with confidence.

Understanding behaviour as communication. Person-centred plans that build skills and quality of life.

All behaviour is communication. Our Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) team works to understand the reason behind challenging behaviours, then builds a person-centred plan to teach new skills and improve quality of life.

We focus on proactive strategies to support regulation and communication. Our approach includes:
• Understanding the function of behaviour
• Modifying environments to reduce triggers
• Teaching alternative, preferred behaviours
• Building emotional regulation skills
• Empowering families and educators with practical strategies

The goal is to help your child feel safe, understood, and supported to thrive across home, school, and community settings.

Our specialised program for autistic children, focusing on communication, sensory regulation, and meaningful participation.

The Autism Connect Early (ACE) Programme is Ashton’s Place specialist offering for autistic children. Designed to support communication, sensory regulation, and meaningful participation, ACE is delivered in dedicated locations across Queensland and Victoria.

Children are supported to build foundational skills through:
• Relationship and play-based, child-led interactions
• Ensuring sensory support needs are met
• Communication supports tailored to each child
• Meaningful participation in early education settings

The ACE Programme is available at:
• Queensland: Currumbin Valley, Gaythorne, Holmview, Marsden, Nerang
• Victoria: Tarneit

Attune. Connect. Empower. (ACE) is our collaborative support framework for children with diverse developmental, learning, communication, and participation needs.

Delivered by our transdisciplinary therapy team in partnership with families, educators, and other professionals, ACE provides evidence-informed supports that are tailored to each child's strengths, goals, and everyday environments.

ACE can be delivered in early education settings, our therapy studios, or other community environments, ensuring strategies are practical, consistent, and meaningful across the places where children learn and grow.

We focus on:
• Early identification of developmental and learning support needs
• Therapeutic, transdisciplinary support
• Building communication, regulation, participation, and independence
• Individualised strategies embedded into everyday routines and activities
• Collaboration with families, educators, and other members of the child's support team
• Creating inclusive environments that promote confidence, engagement, and meaningful participation

By attuning to each child's unique profile, fostering strong relationships, and empowering participation, ACE helps children develop the skills they need to thrive across home, education, and community settings.

Child-centred, play based learning for developing play, regulation, sensory-motor skills, and kindergarten readiness.

Our small, therapist and educator guided Kindergarten and School Readiness Groups support young children to develop the sensory, motor, play, social, and emotional regulation skills they need to confidently participate in kindergarten and the early school years.

Using a child-led approach within a gentle, structured framework, we help children:
• Navigate their sensory environments
• Develop their sensory and motor skills through play
• Strengthen emotional regulation skills
• Build communication
• Develop confidence in social participation
• Prepare for kindergarten and school routines

Activities are play-based and tailored to each child’s interests, creating a safe, supportive environment where learning feels natural and joyful.

A welcoming space for parents and children to explore, play, and connect together.

Our Developmental Playgroup is a welcoming space where young children and their parents can explore play, connection, and learning together.

Designed for children preparing for kindergarten, this small, therapist-informed group focuses on:
• Sensory play
• Music and movement
• Social participation and turn-taking
• Building early communication and interaction skills
• Strengthening parent-child connection

Parents participate alongside their child, with our therapists gently modelling strategies to support engagement, communication, and play. It’s a place where children feel accepted, and families find community.