Occupational Therapy Services
Childworks’ Occupational Therapists can help your children with a wide variety of developmental challenges
Fine motor
- Pencil grip
- Buttons, zips, locks, food packets
- Cutting and pasting
- Using utensils such as cutlery, toothbrush and hair brushes
- Muscle tone and strength
- Drawing, writing and colouring in handwriting
Gross motor
- Midline crossing
- Bilateral coordination
- Range of motion and dexterity
- Stability and posture
- Coordination
- Muscular tone, strength and endurance
Visual motor
- Copying patterns, letters and words
- Letter, name and number recognition
- Figure ground discrimination (e.g.: finding objects in busy classroom setting)
- Scanning and reading
- Writing and drawing
Sensory support
- Self regulation
- Sensory strategies to implement at school and home
- Attention and concentration
- Assistive equipment
- Sensory diet tailored to your child’s needs
- Environmental modifications (including home and school visits)
Social skills
- Joining a group
- Winning and losing fairly
- Compromising
- Social problem solving
- Turn taking and sharing
- Following game rules
- Understanding others’ perspectives (thoughts, feelings and interests)
- Self advocacy
- Establishing and maintaining friendships
- Bullying and cyber safety skills
Self care
- Dressing and undressing
- Eating
- Bathing and showering
- Toileting (wiping, flushing, routine, hand washing, re-dressing lower body)
- General hygiene
- Independence
- Brushing hair and teeth
- Shoelaces
Executive functioning
- Organisation and prioritisation
- Perseverance when completing new or challenging tasks
- Impulse control
- Metacognition
- Emotional regulation
- Working memory
- Time management
- Attention and concentration
- Task completion
- TAFE, university, job readiness
School readiness
- Preparing before the big ‘first day’
- Support for parents leading up to beginning
- Self care
- Fine motor
- Gross motor
- Visual motor
- Executive functioning
- Social skills
- Independence and confidence building
- Transitioning skills
- Modifications and strategies
Support for parents, carers and support staff
- Creating and maintaining a supportive sensory environment in the home and community
- Suggestions for ensuring kids have an environment at home and school that supports their functional and cognitive skills
- Toileting support
- Sleep support
- Feeding and ‘picky eater’ support
- Calm down strategies to use when those ‘big emotions’ take over
- Advocating for your child using Neurodiversity Affirming strategies
- Applying for NDIS funding or additional school support
- Preschool, primary school, high school, TAFE, uni or job readiness and skills
- Assessment and NDIS funding request applications
- General early childhood and development support
Neurodiversity affirming therapy for clients experiencing the following diagnoses
But not limited to …
- Trauma (Trauma Informed Care strategies)
- Children with a Pathological Demand Avoidant profile
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- Executive functioning challenges
- Sensory processing challenges
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
- Global Developmental Delay
- Intellectual disability
- Dyspraxia
- Dyslexia
- Developmental Coordination Disorder
- Down Syndrome
- Hypermobility
- Acquired trauma (e.g.: upper limb rehabilitation especially after breaks and sprains)