Children’s Occupational Therapy
We offer a range of assessment and support options to help your child and you. Our specialists can work collaboratively as a team or stand-alone if only one of our services is needed.
Each option has been carefully created to help you see the scope of what we offer, which can guide you to decide what is right for your child and you. We will, of course, explain our roles in greater detail and talk you through any queries when you make contact with us.
Also available:
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Assessments
Autism Advocacy & Support
Parent & Family Support
NNT Bitesize
Children’s Occupational Therapy Developmental & Sensory Processing Assessments
We provide tailored assessments to identify and meet your child’s developmental needs. You can choose from three different packages.
Package One
A full assessment of all aspects of your child’s developmental and sensory processing needs (if necessary). Outcomes will be immediately fed back to you and your child’s school at a meeting or at a time to better suit you, followed by provision of a thorough written report with recommendations.
Should you choose this package, a complimentary telephone call, up to three months post assessment will be included.
This package of support can be used to support and inform the EHCP process.
Package One Abridged
This assessment can be reduced in cost if a summary email of the findings is requested instead of a full report.
Package Two
This package has five shorter options, please choose one only from the following:
01 An assessment of your child’s motor co-ordination and functional skills, with feedback meeting, written report and recommendations
02 An assessment of your child’s sensory processing skills including a classroom observation, with feedback meeting, written report and recommendations.
03 An assessment of the developmental and functional skills your child needs to master for appropriate handwriting and participation in the classroom, with feedback meeting, written report and recommendations.
04 An assessment of the developmental, sensory and functional skills your child needs to master at nursery/pre-school level, with feedback meeting, written report and recommendations.
05 An assessment of the functional and environmental impact of any form of physical disability with feedback meeting, written report and recommendations.
Package Two Abridged
Any of these options can be reduced in cost if a summary email of the findings is requested instead of a full report.
Package Three
Assessments and written recommendations specifically for:
Seating
Toileting
Dressing
Using cutlery
Accessing school/college
Visual Perception
Organisational skills
Concentration
Sitting still
Participating in hobbies/clubs
Children’s Occupational Therapy Interventions
In addition to our assessment options, we offer regular Occupational Therapy interventions.
The areas we can help with are likely to have been identified as goals in your child’s assessment report, or can be selected from the following list.
If there is a skill not mentioned that you would like us to help your child to work towards or to achieve, then please let us know.
Improved gross motor skills
Improved fine motor skills
Improved handwriting
Improved organisational skills
The preparation for the start of school (primary or secondary)
The development of a sensory diet
Improved dressing skills
Improved interoception for toileting
Improved cooking skills
Bike riding skills
Improved budgeting skills
Improved time management
Improved self care skills
Ongoing support with an Occupational Therapist (equivalent of a term)
Five sessions with your child to work on one of the areas you feel would be most beneficial (delivered weekly or fortnightly).
Support will include liaison with you/school at the time of the visit, goal setting after the first session, resource/activity preparation for each session, and a summary report at the end.
Ongoing support with an Occupational Therapist (shorter block)
Three sessions with your child to work on one of the areas you feel would be most beneficial (delivered weekly or fortnightly).
Support will include liaison with you/school at the time of the visit, goal setting after the first session, resource/activity preparation for each session, and a summary report at the end.
Support with our Trainee Occupational Therapist (equivalent of a term)
Five sessions with your child to work on one of the areas your child’s Occupational Therapist feels would be most beneficial (delivered weekly or fortnightly).
Support will include liaison with you/school at the time of the visit, goal setting after the first session, resource/activity preparation for each session, and a summary report at the end.
Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) Outcomes & Goal Setting
For children we already know, we are sometimes asked to provide Outcomes which will form part of EHCP provision.
This option allows us to visit your child/you to ensure their voice is captured in the advice we offer.
EHCP Outcomes in addition to any assessment
If we are asked to provide EHCP Outcomes at the time of our assessment, then an additional hour is charged.
EHCP statutory visits
We support many children who have been awarded an EHCP. This provision requires careful monitoring which, if included in the EHCP, becomes a statutory role. There could be three or six visits per year depending on the recommendations in the Outcomes.
Attendance at an EHCP Annual Review or Team Around the Child (TAC) meeting Charged after the meeting and pro rata
To include advance reading of all paperwork in preparation, as well as attendance at the meeting itself. This option is relevant for those children who have an EHCP or where specialist support at a meeting is required.
Let us reframe your child’s future, today
Now, Next & Then provides the very best collaborative working, with the highest standard of professional integrity, to ensure quality support for everyone.
There are no hidden costs.
Our travel time and expenses are not charged.
Now, Next & Then is exempt from VAT.