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Developmental Assessment
Our developmental assessment is a comprehensive evaluation used by therapists to understand a child’s strengths, challenges, and overall development across key areas such as motor skills, sensory processing, attention, emotional regulation, and daily living skills. Assessment typically involves a combination of parent interviews, clinical observations, and standardised tools. This process helps identify how a child is functioning in everyday environments like home and educational settings, and informs personalised therapy goals and intervention strategies to support their participation, independence, and wellbeing.
Motor Skill Development
Motor skill development refers to the progression of a child’s ability to move, coordinate, and control their body for everyday tasks and play. Occupational therapy supports both gross motor skills and fine motor skills, which are essential for participation at home, school, and in the community.
Gross motor skills involve the larger muscles of the body and include activities such as running, jumping, climbing, balancing, and ball skills. These skills are important for physical confidence, playground participation, and overall strength and coordination.
Fine motor skills involve the smaller muscles of the hands and fingers and are needed for tasks such as drawing, writing, cutting, doing up buttons, and using utensils. Fine motor development also supports hand strength, coordination, and precision.
Best Practice in Autism
We use evidence-based, neurodiversity-affirming approaches that support autistic individuals to thrive in ways that are meaningful to them. Rather than focusing on “fixing” behaviours, best practice prioritises understanding each person’s unique strengths, differences, and needs, and creating supportive environments that enable participation, wellbeing, and autonomy.
Social Skills
Occupational therapists support the development of social skills by helping children build confidence and connection in everyday interactions. This includes understanding social cues, taking turns, sharing, and developing appropriate communication skills.
Therapy focuses on skills such as initiating and maintaining interactions, flexible thinking, and managing emotions within social situations. OTs use play-based and interest-led approaches to support meaningful engagement with peers.
The goal is to help children feel more confident navigating social environments, building positive relationships, and participating in group activities at school and in the community.
Mealtime Management
We support children with mealtime challenges by addressing the skills needed for safe, comfortable, and positive eating. This may include sensory processing, posture, and self-feeding abilities.
Support can help with fussy and problem feeding and difficulty trying new foods. Therapy focuses on building confidence with food, developing practical skills, and creating calm, supportive mealtime routines—always using a gentle, family-centred approach to reduce stress and promote enjoyment of eating.
Regulation
We support children to develop regulation skills across sensory, emotional, and behavioural areas. This includes helping children understand their body signals, manage big feelings, and respond to everyday challenges in a calm and flexible way.
Therapy may focus on building awareness of energy levels, developing coping strategies, and supporting attention and engagement. OTs also work with families and educators to create supportive environments and routines that promote regulation.
The goal is to help children feel more in control of their bodies and emotions, improving their confidence, participation, and overall wellbeing.
Handwriting Skills
Occupational therapists support the development of handwriting and written expression by building the underlying skills needed for effective handwriting. This includes fine motor strength, pencil grasp, hand–eye coordination, posture, and visual motor integration.
Support also extends to structuring written work, helping children organise their ideas, plan their writing, and use clear layout, spacing, and sequencing.
Therapy focuses on improving letter formation, fluency, and writing endurance, while using practical, engaging strategies to build confidence. The goal is to support clear, legible, and well-structured writing for successful participation in school tasks.
Groups
Groups provide a supportive and engaging environment for children to build skills alongside peers. Groups are designed to target specific areas of development while promoting confidence, connection, and participation.