Occupational Therapy

Providing family-centred Occupational Therapy

At Little Birds Allied Health, our specialist OT team help with many areas of your child’s development, including thinking, emotions, behaviour, sensory processing, social interactions, play, gross and fine motor skills. Our OT’s take a holistic approach to focus on your child’s strengths and work towards your goals.

If you have concerns for your child, student, or a family member, our team at Little Birds can help.

We often help clients with concerns around:

Fine motor skills
Gross motor
Sensory integration
Concentration
Self-care and Activities of Daily Living (e.g. feeding)
Interactions
Emotional regulation
Executive functioning
Supporting a variety of neurotypes (e.g. Dyslexia, Autistic individuals etc)

Occupational Therapy FAQs

Paediatric Occupational Therapists can evaluate your child’s skills in a variety of areas, including play, social skills, school and other everyday activities.
Paediatric occupational therapists help improve a child’s cognitive, physical, sensory and different motor skills, to build their skills and confidence.
By working alongside and encouraging involvement of parents and teachers, therapy can be incorporated into everyday activities at home and in school.
If there are concerns around concentration, slow to meet milestones, difficulty with using hand and body to complete everyday tasks, avoids certain textures, struggles with self care (e.g. brushing teeth, using utensils when eating, dressing), fine motor or gross motor difficulties, emotional regulation difficulties, difficulties with learning, behavioural, social or and/or play difficulties and difficulties with sensory input.
You could also raise these issues with your maternal child health nurse, GP or Paediatrician.
Yes, We support all children with different needs including,
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ( ADHD)
- Developmental Delay
- Fine or gross motor delay
- Social - emotional challenges … etc
- Fine motor skills like drawing, cutting and handwriting
- Gross motor skills like climbing, balance and ball skills
- Social skills such sharing and taking turns, making friends
- Challenging behaviour such as
- Overall concentration/attention to conversations etc.
- Personal Hygiene, dressing and toileting
- Fussy eating
- Managing emotions
- Play skills
- Sensory processing
- Independence
Once we have an availability that matches your time preference, our administration team will be in touch via phone calls.
When the session time is confirmed, you will receive a new client intake form which needs to be completed and submitted online prior to the initial appointment.
We have occupational therapists who can also speak Cantonese and some Mandarin.