Portrait of young businessman with toy paper wings. Success, creative and startup concept. It’s not long now until children in Australia return to school. For some it will be a smooth transition, while for other children (and their parents) it will be more challenging. My daughter is returning to school, just as she has done […]
READ MOREDoes Your Child Need Occupational Therapy?
How do you know if your child needs Occupational Therapy?
These are some of the red flags to look out for: –
· Does your child have difficulty hopping, skipping, and catching a ball?
· Are they clumsy, frequently trip and bump into things?
· Do they struggle to keep up with their peers in their sporting team?
· Do they struggle to hold a pencil correctly?
· Can they use scissors efficiently?
· Have they got weak fingers and poor dexterity?
READ MOREThe Importance of Good Sitting Posture for Handwriting
Maintaining good posture ensures your body is in good alignment and that stress on your muscles, joints and ligaments are distributed evenly across your body. Poor posture can cause increased strain on your body, leading to fatigue, tight or achy muscles in your neck, back, arms and legs, joint stiffness and pain.
Sitting with good posture during handwriting tasks, is therefore very important and while most issues with handwriting are often associated with poor fine motor skills or difficulties with pencil grip, the impact of good sitting posture and core strength are often overlooked.
READ MOREExtremely Useful iPad Apps for Letter Formation
Is your child beginning to learn how to draw their prewriting shapes or developing their letter and number formations? If so, there are some great iPad apps that support with these skills. Although, paper is preferred, it can be helpful to have other methods to support your child to develop their prewriting or handwriting skills. […]
READ MOREHelping your left handed child written by a left handed OT
August 13th is international left handers day, the one day of the year that all left handers can celebrate. What do we know about being left handed? Left handers account for about 10% of the population. There are more boys than girls who are left handers. Left handedness is genetic. It is still challenging to […]
READ MOREPart 2 – School Readiness – Is My Child Ready to Start School
Part 2 – School Readiness. Is your child ready to start school
READ MOREPart 1 – School Readiness – Is My Child Ready to Start School
Welcome to part 1 of our blogpost, All Things School Readiness! It’s that time of the year where Occupational Therapist’s start receiving lots of pre-schooler referrals, to assist their parents in deciding whether to send their child to school the following year or whether to hold them back. This decision is particularly significant and topical within […]
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