Gross motor delay
0–3 yrsNot rolling, sitting, crawling or walking near the expected window. Assessment is observational, which video suits — I watch your child move in their own home rather than in a strange room.
For Indian families in Australia
Paediatric physiotherapy for Indian families in Australia
Dr. Jyoti Bajpai (MPT, NIRTAR) has focused on paediatric physiotherapy since 2020. Consult by video from anywhere in Australia, in your own language, alongside your NDIS providers. ₹1,999 per 45-minute session.
Where we fit
Alongside NDIS early childhood approach, not instead of it
In Australia, children under nine with developmental concerns or disability are supported through the NDIS early childhood approach, which funds a plan of therapy rather than delivering it directly. Families then choose providers and spend the funded hours.
Plan hours are finite, and therapy in Australia is expensive per hour, so families are constantly deciding how to ration them. Cheaper coaching between funded sessions makes the plan stretch considerably further.
What this actually gives you
Make the plan hours go further
Save your funded hours for what needs a local hands-on provider, and use us for the coaching and progression work in between. Families tell us this is the single biggest practical difference.
A consistent clinician across provider changes
Providers change as plans get reviewed. We stay constant, which matters for a child who takes time to warm to a new adult.
Timezones that actually suit children
Australia is ahead of India, so India-morning slots land in the Australian afternoon — after school, when a child is available and not exhausted.
How a paediatric session runs
It is not an adult appointment with a smaller patient. The model is different, and it is the part that makes video work for children.
You and your child, at home
I watch your child move on their own floor with their own toys. For a young child that is more representative than a clinic room, not less.
I coach you, not just them
Between sessions the therapy is delivered by you. Most of the call is teaching you the handling, the positions and what "good" looks like.
A written plan within 24 hours
Exercises, dosage, what to watch for, and what to escalate. Shareable with your local team so nobody is working blind.
Reviewed as they change
Children change quickly and outgrow a programme fast. We progress it rather than leaving you repeating month-old exercises.
What I treat in children
If your child’s concern is not on this list, ask. The free call exists partly so nobody pays for a session that was never going to be the right thing.
Torticollis and head-shape asymmetry
0–12 mthsA baby who consistently turns or tilts to one side. Handling, positioning and tummy-time coaching for parents, with progress tracked on photographs between sessions.
Toe walking
2–8 yrsPersistent walking on tiptoes past the age it usually settles. We separate habitual toe walking from a tight calf or a neurological cause, and refer where that is what is needed.
Flat feet and in-toeing
3–10 yrsVery often normal variation that needs reassurance rather than treatment. Where it does need work, it is foot and hip strengthening — not expensive insoles by default.
Hypermobility
5–16 yrsBendy joints, frequent aches, tiring quickly, poor handwriting endurance. Strength and joint-control work, paced so it does not flare.
Cerebral palsy — home programme
All agesNot a replacement for the local therapy team. A structured home programme and parent coaching for the days between their appointments, which is where most of the hours actually are.
Developmental coordination disorder
5–14 yrsThe child described as clumsy — struggles with cycling, catching, buttons, PE. Task-specific practice broken into steps a parent can run daily.
Adolescent scoliosis
10–18 yrsSchroth-based three-dimensional corrective exercise and breathing retraining, alongside whatever monitoring or bracing the local orthopaedic team has advised.
Osgood-Schlatter and growth-plate pain
10–16 yrsKnee pain in a sporty teenager during a growth spurt. Load management that keeps them playing where possible, rather than a blanket ban on sport.
Screen posture and back pain
8–18 yrsNeck and back pain in children doing long screen hours. Assessed against their actual desk, at home, over video.
When to see a doctor first, not a physiotherapist
Online physiotherapy is not emergency care and it is not a substitute for your child’s paediatrician or local medical team. If any of the following apply, get your child seen locally before booking anything with me:
- Loss of a skill your child previously had — walking, talking, using a hand
- Pain that wakes your child at night, or pain with fever
- A joint that is hot, swollen or that they refuse to move or bear weight on
- Sudden change in walking, or a limp with no injury behind it
- Weakness on one side of the body, or a marked difference between the two sides
- Any concern about your child being unwell rather than simply stiff or sore
Questions parents ask
Can we pay for this out of NDIS funding?
You should assume not. NDIS funding is intended for registered or plan-managed providers delivering within its framework, and an overseas telehealth clinician generally does not meet that. Treat the ₹1,999 as a self-funded supplement that makes your funded hours go further, not as a claim.
How does this work alongside our NDIS physio?
Your NDIS provider keeps the formal goals, equipment and any hands-on work. We take the home programme — running it more often than the plan funds, correcting technique, and progressing it as your child improves. We send a written summary after each session for your provider.
Our son is eight and about to age out of the early childhood approach. Does that change things?
It changes your NDIS pathway, not the physiotherapy. The exercises, the progression and the parent coaching carry on the same way regardless of which funding stream your child sits in.
Is video really enough for a child who cannot follow instructions?
For very young children or children with significant disability, the session is largely me coaching you while you handle your child, rather than me instructing the child. That is how paediatric physiotherapy mostly works in person too — the parent is the one doing it the other six days a week.
Start with the free 15-minute call
Describe what you are seeing in your child. If online physiotherapy is the wrong answer for them, I will say so on that call rather than after you have paid for a session.