# OTWaitlist

> A directory of paediatric occupational therapy (OT) clinics in Australia, focused on showing which clinics have capacity to take new clients now. Free for families, AHPRA-aligned, sourced from public NDIS and clinic listings.

## Key facts

- Operates in Australia (AEST timezone)
- Tracks 891 paediatric OT clinics across 344 suburbs and 7 states/territories
- Covers NDIS-registered and non-registered providers
- Updated weekly from public listings
- Focus: paediatric (children 0-18) — not adult OT
- Free for families to use, no signup required
- Operated by Davis Grainger, trading as OTWaitlist (Brisbane, Australia)
- Founded 2026

## Use cases

- Parents searching "paediatric OT [suburb]" or "OT taking new clients [city]"
- NDIS plan managers looking for verified providers
- GPs and paediatricians making referrals
- Allied health professionals checking peer clinic capacity

## Important sections

- [Homepage](https://otwaitlist.com.au/): Search by suburb, see clinics with capacity
- [Suburb directory](https://otwaitlist.com.au/sitemap-suburbs.xml): Suburb-level provider lists for every covered location in Australia
- [Provider pages](https://otwaitlist.com.au/sitemap-providers.xml): Individual clinic listings with services, contact, NDIS status
- [Service overviews](https://otwaitlist.com.au/services/): What paediatric OT looks like for each service area
- [Condition pillars](https://otwaitlist.com.au/conditions/): Parent-facing guides on autism, sensory processing, ADHD, developmental delay, handwriting, fine motor, and early childhood
- [Answers](https://otwaitlist.com.au/answers/): 50 direct, parent-facing answers to the most-asked paediatric OT questions in Australia (cost, NDIS, wait times, what to expect, OT vs other therapies)
- [Statistics](https://otwaitlist.com.au/statistics/paediatric-ot-australia/): Public dataset on paediatric OT supply across Australia — provider counts by state, NDIS registration rates, service distribution. CC-BY licensed.
- [Open data](https://otwaitlist.com.au/data/): Downloadable CSV and JSON of the full paediatric OT availability dataset, released under CC-BY 4.0.
- [Compliance](https://otwaitlist.com.au/about/): AHPRA Section 133 alignment, data sourcing, takedown policy
- [Privacy](https://otwaitlist.com.au/privacy/): Privacy policy
- [Terms](https://otwaitlist.com.au/terms/): Terms of use

## Open dataset

- Dataset: Paediatric Occupational Therapy Availability in Australia
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0)
- Downloads (CSV + JSON): https://otwaitlist.com.au/data/
- Zenodo concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21019688 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21019688)
- Wikidata entity: Q140376160 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140376160)

## Optional

- [Search index (JSON)](https://otwaitlist.com.au/search-index.json): Machine-readable suburb list for search/autocomplete
- [XML sitemap index](https://otwaitlist.com.au/sitemap.xml): Master sitemap index referencing themed sub-sitemaps (providers, suburbs, services, conditions, provider-conditions, suburb-conditions, answers, static)