Occupational Therapy

Develops and enhances your childs’ age-appropriate motor, sensory, behavioural, cognitive and social skills. Interventions are age appropriate and multidisciplinary with the primary goal to enable your child to participate in the activities of everyday life.

What is it?

At GFM our Occupational Therapist will work with parents and teachers to support students experiencing delays, disabilities, or health challenges through the provision of therapeutic intervention to promote skill development, compensatory strategies, adaptations to the child’s environment, and/or modifying the task/curriculum. Occupational Therapy (OT) supports individuals of all ages develop the necessary skills to live, learn, work and play, promoting independence and quality of life. For a child, this may include the development of daily living skills such as accessing the school curriculum (e.g., handwriting skills, time management, and organization, interacting/playing with peers), engaging in self-care tasks, self-regulation, behavior management and becoming more independent in their day to day activities.

Who needs it?

Children displaying difficulties in any of the below-mentioned areas may benefit from Occupational Therapy.
• Fine Motor/Gross Motor difficulties
• Coordination difficulties
• Decreased strength or range of motion
• Self-care delays
• Social difficulties
• Visual Motor delays
• Visual Perceptual delays
• Handwriting difficulties
• Sensory processing difficulties
• Behavioral or attention difficulties
• Executive Functioning difficulties
• Developmental Delays
• Learning Difficulties
• Vocational and Transition Support
• Therapies & Processes
• Our therapy delivery and approaches include:
• Screening and Assessment
• Individual therapy
• Group intervention sessions
• Parent/Teacher training
• Teletherapy
• Play-based intervention services
• Child-led and clinician-directed therapy approaches
• Sensory Integration
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Social Skills Programs
• Self-Regulation Programs
• Vocational and Transitioning Programs

 

 

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