Future Footprints Occupational Therapy

Future Footprints Occupational Therapy (FFOT) aims to develop individual skills and achieve greater independence through supported participation in activities. The Occupational Therapist works with the child and their family, to create a program according to the child's individual strengths, challenges and goals. Services may include:
- Fine and gross motor strengthening
- Improved coordination

and positioning
- Improved sensory processing (touch, smell, taste, visual,
sound)
- Behavioural management through strategies such as Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)
- Self-esteem and anxiety management
- Everyday task training e.g. washing hands, brushing teeth, dressing etc. FFOT also provides advice and educates parents and families, as well as staff at kindy's and schools, on what assistance they can provide to facilitate their child's progress. FFOT can be claimed under:
- National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
- Better Start
- Medicare provider with various claiming options including
Private Heath (available for eligible children)