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Occupational Therapy
What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapy helps individuals develop the skills, confidence, and independence needed to participate in everyday life. This may include self-care, learning, play, social participation, work, and community involvement.
What Does an Occupational Therapist Do?
Occupational therapists (OT) assess the personal, environmental, sensory, physical, cognitive, and emotional factors that may impact daily functioning and participation. Using evidence-based, individualised interventions, OTs work collaboratively with individuals and families to achieve meaningful goals and improve overall well-being and quality of life.
Who We Support
We support children, adolescents, and adults who may experience challenges with:
Play, leisure, and meaningful activities
Participating in daily routines and self-care tasks
- Managing emotions, stress, and behaviour
- Attention, learning, work, and community participation
- Building social skills and relationships
- Confidence, independence, and life transitions
- Coordination and motor development
- Sensory processing and regulation
- Organisation, planning, and executive functioning
- Play, leisure, and meaningful activities
Areas of Occupation and Daily Participation
Occupational therapy can support participation in:
- Self-care / Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) – eating, dressing, toileting, hygiene, and personal care.
- Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) – shopping, meal preparation, financial management, home tasks, and community access.
- Education and learning
- Work and vocational participation
- Play and leisure activities
- Social participation and relationships
- Sleep and rest
Areas of Occupational Therapy Support
Supporting the processing and integration of sensory information, including tactile, vestibular, proprioceptive, visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, and interoceptive systems, which can impact regulation, attention, behaviour, and functional participation.
Social and Emotional Development
Developing skills related to co-regulation, self-regulation, emotional awareness, social understanding, relationship building, conflict resolution, and social play skills such as sharing and turn-taking.
Supporting attention, working memory, organisation, planning, problem solving, task initiation, self-monitoring, response inhibition, and cognitive flexibility.
Gross Motor Skills
Improving body awareness, postural control, balance, coordination, endurance, core strength, and overall motor stability.
Developing hand strength, dexterity, precision grasp, eye-hand coordination, and in-hand manipulation skills required for everyday tasks.
Visual Motor & Perceptual Skills
Supporting visual-spatial awareness, visual tracking, visual attention, visual memory, discrimination, figure-ground perception, visual closure, and form constancy.
Motor Planning (Praxis)
Supporting ideation, motor planning and sequencing, coordination, motor execution, and grading of movement and force for functional activities.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does an Occupational Therapist do? Occupational therapists help people develop skills and strategies to participate in everyday activities, including self-care, learning, work, play and community participation.
What can Occupational Therapy help with? Occupational Therapy may support sensory processing, fine and gross motor skills, executive functioning, visual-motor skills, motor planning, self-regulation and daily living skills.
Does Innerlink Therapy provide Occupational Therapy for children? Yes. Occupational Therapy is available for toddlers, children and school-aged students, as well as teenagers and adults.
Does Innerlink Therapy provide NDIS Occupational Therapy? Yes. Innerlink Therapy is a registered NDIS provider and accepts NDIA-managed, plan-managed and self-managed participants.
Where is Occupational Therapy available? Innerlink Therapy provides Occupational Therapy from its clinic in Belmore, Sydney, with services available to people in the surrounding Canterbury-Bankstown area.