About Us

Skills For Learning

“Skills for Learning” is a child development specific service. Our focus is early childhood (0-8 years of age), as this is a critical age for significant brain and body development. Research demonstrates that positive early childhood experiences are fundamental in healthy development in later life. Early childhood is an age where children develop the learning skills that they will continue to use in schooling and beyond; such as the ability to listen, follow instructions, problem solve, develop friendships, emotional regulation, motor skills and self help skills, just to name a few!

We provide a holistic service that aims to promote and assist age appropriate child development for children 0-8 years of age. We provide capacity building services to families and care providers, in order to integrate knowledge and practice into the educational, child care and home setting, to ensure a generalisation of learned skills into the child’s everyday life.

Staff

Tatiana Arellano
Occupational Therapist
BAppSc (OT)

Director of Skills For Learning

Tatiana qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 2000 from the University of South Australia. She has since worked interstate and internationally to develop her knowledge and expertise in a wide range of clinical and academic areas of practice.

Tatiana established ‘Skills for Learning’ in Western Australia in 2011 in response to a growing demand for early childhood specific services, and she has been providing parent and educator skills development workshops ever since!

Prior to embarking on her private practice, Tatiana worked as an Occupational Therapist across the public, private and not for profit sector. Tatiana’s clinical expertise spans across community based adult and paediatric rehabilitation, neurological rehabilitation with adults and children, and paediatric practice. She has lectured and tutored in both adult and paediatric practice at Curtin University and has also been involved in research projects to further develop links between theory and practice in Occupational Therapy. Tatiana’s academic work has further cemented her appreciation and commitment to ongoing professional development and evidence based practice.

Tatiana has a strong commitment to providing evidence based, current and relevant therapeutic services to families and key stakeholders within their natural environment. Tatiana has a strong emphasis on empowering her clients to identify their own learning needs and assist them to create individualised learning objectives. Tatiana uses relevant, realistic strategies based on current child development theory and practice, and uses standardised assessments and outcome measures to identify relevant goals and impact of intervention.

Tatiana has a passion for creating natural learning environments that promote age appropriate child development and has a special interest in play based therapy, and the creative arts, as a meaningful way to engage children and adults of all ages and abilities. She is currently undertaking further studies in the Visual Arts to further develop her art practice skills.

Our Mission

To provide current, evidence based intervention information and education to parents, carers, educators and key stakeholders to promote strong foundations in early childhood development to children 0-8 years of age.

Our Standards

Skills for Learning is committed to achieving the highest standards in child development.

We develop our programs around applicable industry and national standards. Our professional development workshops are based on the Department of Education's Early Years Learning Framework, a national guideline promoting belonging, being and becoming for Australian pre-school children.