Chatterbox Offers Occupational Therapy Services for Children
Chatterbox is committed to providing the best possible care for your child. Our paediatric occupational therapists in Glenwood have a warm and caring nature. They are passionate about working with children, toddlers and infants, helping your child to realise their true potential – with 5 clinics across Sydney in Rosehill, Bella Vista, Oran Park, Kingswood and Penrith.
Our occupational therapy services are warm and friendly. Your child’s successes will be celebrated. All our paediatric occupational specialists share a passion for helping children and families reach their learning goals.
How Can A Paediatric Occupational Therapist Help Your Child?
Our paediatric occupational therapists are committed to empowering children and families with communication skills which foster learning and encourage your child to join in on activities at home and within the community. We can provide care for children suffering from:
- Fine motor Skills
- Gross motor Skills
- Sensory integration
- Sensory Processing and Sensory Defensiveness
- Social Skills
- Play Skills
- Self regulation
- Self Care and toileting advice
- Visual Motor skills
We believe every child has the right to have access to therapy no matter where they live, so we offer online therapy services as well as services within our clinics in Rosehill, Bella Vista, Oran Park, Penrith & Kingswood, we proudly also offer our autism spectrum disorder services to local residents and Western Sydney Suburbs.
What does a Paediatric Occupational Therapist do?
Paediatric Occupational Therapists have been trained to evaluate and provide therapy for children suffering from difficulties with their fine, visual or visual motor skills. Occupational therapists assist children to participate and engage in everyday life.
Paediatric Occupational Therapists are trained to help children with the occupation of being a child, so making and keeping friends, playing, building, running, jumping, being creative, listening and self-care skills like getting dressed and putting on shoes.
What Can A Paediatric Occupational Therapist Assist With?
The common issues Occupational Therapists in Glenwood can help with are:
- Fine motor skills or finger skills like cutting, holding pencils, using zippers, doing up buttons.
- Gross motor skills or whole body movements like running, jumping, swimming, riding a bike, throwing and catching balls.
- Sensory Processing skills for concentration and learning that focus on how the body responses to external stimulus which impacts concentration, behavior and learning.
- Self care skills like dressing, toileting, eating or sleeping.
- Visual motor skills that help a child to interpret visual information that helps for reading, writing or catching a ball.
Paediatric occupational therapists are specially trained to assess and treat your child's play skills, fine, gross, and visual motor skills, as well as support emotional regulation.
Don’t wait. Children can be helped now and in the future through early intervention. These difficulties don’t just ‘go away”. Your child is not having these difficulties because they are lazy. You may find they are starting to avoid situations where they have to participate in an activity or will become frustrated when they have to do their homework.
This is because it is simply hard for them. These difficulties are not caused by a parent. However, if a parent has the right support and advice, they can help their child succeed.
Occupational Therapy Funding Options
There are options available to help you support your child with Occupational therapy and
speech therapy services. We are able to process:
