Amanda Howard & Therapy Foundations for Education

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Therapy Foundations is a paediatric service providing Occupational Therapy and
Integrative Therapy. Our OT’s are Sensory Integration and Trauma Specialists
Our Integrative Therapist unifies a trauma informed therapeutic approach with somatic,
sensorimotor and talking therapy.

All our therapists are trained within neurological development, we take a bottom-up
approach to therapeutic intervention, exploring the ‘what happened’.

We support children who find education, socialising, sensory stimuli, motor and
processing tasks challenging. Using the Building Blocks Model, we help families to
recognise and understand children’s challenges, enabling them to become more
confident and successful with skills they need to:

  • Build secure attachments
  • Regulation
  • Processing
  • Motor tasks
  • Sensory development – Retained Primitive Reflexes, Vestibular, Proprioceptive,
    Interoception
  • Thinking and Reasoning skills
  • Communication and Social skills
  • Academic Achievement

We focus on individualised and personalised outcomes and the “what to do” as
determined by our assessment findings. After assessment and in subsequent sessions
parents are given intervention strategies to support regulation, communication and
neurological integration.

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We know what we do makes a real difference in peoples lives. Our staff are committed to going the extra mile we need your support so they can continue to make a difference.

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