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Occupational Therapy
Self-maintenance Leisure Productive tasks
How can an Occupational Therapist (OT) help?
A children’s Occupational Therapist (OT) is a therapist who supports children with their “Occupations” or “Jobs” in everyday life i.e. OTs assist children to participate in the activities they are involved in on a daily basis, including the ones they want to do, need to do, or are expected to do by others, but are having difficulty.
These are different for each child, and may include:
Self-maintenance activities
Interacting with objects and toys
Getting ready in the morning
Sleeping
Grooming
Bathing/showering
Brushing teeth
Getting dressed
Feeding themselves
Eating a range of foods
Interacting with toys
Objects and people
Organising their belongings
Sleeping
Relaxation activities
Rest
and self-care.
Leisure
support and improve
participation in activities.
Colouring 
Participating in sport
Hobbies
Birthday party
School related activities
Packing bag
Visual schedules and supports
Routines
Productive Tasks
and organisiation skils.
impacting on the child’s ability to participate in these activities. This may be related to how their body is structured (e.g. low tone, restrictions in movement); their ability to
process information from their environment using their senses; their thinking, memory and problem solving skills; emotional regulation; social skills; the way a task/activity is set up, or how the environment is set up.
What does an Occupational
Therapy session look like?
Therapy sessions look very different depending on what the goal is. It is usually a combination of working on the activity that is the goal e.g. being able to tie hair up into a ponytail, or tye shoelaces, or use two hands to open a lunch container, or using a spoon to feed themselves; and play activities relevant to the child’s age that may also work on the components involved in the goal activity, e.g. doing games that involve particular movements of the fingers in preparation for using a pencil.
The Occupational Therapist will partner with the families to coach them in how to support their child to increase their participation in chosen activities, and support them to find a realistic way of incorporating strategies into the child’s day.
Alana, Megan & Sophie
Occupational Therapists
Meet Alana
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
Who are our team of Occupational Therapists?
Our team consists of Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologist, Physiotherapists, and our Administration Officer.