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🌟 Independent Children’s Occupational Therapy
📍 Essex + nearby areas
🧸 Helping kids & young people build skills, confidence & independence

15/04/2026

✨ Great results for George ✨

We’ve been so pleased to see the progress George is making with his new Luca suit 🙌

Protecting and supporting body shape is so important for postural alignment, comfort and long-term health and it’s fantastic to see the impact the right support can have 💙

Our Paediatric Neuro OTs bring over 40 years of combined experience, using specialist knowledge to support each child’s unique physical and developmental needs.

Every child deserves to feel supported, comfortable and confident in their body 🌱

13/04/2026

✨ Introducing “Body Science” ✨

Laura has created her very first interoceptive folder for individual sessions with a college student starting next half term, and we LOVE the direction she’s taken 💡

By naming it Body Science, she’s tapped straight into this young person’s interests. Because when something feels meaningful and relevant, that’s where the real learning happens 🧠

But what actually is interoception?

Interoception is our ability to notice and make sense of signals from inside our body, things like hunger, thirst, temperature, pain, needing the toilet, or even recognising our emotions.

As OTs, we talk about this sense a lot…
✨ Some individuals may miss these internal signals
✨ Others may feel them very intensely
✨ And many need support to interpret what their body is telling them

Although interoception is still being explored within research, it’s long been recognised in occupational therapy as a key part of self-awareness, regulation, and participation in everyday life.

We can’t wait to see how Body Science supports this young person to build connection, understanding, and confidence in their own body 🔬

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10/04/2026

Your feedback means so much to us here at . We are always looking at how we can continue to improve, whether that is developing our own knowledge or refining the way we work with families.

One parent recently shared via our recent feedback questionnaires:

“Our OT has helped so much with reports, his EHCP, getting his specialist pram and his Blue Badge. The sensory diet has changed our lives as we now know how to support him.’

Hearing that families feel more confident, more supported and better equipped to meet their child’s needs is exactly why we do what we do.

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08/04/2026

Who loves Hamas beads? We do! 🫶🏼

Some lovely creations with our OT Helen this Easter. This little one is still hand swapping which happens when a child is still learning to cross midline, the skill that lets them reach one hand across the body smoothly and supports bilateral coordination skills, and skilling up a dominant hand and supporter hand. A very important developmental skill!

Even so, this little one is making great progress with pincer grip and in-hand manipulation, building the foundations for dressing, cutlery use, and handwriting as well as many other hand skills we use in everyday life.

Simple play and smart placement give so many chances to practise both midline crossing, and essential fine motor skills 👌🌸

07/04/2026

Sometimes the best OT sessions happen when you go with the flow.

Eating toast whilst decorating Easter egg decorations….absolutely! Simple, playful and functional moments that are meaningful to the child are what we are all about.

Because when children are engaged in something they enjoy and what they want to do, they are far more likely to practise new skills and join in without even realising they are “working”.

That is the magic of play-based OT.

Following their lead, keeping it meaningful and building skills through the things they love.

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26/03/2026

Happy 4th Birthday Arthur & Arlo 💛

Four years of these two… and we just had to celebrate them today.

Their start to life was a tough one – born early and cared for in two separate NICUs, in different hospitals. Something no parent ever plans for.

Charlotte & Aaron know that world not just as occupational therapists, but as parents too. That lived experience sits at the heart of what they bring to The Great Little OT Practice – a real understanding of those early days that you just can’t learn from a textbook.

And now here they are… four years on.
Full of life, personality, and doing their thing (including rocking The Great Little OT Practice merch like it’s made for them 😄).

A little nod today as well to the families who’ve had those early, wobbly starts – the hospital days, the unknowns, all of it.

But mostly… today is about these two.

Happy Birthday boys 🎉

25/03/2026

Feedback ✨

As a team, we recently invited the families of the children and young people on our individual caseloads to share their experiences of working with the OTs at , along with the level of service they have received.

Providing a high quality service is incredibly important to us, and we are always looking for ways to grow, refine, and do even better.

We have been truly blown away by the kind words shared 💜

23/03/2026

We really do love it when a child feels able to share their thoughts and feelings with us 💚 even if Aiden does think Aaron should get into jail 😅 Cheeky chops!

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Morton Road
Maldon
CM98QB

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http://www.thegreatlittleotpractice.co.uk/

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