Call Us on 01325 304 411 or Email Us

Posts Tagged ‘finemotorskills’

OT Week 2022!

This year we are looking at “Lift up your everyday”. Watch out this week for our team’s messages to you all about how they chill when at home.

Read More

SOS – how to blow your nose!

SOS – how to blow your nose! This is definitely a very challenging task for our SPD children and there are some very good reasons why they cannot blow their nose. The steps to blowing a nose: The sensation of acknowledging the nose is full or stuffy Holding the tissue Instead of sniffing, the feeling…

Read More

Balance Activities

Balance activities – we need good balance to enable us to take part in daily living skills, sports, games and playing with others safely without causing injury (using the protective responses). Balance skills include: core strength gross motor skills visual motor skills proprioceptive input vestibular input What is static and dynamic balance Both static and…

Read More

Autumn Newsletter – Coming Soon!

Our Autumn Newsletter will be coming out soon and there are lots of good ideas on the horizon to help our families and schools so keep an eye out for it in your in-box. Don’t forget to add yourself to our mailing list if you have not done so already. https://www.treetopsoccupationaltherapy.co.uk/join-mailing-list/ Also keep an eye…

Read More

A very happy little girl

We can also see the improvements your daughter has made. She is really blossoming! It is also great to hear how much she is becoming more tolerant of the calming activities and especially asking for hand/leg squeezies. Brilliant!

Read More

Letter and number reversals

Letter and number reversals – it is not unusual for young children to reverse their letters and numbers when they learn to read and write. However, reversals and poor handwriting could be due to the child being unable to: recall the way to record a letter or number what the letter or number looks like…

Read More