Occupational Therapy addresses cognition and motor challenges to increase a person’s ability within a wide variety of tasks, however as an OT, our role is focused upon increasing your role capacities or occupations.

An occupational therapist at TK can support you within the following areas.

  • Sensory Integration

    Addressing sensory seeking and avoiding behaviours whilst also addressing issues that sensory integration may be having on areas of cognition, motor and your everyday tasks.

  • Gross Motor

    Addressing challenges with coordination and balance and the tasks in which they impact.

  • Fine Motor

    Addressing challenges with manipulating and coordinating motor actions of the hand and the tasks in which they impact.

  • Eye Motor

    Addressing the ability of the eyes to fixate, scan, track and complete convergence and the tasks in which they impact

  • Handwriting

    Addressing letter formation, sizing and the cognitive skills which control handwriting.

  • Processing speed

    Addressing the speed of being able to integrate sensory data and generate meaning.

  • Comprehension

    Addressing the ability to code the what, who, where elements to objects, environments and situations enabling a person to understanding the world at an increased capacity.

  • Planning and Problem Solving

    Addressing challenges with knowing how to respond and planning a reasonable response based upon the situation.

  • Cognitive Reasoning

    Addressing challenges in understanding and applying why and the variable qualities of why to act which impacts upon our how planning.

  • Motor Planning

    Addressing challenges with being able to action a cognitive plan such as with dyspraxia.

  • Attention

    Addressing challenges within being able to stay focused and divide attention.

  • Executive Functioning

    Addressing challenges with being able to process, plan, reason, act and maintain attention to the whole process of thinking and doing.

  • Self Care

    Addressing challenges in toileting, dressing, mealtimes and everyday routines.

  • Self Management

    Addressing challenges in the higher order skills which enable informed choice and decision making, organisational skills, time management, cooking, cleaning, money management and so many more.

What to expect at OT?

Our OTs make attending service FUN! Our brain learns the fastest when engaged so we custom our sessions to individualised need. We will not use reward charts, this and then visuals or any other behavioural approach. But you will see

  • Customised sensory integration strategies

  • Customised cognition strategies

  • Customised Motor strategies

  • Customised High Tech Communication Devices

  • Customised sessions using games, activities, cooking, art ect to suit the goals and skills we are working on improving.