About Our Service

What is Paediatric Occupational Therapy?

Paediatric occupational therapists support children and young people (aged 0 to 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.

 

What is SEND Occupational Therapy?

SEND Occupational Therapy are a team of registered Occupational Therapists and senior therapy assistants who are dual trained by Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists.

The team use a tiered model approach to deliver services to children, young people and families within the Birmingham area.

 

Tiered model approach

Universal	Families and professionals are able to access a range of resources and information across our SEND Occupational Therapy webpage.
Targeted	All mainstream schools and early years settings have the opportunity to upskill their staff and families on specific topics within their settings. This could be through online webinars, face-to-face training within settings or support to set up groups. All support and training provided is free. Please see our ‘Accessing our Training’ section for further information.
Individualised	If you require some further information and advice around individualised support after accessing the universal and targeted training from SEND Occupational Therapy, please visit Paediatric Occupational Therapy.

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