How can I support your child?
Occupations
We can support your child in gaining autonomy in the following occupations:
Self-care
tasks
Productive
activities
Leisure activities
These tasks include:
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Personal hygiene
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Dressing
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Feeding
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Toilet training
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Sleeping
These activities include :
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Writing
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School & Play
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Work (for young adults)
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Social skills
These include any hobby your child loves to engage in!
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Sports
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Arts
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Social activities
Personal characteristics
We work on developping your child's personal skills and abilities that are needed to perform the activities that are meaningful to them, while consdering their interests, beliefs and motivation!
Fine motor
Gross motor
Executive functioning
They include all components of hand function : grip strength & endurance, finger dexterity, in-hand manipulation, bilateral coordination, finger isolation
& opposition.
Sensory processing & Self-regulation
Necessary to manage one's thoughts, level of alertness, feelings, physiological responses, and behaviour, so ADLs can be performed satisfyingly.
Sensory regulation skills: allow to cope with sensory seeking behaviours & hyper/hypostimulation
Emotional regulation skills: allow to develop positive coping mechanisms when overwhelmed by feelings as sadness, anger & stress.
They include skills as balance, coordination, upper and lower body strength & endurance, core strength & endurance, as well as motor planning and sequencing
Oral motor
Allow movements of the muscles in the mouth, jaw, tongue, lips and cheeks. The strength, coordination and control of these oral structures are the foundation for feeding related tasks, such as sucking, biting, crunching, licking and chewing.
These skills include, among others, the capacity to organize your thoughts, plan ahead and meet goals, display self-control, follow multiple-step directions even when interrupted, stay focused despite distractions. They also include the ability to adapt to different situations and fix mistakes.
Visual perceptual
Skills that enable a child to make sense of and interpret what they are seeing.
Features of the environment
We are also experts in assessing the different features of your child's environment, to determine any factors that could be impacting their daily function!
Physical
environment
This type of environment can include:
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Home
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Daycare
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School
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Work environment
Social
environment
This type of environment can include:
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Family
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Friends
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Teachers, therapists
Cultural environment
This type of environment is very important as it encompasses one's beliefs, traditions and moral values - which are factors that I highly consider when suggesting recommendations and intervening with your child.