Community Occupational Therapy Service

A child's core strength is the foundation for a child to enable them to maintain their posture. Core strength is needed to allow control the position of the head, shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers, therefore, a child requires a strong core to…

Children can experience a range of difficulties completing tasks at school. We have provided strategy sheets for some of the most common difficulties. Our strategy sheets contain a range of strategies and activities that can trialled at home and…

Fine motor skills are the ability to use the smaller muscles of the hand and wrist to make movements. Fine motor skills are important for a child to allow them to complete self care tasks such as buttoning clothes, fastening zips and feeding. Fine…

  Children learn in many different ways so you might need to vary your approach. You are the expert in your child and you know what approaches might work better than others, different techniques can be used on their own or a combination of…

Visual Perception  is the ability to interpret and give meaning to what is seen. It is made up of several components including; Figure Ground  is the ability to pick out an object from a busy background. Having problems screening relevant…