Occupational Therapy for Children
We offer occupational therapy for children. Your child might benefit from occupational therapy if they:
- Have difficulty with everyday activities like eating, dressing, or carrying out personal hygiene tasks like toileting.
- Struggle with school tasks e.g. sitting, concentrating, writing or drawing.
- Need help developing their imaginative or social play skills.
- Have problems with sensory processing – coping with sounds, noises, smells and tastes.
- Struggle with their emotions and how to show them appropriately.
- Experience challenges with elements of their behaviour.
Our highly experienced occupational therapists can help your child develop independent living skills in order to participate to the best of their ability in daily life. One way they achieve this is by assessing all areas of your child’s development including:
- Thinking
- Learning
- Play
- Sensory processing
- Gross motor skills
- Fine motor skills
They also explore your child’s natural environments, including physical or social barriers that can make their life difficult, and can suggest ways of improving or adapting these.
Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health is NDIS registered.
Who can we support?
For those families with NDIS funding, we can support children 0-8 years of age, providing up to 12 months of supports. We accept parent/carer self-referrals and referrals from GPs, paediatricians, specialists and maternal and child health nurses.
For other families, we can support children 0-8 years of age, providing short term supports. We accept referrals from enhanced maternal health nurses, the Royal Children’s Hospital and preschool field officers only.
