Live & Love it - Children's Therapy

24/12/2025

We are closed from the 24th December to the 5th January for the team to spent time with their family and friends. We wish you the best Christmas break & look forward to seeing you all in the new year 🥰🎄🎅

22/12/2025

We took a trip to to celebrate our wonderful team and welcome two new therapists who will be joining us in January! 💕

05/12/2025

Supporting fine motor skills for pupils with Down Syndrome blog post by Ashleigh - Live & Love it OT in collaboration with DSUK - Positive About Down Syndrome ✏🌱

Practical strategies to build handwriting and tool-use skills for pupils with Down syndrome. Learn how environment, tools and activities support confidence and success.

01/12/2025

So we’ve thought about home and what might help to regulate, what about throughout the day at school??📚

⭐️ Regulation strategies will likely differ for everyone, explore specifics with your OT or contact us today!

Join Ale, one of our OTs, as she shows us some different ways of combining movement into our seating for school. 🪑

Vestibular and proprioceptive sensory input are often regulating for our nervous system, and great for combining into our routine in a proactive way!😌

❓Have you explored active seating with your school team?
❓What are some other methods of regulating at school that have been helpful for you?
Let us know in the comments!

28/11/2025

So, we know a bit more about regulation, now what do we do to maintain a just right regulation state or calm from a dysregulated state?🤔

⭐️ Regulation strategies will likely differ for everyone, explore specifics with your OT or contact us today!

Join Maddie, one of our OTs, as she shows us some different ways of using a gym ball to regulate at home!🤩

A gym ball is great for seeking deep tactile and proprioceptive sensory input, these systems are often regulating for the nervous system. 😌

❓Have you got a go to regulation strategy for home?
❓Have you explored more gym ball regulation strategies?
Let us know in the comments!

25/11/2025

We asked some of the LLI team what happens to them when they are feeling dysregulated 🤔

🧠To be ‘dysregulated’ means when your body and brain aren’t in sync with what you’re trying to do, like when you’re too fizzy to sit still to read a book, or sit at a desk.
We usually associate being dysregulated with when we are in a high nervous system arousal state, e.g. ‘fizzy’, ‘overwhelmed’ or emotions like nervous, overexcited, frustrated.
Being dysregulated impacts our ability to access productivity, leisure and personal care occupations - whether that’s an isolated moment or chronic dysregulation.
Sometimes we need help to regulate, through co-regulation and sometimes we can use tools or strategies to self-regulate.

👀 Look out for our next reels considering helpful strategies for home and school environments!🐧

❓What does a dysregulated state look like for you and your family?
❓What do you do when you are dysregulated?

22/11/2025

We asked some of the LLI team what a regulated state looks like for them🤔

🧠To be ‘regulated’ means to be in a nervous system arousal state that matches the activity you’re doing, your body and brain are balanced so that you can respond appropriately to the environment you’re in. This could be emotionally, socially, physically or cognitively.
You might most commonly associate being regulated with feeling calm, relaxed, ready to go.
We can co-regulate and self-regulate by using strategies when we are feeling dysregulated.

👀Look out for our next reel where we’ll think about dysregulation!🐧


❓What does a regulated state look like for you and your family?
❓What do you do when you are regulated?

19/11/2025

☕️ 🚀 Franke the coffee machine has landed!☕️ 🚀

As if we don’t have enough things in our kitchen already a little pre-christmas gadget for the team to enjoy in their breaks …

Excuse us whilst we all consume far too much coffee and hot chocolate! 😋

What’s your hot drink of choice ? 🤔 ☕️

06/11/2025

We invite the Live & Love it community to a brand new workshop for parents and guardians of children who are experiencing dysregulation that impacts their participation in daily Occupations (Activities).

Explore with us:
⭐️ What really is Occupational Therapy?
⭐️ The Person Environment Occupation (PEO) model of OT

And join us to:
⭐️ Be curious about why this might be?
⭐️ Explore amongst other things, the connection to sensory processing and integration
⭐️ Expand and feel confident in your toolkit of strategies.
⭐️ Meet other families with similar experiences of parenting to grow your supportive huddle!

🌟 Contact us to book! 🌟

🐧 The Huddle in Muddle to Huddle is based on the concept that penguins huddle to stay warm share their heat and conserve energy. They constantly rotate spending some time in the centre keeping warm (and supported) and other times on the outer edges providing the support.

🐧 We invite the Live & Love it community to be more like penguins; that is providing support when you/we have the capacity to do so and to benefit from the support (without guilt!) when you need it. Our therapy teams role in this is to facilitate conenction and build foundation knowledge.

🌟 Contact us to book! 🌟

25/10/2025

What to expect?❔Welcome to our room set up for a Parents & Guardians evening workshop 🥰

Take off your shoes, choose some refreshments, find a comfy spot and join the Live & Love it family! 🐧

Relaxed, jargon free and practical workshops 🧘‍♂️

Expand your toolkit, learn something new and connect with others with similar parenting experiences!

Next workshop 27th November 🗓️ Are you interested in joining?

11/10/2025

Our ninjakitchenuk air fryer has been well used the past few weeks during Life Skills sessions with the OTs 🤩

🧑🏻‍🍳Chicken nuggets, pizza, curry, lasagne just to name a few!

Cooking in an OT session has some great benefits, building motor and executive functioning skills as well as connection and regulation through food, fun and sometimes a bit of music! 🍝🎵

09/10/2025

Summer holiday beach fun may have come to an end now autumn is here but we can still get messy and explore our tactile system! 🍂 Wrap up and find a community mud kitchen or muddy park, baking & washing up 🫧, slime or play-dough making 🫟, what else can you think of❓Get your hands in and get messy together! ⭐️Don’t forget to keep a towel near by to clean up quickly if needed.