Chatterbox provides occupational therapy services for children
At Chatterbox we want the best for your child. Our paediatric occupational therapists in Rydalmere are kind and caring. 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 offer a friendly, warm environment in which your child can feel supported and celebrated for their achievements. All of our paediatric occupational therapists share a passion for working with children and families to best support 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 trained to assess and provide therapy for children who may experience difficulties with their fine, gross or visual motor skills as well as sensory and emotional regulation difficulties. Occupational therapists help children to participate and engage in their everyday lives.
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 Rydalmere 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 trained to evaluate and treat children's play skills, fine, visual, and motor skills as well as to support emotional and sensory regulation skills.
Don’t wait. Children can be helped now and in the future through early intervention. In general these difficulties do not just ‘go away’. These difficulties do not occur because your child is 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.
It is because they find it difficult. A parent does not cause their child to have these difficulties, however a parent who has found the right advice and support can help their child to achieve success.
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:
