We are advocates for your child’s right to be happy and included in school life. We will make staff aware of what help your child needs to enable them to be as independent as they can be in the environment. We will advise on how changes to the environment, or the activity, can make school more inclusive. Times of change can be particularly challenging – from moving classes to changing schools we can help with this process.

Our hands are important to reach, touch and feel, hold and explore, as well as to make sense of the world around us and allow us to take part in a whole range of activities such as reaching out to a toy, bringing a hand to our face to eat and cleaning our teeth, fastening fiddly buttons or writing.

At SP Therapy Services our Occupational Therapists are able to work with you and your child to help them use their hands in the best way possible. Our Occupational Therapists will consider all aspects of your child – what motivates them and how they use their vision and their sense of touch, ensuring that they are sitting well, or changing and modifying the tasks.

A young person may benefit from using a piece of equipment to increase their independence and improve their quality of life.

Occupational Therapists are skilled at identifying the underlying reason for the difficulty and using clinical reasoning to make recommendations. This may involve working with specialist companies to complete an assessment, or it can be something very simple like a grip on a pencil, adapted scissors, or a rail by the side of toilet to help them get on and off.

Introducing specialists equipment can also assist in preventing bone and skeletal problems as your child grows. Seating and sleeping postures are crucial. At SP Therapy Services our input does not stop with the child or young person, we provide advice and equipment to help those caring for the young person to move them in a safe and comfortable way.

At SP Therapy Services, we ensure that the changes made enable a young person to be as independent as possible in daily activities and that those caring for them can support the young person in a safe and dignified way. The advice can also be given to the young person’s school or college environment.

Our Occupational Therapists are experts in finding solutions to everyday tasks that young people need to and want to do. For example, grading purposeful activities by making a meaningful activity progressively more challenging such as learning to fasten big chunky buttons on a cardigan before small fiddly ones on a school shirt.

We may also develop compensatory strategies – changing the way something is done such as wearing a pull-on top instead of one with buttons.