Peoples Occupational Therapy London

12/04/2025

NEW FREE RESOURCE just uploaded focused on preparing for independent travel to secoundary school

School and Managing Exam Stress Resources Joining secondary school is a very exciting but also potentially nerve-wracking time for children and families. Whilst this transition can be challenging for many, children with neurodiversity in particular would benefit from some additional support and prep...

09/05/2023

We are passionate about evidence based practice at PEOPLES OT. Read Dr Teresa Joyce's peer reviewed research here
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/87565641.2023.2205139

01/03/2023

Support your child to develop independence in dressing in our online workshop. Learn Occupational Therapy techniques used to support people to develop new skills and how these can applied by you to support your child to develop their dressing skills.

Parent/Carer Training Upcoming parent/carer training events: Independent Dressing Skills 1 - March 22nd 2023 - 10:00 am GMT online - click here to bookInclusively designed training for parents of children with and without neurodevelopmental disorders to develop independence in dressing

27/02/2023

Tips for bike riding for those who can find it a little tricky. Let me know if you want more on bike riding specifically. This approach has been shown to support children with Developmental Coordination Disorder/ Dyspraxia learn to ride a bike 🚴‍♀️

26/02/2023

Is Sensory Processing Disorder a 'real' diagnosis? This can depend on what we mean by 'real'. The benefit of Occupational Therapy is that we work with everyone to support them to engage in activities they need and want to do irrespective of diagnostic thresholds.

If your child is having difficulties processing sensory information and this is impacting on their everyday life get in contact with us and see how we can help www.peoplesot.co.uk

25/02/2023

Diagnosed with autism and global development delay in his early years, Jason Arday was unable to speak until he was 11 years old and could not read or write until he was 18. Now aged 37, he is about to become the youngest black person ever appointed to a professorship at the University of Cambridge 💚

Sociologist Prof Jason Arday trained as a PE teacher before turning to academia.

25/02/2023

What can be the best form of exercise and fitness for those with motor difficulties such as Developmental Coordination Disorder/Dyspraxia?

For more individualised support or guidance contact us at www.peoplesot.co.uk

24/02/2023

22nd March 10am we are hosting a live online parent/carer training session on independent dressing skills. Inclusively designed for parents of those with and without neurodevelopmental disorders who are ready to develop greater independence with this skill. Click the link below to book your space ⬇️
https://peoplesot.co.uk/parent-and-carer-training

23/02/2023

What is Occupational Therapy? At PEOPLES OT we often hear 'but children don't have jobs...🤔'
Click the link below to find out exactly what Occupational Therapist do 👇

https://youtu.be/Vpn1wcwcmgg

In this video I discuss what an Occupational Therapists is and what we consider when we work with people. Please let me know what other videos you would like...

22/02/2023

For many parents a behavioural sleep intervention is appropriate for their family. However, the processs can be challenging for parents and as Occupational Therapists we are also focused on parental wellbeing. Below is a presentation and question and answer session chaired by our Director Dr Teresa Joyce with Dr Jacomine Muller focused on how we can support parents through behavioural sleep intervention. This is primarily aimed at therapists and students but might also be of intrest to the curious parent!

https://youtu.be/MHinsOkiKnI

With child sleep problems being so prevalent parents may turn to sleep interventions, aka "sleep training", to improve their children's sleep. However, paren...

22/02/2023

We now have FREE handwriting resources avaliable on our website. These are inclusively designed so are suitable for children with and without neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. Dyspraxia/Developmental Coordination Disorder, Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia).

Click the link below ⤵️
https://peoplesot.co.uk/middle-childhood-resources