Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy is concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation.

The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or expected to do, or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement

Occupational Therapy services available at Synergy Learning and Therapy 

• Activities of daily living (e.g. toileting, showering, eating, grooming, dressing)
• School based skills – listening and following instructions, task completion, following routine/schedules, reading (letter recognition or visual perception), and writing skills
• Motor skills – fine motor or gross motor and what these skills impact (e.g. cutlery use, holding pencil, tying shoelaces)
• Sensory regulation and processing 
• Working memory and organisation/problem solving and planning
• Interaction and play skills
• Social and coping skills (some overlap with psychology)

Individual or multidisciplinary sessions provided as needed. School visits by negotiation. Can assist with the acquisition of moto, school-based, play, social and/or visual perception skills. Also assist children to develop skills needed for activities of daily living such as toileting and dressing, as well as sensory regulation.