Hessel Group's Occupational Therapy (OT) services are offered in South Australia and Western Australia for people of all ages and is an approved NDIS provider. Our OT team is headed up by Senior Occupational Therapist, Sarah who is based in South Australia and Margaret who is based in Perth, Western Australia.
This flexible service can be accessed in a community setting that is individualised to each client. Sessions are typically an hour long, but the nature and frequency of these sessions is shaped with reference to each client’s needs. Occupational therapists strive to assist individuals of all abilities to live as independently and meaningfully as possible. This is accomplished by identifying both short and long-term goals in collaboration with clients, and utilising various strategies to achieve these goals. These goals are re-assessed regularly to ensure progress is being made. Hessel Group’s occupational therapy services specialise in helping clients living with physical, psychosocial, sensory, and cognitive disabilities.
Occupational therapists work to identify areas of strength and difficulty to administer interventions that are evidence-based. Their goal-based approach helps to enhance the quality of life for their clients. They create practical and realistic solutions and adapt to changing circumstances and lifestyle changes as required. Their sessions are designed to be engaging, motivating and enjoyable, to get the most out of each client.
OUR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS CAN ASSIST CLIENTS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
- Gross motor skills - movements and actions that use larger muscle groups and body parts.
- Fine motor skills - movements and actions that use smaller muscles and body parts and often require precision and dexterity.
- Sensory processing - how we receive and process information from our environment and react to this information.
- Functional cognition - how an individual utilises and integrates their thinking and processing skills to accomplish everyday activities in clinical and community living environments. Numerous mental skills that allow to master learning including skills such as working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control of focus, concentration and attention.
- Emotional regulation - the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions as well as the ability to delay spontaneous reactions as needed.
- Parent collaboration strategies - promoting for enhancing children's performance and criticism for reproducing educational inequality between parents, therapists and client goals.
- Social skills - targeting self-regulation skills to better manage social situations.
- Daily living & functional life skills - the skills we utilise to physically care for ourselves, such as cooking and feeding ourselves, dressing, toileting, etc.
- Incontinence training - the ability to train bladder and bowel control and assess the individuals’ function.
- Sleep - identifying barriers and challenges to maintaining healthy sleep and developing strategies to improve the quality of sleep.
- Leisure or play skills – working on activities and skills that are meaningful, including leisure and play.
Sarah & Margaret providing professional and experienced Occupational Therapy for our valued clients and their families.
If you live in South Australia or Western Australia and are looking for an NDIS Approved Provider for Occupational Therapy, contact our friendly team today for a discussion about your needs. Click the button below or phone 08 8462 0222.