BCHC Children's Occupational Therapy

22/09/2025

Birmingham's Local Offer Website has a wealth of information on what is happening in the city. You can find information on activity clubs, libraries, days out and leisure activities.
Taking part in activities help to develop a wide range of skills needed by your child or young person.
Have a look at the Birmingham Local Offer website today to see what you can find!

17/09/2025

On 9th October, we will be attending the Grow SEND Community Day! Along with lots of other organisations, we will be there to chat to families about our service or answer any quires and give advice and support where we can. If you are available to attend, please book via the links in the post.

Hope to see you there!

17/09/2025

SEND Occupational Therapy also have more online training available for settings. Book your place at these FREE online training sessions through our Eventbrite. We can't wait for you to join us and learn more about how to support the young people in your setting 😀

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/bchc-send-occupational-therapy-team-58871323623

16/09/2025

SEND Occupational Therapy now have even more online training available for families. Book your place at these FREE online training sessions through our Eventbrite. We can't wait for you to join us and learn more about how to support the young people in your lives 😀

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/bchc-send-occupational-therapy-team-58871323623?msockid=01d8027c51996e673d6e142b50946fe3

15/09/2025

📢📢BIRMINGHAM MAINSTREAM SECONDARY SCHOOLS📢📢

Our SEND Occupational Therapy Team are looking for potential Secondary School hosts for our upcoming training. If you have a space in school and can facilitate up to 30 people and you are interested in our training, do get in touch

15/09/2025

15/09/2025

15/09/2025

📣📣CALLING ALL BIRMINGHAM FAMILIES 📣📣

SENSORY CIRCUITS TRAINING!!

This training has been developed to help families understand what a sensory circuit is, how a child or young person may benefit from using a sensory circuit and demonstrating how you may set up a sensory circuit within the home environment. This academic year, SEND Occupational Therapy's training is tailored to early years and primary school aged children as well as another session focused on secondary aged children. You can now book places on Eventbrite (link in the comments and available in our Linktree). More training is coming up in the coming weeks for families so please, like, share and follow to keep up to date with what is coming up!

12/09/2025

Having trouble with potty training? ERIC has launched a new web chat service to support parents and carers navigating this journey with their child. Ask us anything to do with potty training!

Access via the potty training page here: https://eric.org.uk/potty-training/

It's open 10am - 2pm, Mondays and Tuesdays at the moment.

05/09/2025

The Tour of Britain 2025 is this week and it's the perfect time to join in by doing your own bike ride! If your young person can't already ride a bike, here are some top tips for learning.

Children learn to ride a bike at various ages however for some children it can be more difficult. Here are some examples of children who may need support:
🚲 Children with delayed motor skills
🚲 Children with co-ordination or motor-planning difficulties
🚲 Children with low muscle tone or altered muscle tone

To support a child to have fun and be a safe cyclist:

🚲 Make sure your child has a well-fitting helmet
🚲 Set the seat height so it is right for your child; their feet should be flat on the ground when seated
🚲 Rather than using stabilisers, it is strongly recommended that you remove the pedals so that your child can learn to balance by scooting along using their feet to push against the ground.
🚲 Before your child learns to cycle, teach them to walk along in a straight line whilst holding onto the handle- bars, with the bike on their right-hand side. hen they can do
this, teach them to use both brakes to stop the bike suddenly on command.
🚲 Teach your child how to pick the bike up when it is lying on the ground. Inevitably they will need to do this at times, and again, this will help them learn how to manage the bike’s weight.
🚲 Make it a fun experience

You can read more about this and support with other leisure activties on our website:
https://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/paediatric-occupational-therapy-leisure

04/09/2025

AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS - With back to school approaching next week, it provides an opportunity to see what is going on within your child or young person's setting and elsewhere. Extra-curricular opportunities such as sports, craft, Lego and other groups not only in school provide an opportunity to develop underlying skills such as fine and gross motor skills, social skills and so much more that can overlap into daily skills that your child needs to develop their independence. So this week, try and find out what your school has to offer but also have a look on Birmingham's SEND Local Offer website at https://www.localofferbirmingham.co.uk/leisure/ to find out what is on offer for your family. #