What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapy is a client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagementª.
For children, this can mean things like playing and interacting with others through to learning and school based tasks as well as understanding ourselves and developing our independence as we work towards being a young adult.
ªOccupational therapy Australia
Can Occupational Therapy help my child?
Does your child have difficulties with any of the following?
– Fine motor skills
– Gross motor skills
– Handwriting
– Social skills
– Play skills
– Sensory processing
– Learning difficulties
– Feeding difficulties
– Emotional difficulties
– Challenging behaviours
– Self-care (toileting, dressing, organisation, and others)
– School transitions
– Community skills
RiverRun PTS can help – please contact us to discuss any difficulties you may be having and how we might be able to help.
The OT Process
Coming to terms with needing Occupational Therapy support can be as confusing as it is confronting. To simplify the process, the flowchart below shows a “typical” process from referral through to individualised therapy support. It should be noted that a GP/paediatrician referral is not required to access our services – self-referrals or school-based referrals are more than welcome at RiverRun PTS.
