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How we help

Our OTs at Simply OT aim to help kids play, improve their school performance, and help them engage in their various daily activities. This hugely contributes to boosting their self-esteem and results in a sense of accomplishment. Below are a list of the areas in which we can help children. Visit the 'SimplyOT Kids' page for more details.

Handwriting difficulties

Good handwriting is an essential life skill and a cornerstone of academic success.

A child that meets difficulty with handwriting can quickly become frustrated and unmotivated. Acting proactively and early ensures that their problems are addressed quickly and minimizes the impact on their progress in school.

We regularly help children with writing difficulties and can implement treatment at our practice and/or at school. When we help a child with handwriting, we often see improvements in other areas of development, including academic and behavioural progress.

Gross motor skills

Gross motor skills are the foundation of a child's developmental milestones

We regularly assist parents and schools concerned with a child's difficulty with classroom or playground activities due to gross motor problems. Our practical advice helps them develop abilities and confidence in all areas of everyday life. Whether your child's school has identified gross motor problems or you have noticed these problems yourself, we can help.

Fine motor skills

Fine motor skills are essential for children's development of writing and drawing

Fine motor skills guide small hand and finger movements that enable children to write and draw, as well as manipulate buttons and zippers, as well as tying their shoes. When these skills are under developed, results can include decreased independence, academic performance, and self-confidence. We work with children and their families as well as school staff, using proven techniques to improve fine motor skills. Whether your child's school has identified fine motor problems or you've encountered them yourself, we can help.

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Our OT's at Simply OT aim to help kids play, improve their school performance, and help them engage in their various daily activities. This hugely contributes to boosting their self-esteem and results in a sense of accomplishment. We offer treatment in various settings including schools, hospitals and on an outpatient basis, and are contracted with majority of medical aid schemes.

Good handwriting is an essential life skill and a cornerstone of academic success.

Handwriting requires visual coordination, core strength, fine motor skills, hand strength, and more. If your child has sloppy handwriting, has difficulty correctly forming letters or has trouble properly holding a pencil, they may benefit from OT for handwriting problems.

Even with all of the technology available today, handwriting is still a vital skill. Not everything is electronic, and the skills and muscles used in writing also come into play in other activities. Identifying problems early on can help to correct them before more serious issues or bad habits develop. Good handwriting takes time and practice.

Whether your child's school has determined that your child's handwriting is below par for his or her age and stage, or you have noticed such difficulties yourself, we can help.

How do you know if you need to reach out?

Parents contact us for a variety of reasons related to handwriting, but some of the more common difficulties that may contribute include:

Difficulty remembering how to write letters or copy from books or the blackboard
Poor spacing and placement of letters and words
Discomfort when holding a pencil for long periods of time
Weak fine motor skills, hand strength and dexterity
Unwillingness to do homework or poor completion
Difficulty concentrating or poor behaviour in class, poor performance in the playground and avoiding playing outside
Excessive fatigue after short periods of writing

Our assessment process allows our occupational therapist to determine the nature of your child's writing difficulties and the reasons for them. Once identified, we can work with you and your child to come up with a plan to address the issue.

The ability to process what you see is important, but so is the ability to respond with meaningful hand and body movements.

We regularly support schools and parents concerned about this important component, an essential component in a child's development to maturity and independence. Whether your child's school has identified a visual perception problem or you have concerns yourself, we can help.

How do you know if you need to reach out?

Here are some of the most common reasons they come to us with visual concerns:

Problems remembering alphabets or other sequences
Left-right confusion

Our assessment process allows our occupational therapist to determine the nature of your child's visual perceptual impairment and the cause. Once identified, we can work with you and your child to develop a plan to address the issues. Through our assessment, we will identify the specific cognitive areas your child struggles with and the causes of these problems so that we can plan a targeted treatment program.

Some of the most common areas that we would expect to be working on are:

Visual memory
Sensory processing
Focusing on an object against a busy background (figure ground perception)
Understanding the relationship of objects within an environment

We are passionate about seeing children reach their potential by helping them overcome some of the challenges that come with growing up.

Helping children develop independence and confidence

Learning how to perform basic tasks like dressing, brushing teeth, and using cutlery are important steps on thepath to independence. We regularly support parents and school staff with regard to the care of their children’s development. When we help children learn these skills, we often see improvements in other areas of development, including their academic and behavioral progress. Whether your child's school has expressed concerns or you have noticed them having difficulties at home, we're here to help.

How do you know if you need to reach out?

Some of the more common reasons parents/teachers reach out include:

Avoiding certain tasks
Changes in behavior at certain times of the day such as bathing
Difficulty using cutlery or other basic tools
Problems wearing pants shirts, especially with buttons or zippers
Overly dependent on adults, siblings or friends

Our assessment process allows our occupational therapist to determine the nature of your child's difficultiesand the reasons for them. Once identified, we can work with you and your child to come up with a plan to address the issue. We flexibly meet the needs of your child and your family and offer a comprehensive intervention designed to ensure that you and your child see measurable improvements.

We aim to equip children who are struggling with class participation and friendships due to shyness or low self-esteem, with the skills and confidence they need to function.

Children's confidence informs their relationships and development both in and out of school. We regularly talk to parents and school staff aboutchildren who find it difficult to attend classes and make friends, due to shyness or low self-esteem.

Supporting these children means giving them the skills and confidence they need to participate in daily tasks. We often observe that progress in this area then leads to improvement in many other areas, including academic performance and behavior at school and at home. We all endure hardships that test our confidence, but ultimately build our character, and these experiences are an especially important a child's development. However, for some children, excessive shyness or lack of confidence can hinder their development towards adulthood.

Whether your child's school has determined that they are struggling with self-confidence or you have noticed the difficulties yourself, we can help.

How do you know if you need to reach out?

Some of the most common signs to engage in occupational therapy include:

Difficulty forming and maintaining friendships in and out of school
Reluctance to attend school or play with friends alone
Difficulty interacting with adults outside of direct family circles such as teachers or family friends
Behaviour problems caused by the child's frustration with perceived exclusion

Our assessment process allows our occupational therapist to determine the nature of your child's confidence difficulties and their reasons. Once identified, we can work with you and your child to come up witha plan to address the issue.

Some of the more popular areas we work on include:

Thinking positively and making choices
Relationships and friendships
Taking turns and sharing
Communication appropriate eye contact
Coping with setbacks and challenges
Working with parents and schools to ensure that appropriate approaches to confidence building continue even when the therapist is not present.

Gross motor skills are the foundation of a child's developmental milestones

Gross motor skills are a prerequisite for a child's progress in school, as well as their ability to play and be independent. Difficulty with these skills is often the cause of awkward or uncoordinated movements, leading to problems with everyday tasks like getting dressed, running, or riding a bike. We regularly assist parents and schools concerned with a child's difficulty with classroom or playground activities due to gross motor problems. Our practical advice helps them develop abilities and confidence in all areas of everyday life. Whether your child's school has identified gross motor problems or you have noticed these problems yourself, we can help.

How do you know if you need to reach out?

Childhood development is complex and not all children will move at the same pace, but some of the most common reasons parents will contact us with concerns about their child's gross motor skills include:

Poor walking or running posture
Clumsy movements, which may be associated with a higher risk of accidents
A dislike or avoidance of physical activity and games
The child gets tired quickly after participating in physical activities for only a short time
Crouched, hunched forward posture in a sitting position during tabletop activities
Difficulty when performing activities that involve a sequence of physical movements, such as jumpingover obstacles or hopscotch

Our assessment process allows our occupational therapist to determine the nature of your child'sdifficulties with motor skills and the reasons for them. Once identified, we can work with you and your child to come up with a plan to address the issue. Through our assessment, we will identify the specific gross motor skills your child is having difficulty with and the source of these difficulties, which will allow us to plan a targeted treatment program.

Some of the more common areas we expect to work on are:

Balance and coordination
Strength and endurance
Attention and alertness
Body awareness
Planning
Sensory processing

Fine motor skills are essential for children's development of writing and drawing

Fine motor skills guide small hand and finger movements that enable children to write and draw, as well as manipulate buttons or zippers. When these skills are under developed, results can include decreased independence, academic performance, and self-confidence.

We work with children and their families as well as school staff, using proven techniques to improve fine motor skills. Whether your child's school has identified fine motor problems or you've encountered them yourself, we can help.

Child development is complex and notall children will move at the same speed, but some of the most common reasons parents will contact us with concerns about motor skills are:

Clumsy or immature pencil grip
Messy or slow writing, drawing or coloring
Excessive fatigue after a short period of writing, drawing, or typing
Difficulty using scissors or real performing precise operations such as buttoning, zipping or tying
Trouble performing self-care tasks independently
Reluctance to engage in tasks that require hand-eye coordination, such as building legos.

How do you know if you need to reach out?

Childhood development is complex and not all children will move at the same pace, but some of the most common reasons parents will contact us with concerns about skills their child's gross motor skills include:

Poor walking or running posture
Clumsy movements, which may be associated with a higher risk of accidents
A dislike or avoidance of physical activity and games
The child gets tired quickly after participating in physical activities for only a short time
Crouched, hunched forward posture in a sitting position during tabletop activities
Difficulty when performing activities that involve a sequence of physical movements, such as jumping over obstacles or hopscotch

Our assessment process allows an occupational therapist to determine the nature of your child's fine motor difficulties and the reason for them. Once identified, we can work with you and your child to come up with aplan to address the issue. Through our assessment, we will identify the specific fine motor skills your child has difficulty with and the source of these difficulties, which will allow us to plan a targeted treatment program.

Some of the more common areas we are expected to work in include:
hand dominance

Bilateral integration
Finger isolation
Hand and finger strength

Helping children develop the building blocks necessary for play and independence.

Balance and coordination go hand in hand in child development.

Poor balancing and coordination is a common reason children may have difficulty with everyday activities such as dressing, using cutlery, riding a bike, running or playing sports. We regularly help children with balance and coordination problems, and through collaborative assessment, treatment and/or counselling, we ensure improvements in every area of their daily lives including school, family and play.

Whether your child's school has determined that they have balance and coordination problems, or you have noticed such difficulties yourself, we can help. When children have developmental difficulties, being proactive and early intervention will minimize the impact on children's confidence and self-esteem.

How do you know if you need to reach out?

Child development is complex and not all children will progress at the same rate, but some of the most common reasons parents will contact us include:

Lack of coordination in gross motor skills during running, jumping and climbing (often demonstrated by not enjoying going to the park or playing outside)
Difficulties with handwriting, or using stationary such as like pencils or scissors
Slow development of skills for more complex tasks such as swimming or riding a bicycle
Problems at school relating to completing work or participating in sports
Reduced confidence and self-esteem related to physical activity in the playground

Our assessment process allows for our occupational therapist to identify where your child's difficulties lie as well as the reasons for them. Once identified, we can work with you and your child to put in place a plan to address them.

Through our assessment we will identify the specific areas of balance and coordination that your child is struggling with, and the source of these difficulties, allowing us to plan a targeted treatment programme.

Some of the most common areas that we would expect to be working on include:

Strengthening of the core muscles in the trunk and upper limb
Development of stamina during physical activity
Exercises to improve visual perception
Improving sensory processing, to ensure the body is receiving and interpreting correct information from their muscles about their position, speed and force