Tygerberg Hills Occupational Therapy

09/10/2025

09/10/2025

30/09/2025

The primary strategy for successful treatment in Occupational Therapy is to observe the little clients carefully and constantly adapt the implemented strategies to the improvement.

When starting the therapy process a baseline is established by evaluating and understanding the underlying causes to select the appropriate treatment.

Fators taken into consideration are:

*Pregnancy/Birth history
*Physical Development
*Emotional Development
*Communication/Speech Development
*Motor Development
*Functional Movement Patterns
*Environmental factors
incl. leisure activities/habits
*Social skills
*Cognitive Skills
*Visual Skills
*Established compensatory mechanisms
*Reflex Patterns
*Sensory Processing
*Medical history/records
*Scholastic performance

We need to understand the whole child, their history and their environment to be sure we are helping them in the best possible way.

30/09/2025

23/09/2025

Science can now show what frustrated parents and teachers have observed: Today’s children and adolescents spend too much time in digital environments, and it changes their brains.

22/09/2025

22/09/2025

A child’s balance may not seem very important for learning development, however...https://ilslearningcorner.com/balance-system-connected-to-learning/

21/09/2025

👊 When siblings fight, it can feel exhausting — but it’s not a sign that you’ve failed as a parent.

Fights are actually practice:
✨ Learning how to problem-solve
✨ Managing big emotions
✨ Building empathy
✨ Repairing relationships

Your role isn’t to referee every moment, but to guide them calmly and model how conflict can be handled with respect.

💡 Next time it gets noisy, remember — this is learning in action.

📖 For more strategies like this, check out my book Guidance from The Therapist Parent: www.thetherapistparent.com

21/09/2025

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14/09/2025