OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
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One-on-one Occupational Therapy can provide child-centred, evidence-based tailored assessment and treatment to support your child’s development. Within these sessions, the Occupational Therapist with the involvement of the family will develop goals to support the child’s needs. Common areas of treatment include the following:
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Sensory Processing
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Emotional Regulation and Behaviour
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Social Learning
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Fine and Gross motor skills
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Handwriting development
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Daily living tasks including dressing, feeding, toilet training
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Feeding and Mealtime support
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Executive functioning skills
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Equipment prescription and Assistive Technology
Initial Consultation:
During the referral process, it is likely your child will be recommended for an initial assessment. This will provide the therapist the opportunity to discuss your concerns and use various standardised and non standardised assessments to establish a baseline of your child’s skills. This will greatly support their ability to track progress and establish achievable and appropriate goals with yourself and your child.
Assessments take approximately 1.5 - 2 hours (depending on the age of the child) and involve a parent interview, assessment of your child, and goal setting.
Following the assessment you can request for a comprehensive report which will provide a thorough overview of the assessment findings, outline of the chosen goals and recommendations for therapeutic intervention.
