🔍 What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational Therapy (OT) is a client-centred health profession that promotes health and wellbeing through purposeful activity. For children, their primary “occupations” are playing, learning, self-care and participating socially. Our occupational therapists help children who find these everyday activities difficult due to developmental, sensory, motor or neurological challenges.

At Sherin’s Rainbow, our OT programme uses a Sensory Integration framework, the MOHO (Model of Human Occupation) and play-based clinical reasoning. We address fine motor skills, sensory processing, visual-motor integration, self-regulation, handwriting, feeding and activities of daily living (ADLs) to make meaningful, lasting improvements in a child’s everyday functioning.

We work closely with parents, schools and other therapists to ensure strategies are carried over into every environment the child inhabits — maximising progress and generalisation of skills.

💡 Who Needs Occupational Therapy?

• Children who struggle with handwriting — messy, slow, or painful writing
• Children with sensory sensitivities — over or under-responsive to touch, noise, movement, smell or taste
• Children who have difficulty dressing, doing buttons, tying shoelaces or managing a lunchbox
• Children who struggle with self-feeding, food textures or mealtimes
• Children with attention and focus challenges affecting school or home participation
• Children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Sensory Processing Disorder
• Children with ADHD who struggle with organisation, transitions and task completion
• Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD/Dyspraxia) — clumsy, uncoordinated movement
• Children with Cerebral Palsy or other neurological conditions affecting hand function
• Children who struggle with emotional regulation and behavioural outbursts

🎯 Areas We Address

• Sensory Integration & Sensory Diet Planning — regulating the nervous system for daily function
• Fine Motor Skills — pencil grip, cutting, threading, manipulation and hand strength
• Visual-Motor Integration — eye-hand coordination for writing, drawing and sport
• Self-Care & Activities of Daily Living — dressing, feeding, grooming and toileting
• School Readiness — sitting, attention, following instructions, organising school materials
• Social Participation — turn-taking, cooperative play and peer interaction strategies
• Executive Function — planning, organisation, working memory and flexible thinking

⚙️ Our OT Process

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