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Rachel Kamin BScOT has been an OT since 1996 and brings a wealth of clinical experience to her work with children and families. She graduated Magna Cum Laud from SUNY Brooklyn in New York and has been working exclusively with pediatrics ever since. Rachel's passion has always been improving children's lives through playful, motivating therapy. She began her career treating clients together with a team of doctors, nurses, and physiotherapists at Schneider's children's hospital addressing medical, orthopedic and developmental disabilities. She then worked in the New York City school system servicing children receiving regular and special education.
Rachel then treated the 0-5 year old, Early Intervention population in their homes. Her clinical skills, enthusiasm and warmth made her a well sought after therapist. This experience was extremely fulfilling for her and sparked the idea of starting an occupational therapy clinic. Working with families and children together was the most effective method and this was the model she dreamed of- a clinical setting, well equipped and designed to service children and involve parents.
Upon moving to Vancouver in 2005 Rachel continued to work with her favorite population, children with developmental delays and sensory issues, at Vancouver Pediatric Occupational Therapy (VPOT).
After two years it was clear that Vancouver was to be home, and she opened the doors to Vancouver Occupational Therapy For Kid, Ltd. in November 2007 making her vision a reality. Rachel's experience in OT has placed a great focus on Sensory Integration implementing it in many settings and sharing her knowledge with others. She has completed extensive courses on Sensory Integration, NDT, Autism, Learning Disabilities, normal/abnormal development and upper body performance. Rachel enjoys her free time exploring the beautiful outdoors of BC with her family.
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Dimity Duckworth has been practicing Occupational Therapy since 2005. She has had the opportunity of working in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Canada. She has experience working within the various educational systems, with community and hospital based service delivery as well as the private sector. Her clients have been children living with a wide variety of childhood disorders and conditions including: Autism, Sensory Integrative Dysfunction/Sensory Processing Disorder, Angelman Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Congenital Mytonic Dystrophy, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Cri Du Chat Syndrome, Davitt Syndrome, Global Development Delay or PDD, Down Syndrome, Epilepsy, Hearing Impairment, Smith Magenis Syndrome, Sotos Syndrome, Tuberous Sclerosis, Vision Impairment, Williams Syndrome.
Her passion is to work with and enable children and their families to reach their goals and live harmoniously in a sensory rich world. She has specialized in Sensory Integration and travelled to California to complete the only course of its kind, the OT 610 Sensory Integration Course, originally developed by Dr. Ayres, the University of Southern California and the Paediatric Therapy Network. She has extensive experience assessing Sensory Integrative Dysfunction/Sensory Processing Disorder and is certified to implement the Sensory Integrative Praxis Test (SIPT). Dimity has also completed training in measuring the Fidelity to Ayres Sensory Integration® Intervention.
Dimity recognizes the importance of continued professional development and since graduating has completed extensive Sensory Integrative Courses and training, the TLPs Listening Program training, Intensive Interaction: Practitioner training, Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and PART – Professional Assault Response Training.
Dimity made Vancouver home in 2010 and in her spare time she enjoys riding her bike all over town, gazing at the mountains, and swimming at the local beaches.
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Najade Minns, BScOT is a British trained Occupational therapist with over 12 years of paediatric experience. She has worked in a number of paediatric settings in London, Gibraltar and is now based in Vancouver. This extensive experience has helped her to develop a good understanding of the difficulties and challenges parents and children with disabilities face on a day to day basis and she incorporates this into her clinical practice.
Najade has experience in the assessment, treatment and follow up of children with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder, (dyspraxia), Autistic spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Printing difficulties, Sensory Processing Disorder and other complex learning difficulties. She has worked in mainstream and special schools as well as in a clinic based environment offering both individual treatment as well as consultation to parents and teaching staff. She has also worked with children with Cerebral Palsy and other physical disabilities, offering treatment as well as equipment recommendations. She use both her Bobath (NDT) training as well as her multidisciplinary experience working with physiotherapists, speech and language therapist and paediatricians, to offer a functional approach to her treatment.
At Vancouver Occupational Therapy for Kids, Ltd, she continues to use her experience to offer each child a safe and fun environment where they can build on existing strengths and begin to overcome their challenges. She also continue to develop professionally by reading current research and attending courses and lectures, in order to incorporate relevant knowledge into treatment practice.
Najade is a mother of a two young children and enjoys hiking, yoga and good movies.
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Jane Remocker is an experienced Occupational Therapist who works part-time at Vancouver Occupational Therapy for Kids Ltd. as well as managing her own business, Vancouver Paediatric Occupational Therapists.
Her original professional training was in the UK and this was followed by a degree in OT from UBC soon after she immigrated to Canada. She is co-author of Action Speaks Louder, an occupational therapy textbook that has been in print for over 30 years and has done extensive post-graduate training in Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing Disorder. She maintains an intense interest in current OT and SI research and her own continuing education and recently completed a course on developing Oral Motor and Feeding Skills in the Downs Syndrome Population. She loves to mentor the younger therapists and share her knowledge, is passionate about her profession and the value of occupational therapy and actively promotes occupational therapy and its benefits to families whose children have a diagnosis of ASD.
When not working as an OT, Jane spends much of her time doing volunteer work. She is an accomplished equestrian and sailor. She loves to travel with her husband to exotic destinations and is very proud of her three grown children and their individual accomplishments.
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