Our Academic Skills Boost program equips children with essential skills for success in the school learning environment. We cover school readiness, social skills, sensory modulation, handwriting, and play. Our sessions focus on critical thinking, executive functioning, cognitive abilities, and physical endurance. We emphasize strength, posture, and gradual skill progression. This comprehensive program ensures children thrive academically.
The activities in our program/workshop are designed to address individual needs and target the following set of skills: Hand skills, cutting/scissor skills, hand-eye coordination, upper body strength, pre-writing and writing skills.
These motor and process skills are essential for engaging in various meaningful and necessary occupations such as art, cooking, self-care, and school work. By addressing these skills, we aim to support and enhance the individual’s ability to participate in these activities effectively.
Visual perception involves the analysis of visual information received by the brain through the visual sense, which in turn influences how we interpret and respond to our environment. It has a profound impact on various aspects of our life experiences.
Oculomotor function refers to the ability to control eye movements effectively. When oculomotor & visual perception is impaired, children may struggle with school work, functional activities, leisure and play.
In these sessions, we provide activities and exercises to develop, improve, and maintain visual perceptual skills and oculomotor function.
Our Outdoor Exploration program offers exciting experiences in diverse outdoor environments to enhance gross motor skills such as play ground, sandy beaches, swimming spots. Activities selected promote: endurance, balance, coordination, core strength and body and spatial awareness.
We also address classroom management, ensuring optimal posture and ergonomic seating necessary for learning.
Through engaging activities, we unlock your child’s full potential naturally and dynamically.
I assist your child in developing independence in daily activities, empowering them to acquire essential life skills. In our program/workshop, we focus on self-care and life skills, such as creating healthy habits which may include: healthy eating, mindfulness, time management, organizational skills, and more effective sleeping habits.
We also work on activities like mealtime skills (i.e using utensils), dressing (i.e tying shoelaces), toileting, home organization, chores (i.e bed making), simple meal preparation, gardening, and community participation.
Our aim is to foster independence and active engagement in daily activities, celebrating achievements and building confidence.
My focus is on addressing sensory processing challenges and empowering your child’s self-regulation. I provide interventions and engaging activities to enhance sensory-motor skills, attention, and focus. Sensory processing is our innate ability to organize and interpret sensory information.
This can be targeted 1:1 session in school, home or during a workshop. We acknowledges the connection between our senses and productivity, helping individuals build a personalized toolbox to meet their sensory needs. Join us in exploring the transformative impact of sensory processing on school work, creativity, personal development, emotional regulation, and overcoming fear-based barriers.
Personalised program workshop examples:
Experience a nurturing environment focused on emotional growth. Explore and understand your feelings, as well as those of others. Discover effective coping strategies and build your personal toolbox.
Program/workshop examples: labelling emotions, breathing techniques, practicing gratefulness, understand needs (introverts & extroverts), leave behind what doesn’t serves anymore, self compassion, planning for breaks from a screen, give to others, mindfulness, motivational affirmations and creative activities centered around positivity, gratitude, and inner calm. Embrace the practice of body stretching and/or online yoga and meditation as powerful tools for emotional support and self-discovery.
MFR treatment combined with the perspective of sensory integration is acknowledging the sensation experienced in the body in particular the proprioception sense.
MFR treatment is a safe & effective hands on technique that involves applying gentle stretching, compression, and sustained pressure into the restricted fascia (connective tissue) to eliminate pain and restore motion.
Leisure and recreation skills offer individuals the chance to participate in various activities, fostering the development or rediscovery of interests that can be pursued independently within the community.
Read the following examples of OT input.
I am here to provide you with the necessary support to express yourself creatively. Together, we can explore various engaging activities such as Hebel sculpting, creating a terrarium, or making a vision board. Additionally, I can guide you through gentle stretches and relaxation techniques to help rejuvenate your body and mind. Let’s unlock your creativity and find joy in these expressive endeavors.
I accompany you in community activities like swimming, walking, and jogging. We also discuss your eating habits and future goals.
I provide a safe and supportive environment where you can openly share your daily struggles. Together, we will brainstorm strategies to address these challenges, aiming to enhance your overall quality of life. Moreover, I can help you navigate and challenge any negative or doubtful thoughts you may have towards yourself, others, or recent incidents that could impact your emotions.
I can help you relax by offering you the Myofascial Release experience/treatment that focuses on relaxing your body, mind, and spirit, providing a holistic sense of well-being.
I provide assistance in work and productivity skills including lifestyle balance, and household activities. This includes helping individuals reenter the workforce, offering support in applications and interviews, and promoting healthy habits. In household activities, I offer support with meal planning, gardening, sustainability, organizing, and creating a functional space. In the Lifestyle Medicine category, I focus on community integration, and mindful eating for a vibrant life. Overall, I empower individuals in work, daily life, and holistic well-being.
Life skills contribute to the development of self-reliance in handling everyday responsibilities and aid in avoiding a relapse of negative patterns or behaviors.
We have conversations about the stages of acculturation to NZ and your immigration journey, helping you gain a better understanding of the stage you are currently in.
In addition I can provide recommendations to your home physical environment i.e necessary minor/major adaptations, changes around improved ergonomics, such as your office desk or sleeping system, and improve access through your home to enhance your daily function.
I am here to assist you in understanding your child’s struggles, enabling you to provide better support.
Through role modeling, I will demonstrate how to appropriately adapt and modify activities for your child’s benefit. Additionally, I can offer guidance and support in navigating funding applications for your child’s specific needs, such as those available through organizations like the Wilson Trust or CP Society.
Together, we can empower you to advocate for your child and ensure they receive the necessary resources and support they require.
The focus is on various areas including independent living, economic self-sufficiency, learning, accessibility, personal care, and self-initiation.
Myofascial release, sometimes called “soft tissue mobilization” or “MFR,” is a unique therapy that helps ease tightness in damaged fascia. Fascia is a strong, dense tissue that wraps around and protects our organs, muscles, and bones. Normally, this tissue is soft and flexible, allowing our body parts to move freely.
Part of Myofascial Release (MFR) treatment I may also discuss ergonomics & the additional need for sensory integration (SI). This treatment benefits young people or adults, with or without a disability (for extenuating circumstances i.e. accessibility, please discuss prior to the session).
Ergonomics is the organising and designing of the environment to support individual body types needs, in everyday life occupations. Identifying ergonomic needs can aid safety, posture enhancement, and or body comfort. Assessment of your working space/sleeping setup etc other environments may lead to positive physical changes.
MFR treatment combined with the perspective of sensory integration is acknowledging the sensation experienced in the body. MFR treatment is a safe & effective hands on technique that involves applying gentle stretching, compression, and sustained pressure into the restricted fascia (connective tissue) to eliminate pain and restore motion.
This manual treatment is a passive way to release the blockages in the fascia and it can directly and positively impact your daily occupations. Another way to release the fascia is by active involvement i.e. classes that involve prolonged stretches and other relaxation techniques.
Fascia blockages can be a result of an imbalance of the physical body structures and or a result of emotions that are stored in the fascia. Often physically releasing the tissue can lead to the release of emotions stored there from previous trauma.
During this treatment, you will experience one or more of the sensory processing of information through (proprioception, tactile, visual, smell, auditory, interoception, and vestibular senses).
This treatment aims to slow or wake up the body, reduce sensitivity, calming and regulating, with a heightened physical awareness. Aids with stress management, better range of motion, body awareness, and mind-body-soul connection. Leads to enhanced engagement in daily fun and necessary activities.
