Occupational Therapy Children & Young People
Professional
Occupational Therapy Children & Young People
Professional
We offer specialist services such as:
Neonatal
The Neonatal Occupational Therapy service offers follow up therapy for all babies born before 30 weeks gestation and babies born at term having had a difficult birth in NHS Lanarkshire.
The Occupational therapy service aims to provide a sensitive, individualised and family centred developmentally supportive intervention to support high-risk infants and their families.
Babies are assessed and early intervention provided in order to enhance the developmental outcome. Babies are also assessed at the Neurodevelopment clinic with a standardised assessment and follow up is offered until the infant is aged two years.
Upper Limb ServiceÂ
Occupational Therapy for Children and Young People provide a specialist upper limb service. We offer assessment, provision of targeted therapy, and splinting for children in Lanarkshire.
Specialist staff provide an upper limb surveillance protocol through the CPIPs (Cerebral Palsy Integrated Pathway for Scotland). This allows us to monitor the upper limb range of motion and occupational performance in children with cerebral palsy.Â
Children are assessed at clinic and advice and interventions are offered to help maintain and improve how they are able to use their hands together (bimanual hand use) and to carry out self -care skills and play (fine motor function).
Children are assessed at our splinting clinic and provided with upper limb orthosis (splints) for a variety of conditions to maintain and improve their function and fine motor skills.
Combined Assessment & Therapy Team
The Combined Assessment & Therapy (CAT) Team is a specialist service who provide a combined therapy approach for children living in Lanarkshire up to the age of 19 who have cerebral palsy or motor disorder.
Specialist staff provide Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech & Language Therapy. The service is based within Douglas Street, Community Health Clinic, where clinic sessions take place. The CAT Team also provide outreach in partnership with families and local therapists to enable the child to reach their potential. Outreach sessions will take place in settings appropriate to the child including home, school or nursery.
The CAT Team can support the development of skills such as:
- Movement / handling
- Play / hand skills
- Dressing / undressing and other activity of daily living skills
- Eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties
- Communication
Sources for reference are;
- Bliss Baby Charter (Bliss 2015)
- RCOT- OT in Neonatal services & Early intervention, Practice Guideline
- Sheridan M.D. (2007) 3rdedition From Birth to Five Years – Children’s Developmental Progress Routledge London
- Meggitt C (2006) Child Development – An Illustrated 2ndedition   Heinemann Oxford (birth – 16 years)
- Case-Smith J. (2010)Â Occupational Therapy for Children 6theditionElsevier Health Services
- Wilson E. (1998)Â Occupational Therapy for Children with Special Needs Whur Publishers
- Levitt S (2010)Â Treatment of Cerebral Palsy and Motor Delay 5theditionBlackwell Science
- Newman S (2008)Â Small Steps Forward 2ndeditionJessica Kingsley
- Cermack S (2001) Developmental Co ordination Disorders. Singular
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