Job Ref: 213877621

Date: 2021-06-02 09:55:14

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Occupational therapist (OT)

Chesham

Immediate Start

An occupational therapist works with children to improve their ability to do daily activities. They can provide specialist equipment to help your child manage or improve specific tasks eg equipment to help with handwriting, or teeth brushing or managing a child’s sensory sensitivity to day to day functioning. The aim is to maximise a child’s potential ability and increase independence.

Problems which an occupational therapist can help with include:

Fine motor skills such as tying shoelaces, cutting and handwriting.
Hand-eye co-ordination, such as when children have problems with copying from a blackboard or ball games.
Daily living skills such as doing up buttons, using utensils, washing, eating and drinking.
Sensory integration, when children find it difficult to process message from the senses into motor responses.
Spatial awareness and proprioception, knowing where your body and limbs are in space, and where objects are in relation to that, organising and interpreting sensory stimuli.
Visual discrimination – children with visual processing difficulty may not see the difference between a triangle and a square, or may mix up similar letters such as p and q. They have trouble reading maps or finding specific items on a page, colouring or writing within lines or margins, and identifying an object when parts of it are hidden.
The therapist will give you a programme to work on at home, which may work on strength and dexterity, or on sensory/visual processing. Therapists can also give you tips and recommend equipment which needn’t be costly but may make a big difference – a rubber mat beneath a dinner plate to stop it slipping and specialised cutlery can greatly improve messy eating, while washing socks with conditioner will make them stretchier and easier to put on for those with co-ordination difficulties.

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