Paediatric Occupational Therapy

At OT Linkcaring Occupational Therapy, we offer a range of services to help improve your quality of life. Our services include physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. Our team of experienced therapists works with you to create a personalized treatment plan that meets your unique needs.

We offer assessments, consultation, play-based/ developmental interventions for children and consultations to their families. Our referrals includes

Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Global Developmental Delay (GDD)

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

ADD/ADHD

Learning difficulties

Behavioral problems

Poor social skills

Behavioural issues

Our occupational therapists assess children’s large muscle strength, balance, coordination and postural stability. Examples of gross motor skills include sitting, crawling, running, jumping, throwing a ball, and climbing stai

Fine motor skills are skills that involve a refined use of the small muscles controlling the hand, fingers, and thumb. The development of these skills allows one to be able to complete tasks such as writing, drawing, and buttoning.

 Sensory processing means receiving and responding to information from human senses such as light, sound, touch, taste, smell. proprioception, vestibular or interoception. Symptoms of sensory processing disorder varies, depending on how  a child processes sensations, such as hypersensitivity or hyposensitivity.

Handwriting is one of the important occupations/ activities among children. Some common handwriting challenges include  problem with letter shapes (e.g. size, consistency, reversal), spacing and grips and posture.

Social skill is an umbrella term for the necessary skills to interact and communicate with others, such as verbal and non-verbal communication, recognition of social cues and active listening, facial expression etc.  A person who has strong social skills have better knowledge of how to behave appropriately in social situations and adapt to the social situations. Children with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) usually have difficulties with this skill.

Self-care skills are referred to the tasks that we need to do every day. Depending on their age and their physical, cognitive, socio-emotional and psychological development, children can/are expected to participate in life activities, including dressing, feeding, toileting. By offering just the right help at just the right time in just the right way, it is expected that children develop independence in these skills as they mature.