Occupational Therapy

• 1 day per week from Advanced Occupational Therapist- sensory processing
  • Individual programmes for identified pupils with complex sensory processing difficulties
  • Monitoring group work to develop core stability and gross motor skills
  • Training for staff to continue and develop the above programmes
  • On-going consultancy support for tutors to incorporate sensory diet into classroom practice and utilise our active zones for identified pupils as appropriate
    • desensitisation strategies for tactile or auditory defensiveness
    • use of self-regulation strategies, relaxation activities, tactile cushions, fiddle toys, theraputty, access to active zones