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How we can help:
Bright Possibilities Occupational Therapy offers a wide range of therapy support to help individuals of all ages live life to the fullest.
Our therapy is clinically designed to support individual's to be able to more easily participate and engage in their daily desired activities.
We are dedicated to providing personalised care to empower all clients to achieve their goals and thrive in their daily activities.
An OT can help with:
Building Independence for Self-Care
- Toileting
- Dressing
- Feeding
- Getting ready for the day
- Bathing
Developing Social Skills
- Making conversation with others.
- Turn-taking
- Flexible thinking
- Social problem solving/peer conflict resolution
- Supporting maintaining of friendships
Understanding Sensory Processing
- Identifying your child's individual sensory profile.
- Your OT will analyse the data and provide you with explanations/strategies of the profile.
- Incorporate alerting or calming activities directly into your child's routine to support regulation.
Supporting Daily Routines and Daily Living Skills
- Support Executive Functioning skills.
- Provide suggestions for tools.
- Build skills with your child for greater independence in this area.
- Integrating your child's interests to support motivation.
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Skill Development
- Fine Motor Skills
- Gross Motor Skills
- Postural/core/tone
- Social communication skills
Recommended tools to enhance daily participation
- seating suggestions/trials
- writing/utensil adapted tools
- visuals
- technology apps
- other tools
- recommendations for community access
Assessment and Evaluations
- To determine individual care needs and requirements.
- To support appropriate funding advocation.
- To evaluate an individual's functional capacity.
- To recommend external supports within the home and the community.
- To recommend additional referrals based upon observations of an individual.
Development of Life Skills
- Supporting your child to develop foundational and fundamental skills to promote increased independence in the future.
eg. safety, danger awareness, social/emotional awareness, interoception skills (identifying internal body cues), self-help skills, personal awareness, confidence, resilience, job readiness skills.
