Hadeel Alkurdi

Senior Occupational Therapist
DHA License Number: 26226758-002

Biography

Meet Hadeel Alkurdi, Senior Pediatric Occupational Therapist with 8+ years of experience. She’s dedicated to personalized care, neurodiversity, and inclusion, empowering individuals of diverse abilities.

Hadeel collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to help children reach their full potential. She holds a Bachelor’s in Occupational Therapy from the University of Jordan. Her expertise covers babies to school-aged children in clinics, special needs schools, and mainstream schools, offering individual and group therapy.

Passionate about fostering children’s independence, Hadeel advocates for inclusion. She’s trained in Sensory Integration, Hippotherapy, DIR-Floortime, ABA, Handwriting without Tears, Makaton sign language, and NDT.

Her experience spans autism, developmental delays, motor/genetic disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, and bilingual (Arabic/English) children. Fluent in both languages, Hadeel offers therapeutic support in both.

HER CERTIFICATIONS

Ayres SI level 1 Certified “Theoretical Foundations of Sensory Integration: From Theory to Identification” University of Southern California Division of Occupational Therapy, 30 contact hours
Trained in vestibular and visual interventions under the guidance of Ms. Kim Barthel.
Completed a comprehensive workshop by Alexander Lopiccolo, gaining proficiency in sensorimotor techniques for effective therapy.
Hippotherapy Treatment Principles Certification: Certified in principles and techniques of hippotherapy, offering unique and innovative interventions.
Basic Life Support Certification: Trained in essential life-saving techniques, ensuring a safe therapeutic environment.
DIRFloortime: enhancing client-focused therapy strategies
British Makaton for Professionals Certification
Board Certified Autism Technician (BCAT), by Institute for Behavioral Training. Center for Autism & Related Disorders (CARD) / 40 hours.
Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization Certification: integrating developmental kinesiology approaches into therapy sessions.

HER Expertise

Attention deficit ADD/ADHD
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Birth injuries or defects- neural tube defects, microcephaly, congenital ataxia, Chiari malformation
Cerebral Palsy
Chronic illnesses
Chronic pain patients
Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)
Down Syndrome/Trisomy 21
Dyspraxia
Environmental Modifications
Epilepsy Disorders such as Dravet Syndrome
Executive Functioning Disorders (difficulties with organizing tasks, managing time, initiating activities, and completing assignments.)
Fatigue
Genetic and chromosomal conditions
Global Development Delay
Hand or Foot injuries
Hydrocephaly
Learning Difficulties including Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
Learning disabilities (handwriting, visual motor and visual perceptual difficulties)
Mental health or behavioural problems
Neurological deficits – Stroke, Guillian Barre syndrome
Neuromuscular diseases
Rare genetic diseases/chromosomal disorders such as CDKL5, Williams Syndrome, Angelman’s syndrome, Rett’s syndrome
Seating
Sensory Processing Disorder
Social Communication Disorders
Spina Bifida
Spinal cord injuries
Traumatic brain injuries