Sprout Paediatric Therapy Services
Occupational Therapy Services for Children with Special Needs
• Completing written work at school
• Anxiety / self esteem issues / behaviour
• Using tools efficiently (e.g. scissors)
• Making and keeping friends / Social skills
• Attention and concentration
• Organising belongings or work space
• Following instructions
• Drawing or art and craft activities
• Getting dressed independently
• PE / Sport activities or Play skills
• Eating, toileting, and other self care tasks
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Sprout specialises in supporting children with special needs to maximise their physical, social, emotional and learning potential.
We aim to make meaningful connections with children, their families, and their teachers to enable the child to achieve their goals by providing
quality, innovative therapy services and resources.
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Copyright 2011 Sprout Paediatric Therapy Services
• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Attention Deficit Disorders
• Sensory processing Disorders
• Sensory Motor and Co-ordination difficulties
• Learning difficulties
Our OT's have extensive expertise in
helping children with:
If your child is having difficulty with any of
the following our Paediatric Occupational
Therapists can help:
Our Philosophy:
A team approach.
Our experience in working with children has demonstrated that close collaboration between the
family, school / kinder and OT is vital. This results in families and teachers gaining the skills
required to assist the child to reach independence and confidence in a skill area more quickly.
Goals are set collaboratively.
By involving the child, family and teachers in setting the goals, it ensures that therapy is directly
targeted to the individual child’s needs. This means that progress can be measured and seen,
and a child can see for him or herself when they have achieved their targets!!!
Use lots of play based activities.
Children love to play and using lots of play based activities is the most effective way of engaging
a child in the therapy process to make learning FUN!!
Special focus on working with children to develop friendship skills.
Many children don’t just have difficulties with skills such as writing, sport, etc but also friendship
and social skills. These difficulties often impact on a child’s self esteem and ability to relate to
their peers. By actively using a range of strategies we aim to enable children to develop and
maintain self confidence and healthy peer relationships. After all, having good friends is integral to
a child being happy!!
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