Chatterbox provides occupational therapy services for children
Chatterbox strives to provide the best care for your child. Our paediatric occupational therapists in Penrith 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. Our paediatric occupational therapists are passionate about helping children and their families achieve 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 are qualified to provide therapy for children who have difficulties with fine, gross and visual motor skills. Occupational therapists assist children to participate and engage in everyday life.
Paediatric occupational therapy is trained to assist children in the activities of being a child. This includes making friends, running, jumping and being creative. They also teach self-care skills, such as dressing and changing your shoes.
What Can A Paediatric Occupational Therapist Assist With?
The common issues Occupational Therapists in Penrith 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 Specifically Trained To Assess And Treat Your Child's Play Skills, Fine, Gross And Visual Motor Skills As Well As To Support Emotional And Sensory Regulation Skills.
Don’t wait. Early intervention has been proven to help children achieve their best both now and for later success. In general these difficulties do not just ‘go away’. These difficulties are not caused by your child being 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:
