My services
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- Holistic assessment, feedback and home program
- Ages: O months to tertiary level students
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- School-visits
- Team meetings
- Co-formulating feasible strategies
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- Therapy sessions held in home-based, single practitioner practice rooms and garden
- 30-minute sessions (under 5 years)
- 45-minute sessions (5 years and older)
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- For parents, schools, professionals
- On development, learning, play and concerns impacting on babies, children and the youth
- Occupational therapy supervision and mentorship
Occupational therapy could address the areas of:
Postural Control
Postural control is the ability to hold the body in correct alignment to allow the neck, arm and leg levers to operate effectively and efficiently. If postural control is the core concern, physiotherapy is the first recommended intervention.
Sensory Integration
Sensory integration is the process of how the body receives sensory input, links it to the individual’s memory banks and responds with an adaptive response, which could range from a thought to an action. The two components of sensory integration are sensory discrimination (understanding the properties of the sensation) and sensory modulation (how the sensory input makes one feel).
Hand Skills
Visual Perception
Bilateral Integration
Co-ordinated use of the various sides of the body - This includes coordinating the left and rights sides of the body, or the legs and arms together (top/bottom), or using the arms and leg together in the front and back body spaces.
Motor Planning
Motor planning is the ability to formulate, plan, and execute a skilled, new motor action in the accurate sequence. Well-functioning sensory organs, the accurate attention to and integration of incoming sensory input, efficient postural control and concentration skills are components required for effective motor planning and motor actions.
Independence in personal care skills
These include dressing/undressing, using feeding/drinking utensils, toiletting, teeth brushing, washing oneself.
Cognitive Skills
If concentration is the major concern, it is best to first consult an educational psychologist.