Occupational Therapy helps children engage in everyday activities and tasks demanded of them across all environments, and across all ages and stages of development.
Be it playing and interacting with friends, to being ready to learn and attend, to using skilful movement (e.g. writing, or running and jumping) to self care skill (e.g. hygiene, eating, sleeping, being organised), Occupational Therapy can help.
In essence, Occupational Therapy makes life easier for children, their parents, their teachers/carers and their family. At Kid Sense, we turn Worried into Wonderful, so kids can be the best kids they can be and families can spend more time enjoying them and less time worrying.
Attend for long enough, concentrate on one thing at a time, control emotions and behave appropriately.
Learn everything…academically, socially, movement, in play, in self-care and self management (organisation).
Listening, talking and following instructions
Using sounds in words and talking smoothly
Connecting with others, making friends and conversation skills
Playing alone for solitary recreation, or in a group for social interaction
Kid Sense Occupational Therapy helps children overcome developmental challenges in movement, play, learning, attention and behaviour. At Kid Sense we don’t treat a diagnosis, we overcome the hurdles to daily life.
Pencil and scissor skills (colouring, drawing, writing), opening lunch bags, manipulating toothbrushes, tying shoelaces.
Running, jumping, swimming, bike riding ball skills, posture at the table.
Sensory reactions within the body or in response to environmental stimulus which impacts attention, concentration, behaviour, emotional control play, and learning.
Numerous mental skills that allow to master learning including skills such as working memory, flexible thinking, multi-taking and self-control of concentration and attention.
Accurately interpreting visual information that helps skills such as literacy (reading, writing)
Daily life skills, such as dressing, toileting, hygiene, eating and sleeping.
General organisation, keeping track of personal items, understanding time, using money and following bus schedules.
* Different skills are required at different ages and stages of education.
Occupational Therapy helps children develop the everyday skills needed across their many environments (child care, preschool, school, swim class, sports practice). In doing so, they work closely with the child, their family, and their teachers/carers to implement strategies to support skill development, or to compensate for skills not yet acquired. Occupational Therapy makes life easier by developing the functional everyday life abilities.
Children’s many skills and abilities often develop entwined with others, so you can’t tease out one skill from another as they progress. Given the dynamic and interlocking nature of skills development and the ever-changing demands on children, many children’s challenges in one area of skill development benefit from both Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology. In fact, one often directly supports the other.
Some children benefit from doing both therapies simultaneously while others benefit from a term of Occupational Therapy followed by a term of Speech Pathology. Your child’s therapist can provide “best fit” recommendations for your child if and when Speech Pathology is also recommended.
Kid Sense provides both Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology on site and in schools (variable), ensuring children enjoy a truly integrated multi-disciplinary service.
Planning call (if required)
To determine your child's strengths and 'worries'
Initial treatment to commence intervention, strategies and support
Clinic based Tele-therapy Phone Home Community (Playground) School/Preschool/ Childcare
(ongoing at each appointment)
Review skills during reduced therapy frequency
Celebrate your child's 'wonderful'
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