Making Sense Occupational Therapy is a family owned and operated OT practice that is concerned with promoting health and wellbeing to children, adolescents and adults through occupations.
All OT services are offered at the child’s home or school environment alongside the primary care giver or educational staff.
Assessment and treatment
At Making Sense Occupational Therapy, a range of standardized and non-standardized assessments are utilized.
The aim is to help make sense of children’s abilities and behaviour. From the information gained through consultation with the child’s parents, teachers and treating professionals and the assessment of specific skills, the child’s strengths and abilities form the basis of the functional goals that are set for treatment. We use the Co-Op framework to assist in problem solving everyday tasks.
The treatment goals may include any of the following:
Everyday routines such as getting ready in the morning, managing in the classroom and after school routine
Evening routine and getting to sleep
Attention and concentration
Sensory processing and sensory regulation
Gross and fine motor development and coordination
Visual perceptual and visual motor skills
Hand writing
Social and play skills including using Social Thinking
Emotional regulation
Management of anxiety and depression
Self regulation of activity and energy levels
Age appropriate everyday activities including self care, dressing (shoelaces), handwriting, social skills, managing anxiety, building relationships, sport and sleep
