OT for Children  |  OT for Adults 

Occupational Therapy (OT) focuses on improving or maintaining people’s function and assisting people to reach their potential. Sarah works with both children and adults with an array of difficulties or disabilities.

 

Occupational Therapy for Children:
OTs focus on children’s

• General development:
I can assess whether your child is meeting age appropriate milestones. For example if your child rolling, sitting, crawling, and feeding.

• Fine motor skills:
Fine motor skills include the smaller movements we need to complete to achieve certain tasks. These include handwriting, buttons, zips, picking up small objects and precision in activities. An OT can assess to see if your child’s fine motor skills are age appropriate.
• Gross motor skills/coordination:
I can assess your child’s gross motor skills. These include the larger movements children perform, including hopping, skipping, jumping, climbing and throwing and catching a ball.
• Self care tasks:
These include sleeping, eating, dressing and toilet habits. I have many hints and ideas that can assist your child to become more independent in these areas.
• Play skills:
I can assess the play skills a child demonstrates and ensure they are age appropriate. These include imaginary play, sharing, interacting with others, and following basic rules.

• Attention and Concentration:
I can assist to improve your child’s attention and concentration and any other sensory processing difficulties they may be having. These may include adversities to noises, certain foods, spinning or touch.

If a child is found to be performing below that expected of their age, or is having difficulty in any of the above tasks I will devise a treatment plan. This may include one on one therapy, a home program, a school program and/or group therapy with peers of a similar age.

 

The majority of my therapy is implemented through age appropriate play and emphasis is placed on ensuring the children love their therapy time. I also utilise music therapy as part of my approach to treatment.

 

I complete therapy for children with an array of disabilities who are having difficulties with the above mentioned areas, for example Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Delays, and Learning Difficulties.

 

I will conduct a comprehensive medical history and conduct a thorough assessment on your first visit, so please allow one hour for this visit.

 

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Occupational Therapy for Adults:
OTs focus on people having difficulties with:

• Activities of Daily Living:
These include showering, eating, dressing, toileting. I can provide assessments and more importantly therapy and suggestions that may improve independence and function when completing these tasks. This may involve recommendations of equipment or alternative ways to complete tasks.
• Rehabilitation:
I am able to provide advice and therapy before and after surgery to ensure you return to your optimum independence and function following an operation.
• Chronic Disease/Disability:
I can provide education, support and therapy for people experiencing difficulties surrounding an array of disease’s or disabilities.

I will conduct a comprehensive medical history on your first appointment and discuss your priorities with you. Your first appointment will take approximately one hour.

 

I will provide a range of services depending on your need including therapy, support, education, and home visits when needed.

 

I am always happy to liaise with any other health professionals or caregivers as your wellbeing is always my main priority.

 

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