A long term, sustainable model OT FOR KIDS work collaboratively with teachers and the whole class to promote the foundation motor skills children need to be learners and writers in the classroom. We screen and track children’s progress and actively partner with teachers to find good solutions for the classroom. This is also a powerful way of up-skilling teachers and providing a framework to consider children’s sensorimotor needs and the relationship with learning and attention.
OT Fingergym
Targeting Kindergarten, this is a whole classroom approach that focuses on building upper body strength and postural stability, hand and finger strength, kinaesthetic awareness, fine motor coordination, pencil control and scissor skills. Focus is also on developing children’s visual-motor skills to understand shape and form and how letters go together.
OT Cool Fingers
An extension program that targets Year 1 and the skills they need to be competent writers and learners. This program focusses on building postural stability, fine motor endurance and coordination as well as pencil control and speed.
Schools we have partnered with in 2019 include:
- Kingswood Park Public School
- Blacktown West Public School
- Marayong Public School
- Marayong Heights Public School
- Braddock Public School
