Children's services
Paediatric Occupational Therapy
Paediatric occupational therapists support children and young people to carry out activities they need, want, or are expected to do, but are prevented from doing due to impairments, injuries or developmental conditions.
Welcome
Paediatric occupational therapists support children and young people (aged 0 - 18 years, or 19 years in full-time education in special schools) to carry out activities (or occupations) they need, want, or are expected to do, but are prevented from doing due to impairments, injuries or developmental conditions.
Paediatric occupational therapists can suggest alternative ways of carrying out activities. provide advice on learning new approaches and help children and young people develop their independence skills within activities of daily living.
We are supporting the CHESS National Study
Supporting the Children's Early Self-Care Support (CHESS) Study
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's Paediatric Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy teams are taking part in the CHESS research study.
If you have any questions or you are interested in taking part, please email bchc.chess@nhs.net.
About the CHESS Study
How can we best support young children's independence and personal care?
CHESS: parents and children have told us, they want better NHS support for young children - to develop independence and personal care.
What are we doing in the CHESS Study?
CHESS:
- We have partnered with parents and NHS services.
- Together we developed new treatments.
- We are now finding out what impact they have.
- We welcome children of all abilities, and families.
- Our focus is on children 1 to 5 years old.
We are supporting CHESS, we hope you will too!
To find out more about the study, please visit the CHESS website.
If you are interested in taking part through BCHC, please email bchc.chess@nhs.net.
