Our occupational therapy services provide family-centred care. We work with families in their homes, within the community including daycares and preschools and in our therapy environment at Laichwiltach Family Life Society. Occupational therapists work with children towards family identified goals through playful interactions, grading the activities so that the child can succeed. Occupational therapy service is geared toward an increase in social participation, self-regulation and developing motor skills. Early involvement leads to greater outcomes for the family and child.

Services are provided to aboriginal children birth to school age in the following areas:

• Gross and fine motor development (jumping, climbing, balancing, opening containers, zippers, drawing, scissor skills, hand strength)
• Development of pre-printing skills (how to hold a pencil, copying and imitating shapes and lines)
• Attention and organization (tools and supports for listening and learning)
• Body awareness, body scheme (understanding personal space, knowing where our bodies are in the environment)
• Low muscle tone, muscle strength
• Picky eating and development of feeding skills
• Motor planning and coordination (clumsy)
• Self-care skills (dressing, grooming, toileting)
• Visual perceptual skills and spatial awareness skills
• Global developmental delays
• Self-regulation (labeling and identifying emotions, exploring calming strategies)
• Sensory processing (understanding individual differences in how we process the information in the world around us- noise, touch, visual, body sensations)