Occupational Therapy Services For Children at Chatterbox
Chatterbox strives to provide the best care for your child. Our paediatric occupational therapists in Telopea 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 offer a friendly, warm environment in which your child can feel supported and celebrated for their achievements. 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 can assess and treat children with difficulties in fine, gross, or visual motor skills. They also have the ability to help with sensory and emotional regulation issues. Occupational therapists enable children to be active and participate in their daily lives.
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 Telopea 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”. These problems are not due to your child being lazy. Your child may avoid certain situations or get frustrated when they have 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:
