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Mobile Occupational therapy for kids
Sarah Walter
Does you child face challenge in daily activities?
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy is working with people from all ages who face challenges in their daily activities.
Dressing up, listening attentively in school, writing, doing homework, brushing teeth, and play together with siblings or friends, the daily living is challenging kids in many activities. If a child has difficulties in daily activities, every day life might require a lot of energy and effort. The goal of occupational therapy is a satisfactory performance of everyday activities.
I work mainly with children and adolescents. Typical challenges might occur in:
Leisure Time
Playing, running, jumping, or climbing on a playground are important leisure time activities for kids, but they might be challenging for kids and adults might notice the child´s behavior is not “as usual”.
Writing, painting, or handling scissors require are other important activities, where there are especially fine motor skills required.
To enable the child in these activities and provide participation we work on the activities, train motor skills and adapt the environment.
Social Activites
Social behavior with friends, peers or siblings is not easy for every kid. Also in the interaction with adults it might be noticeable that the social behavior is different. Adults might notice avoiding behavior, no eye contact or aggressive behavior.
To improve these difficulties, we identify strengths and challenges of your child and work on concrete social activities and skills.
School and Preschool
School activities include writing, listen attentively, working independent on a task, doing homework and keep the working table organised. Many aspects influence the performance of your child´s school performance as own skills of the child, the environment and the task itself.
Together we identify challenges to reduce those and enable good learning and school performance.
Selfcare activities
Typical activities of selfcare are dressing independently, brushing the teeth, or going to toilet. In school or kindergarten they need to put shoes on or clean up, and keep the school bench organised. Difficulties in this fields might require a lot of energy from parents and caretakers.
Together with your child I train the course of action of challenging daily tasks to reduce barriers, improve skills and enable the child in this activities. Furthermore, the effort for parents and caretaker can be decreased.
My strengths
- Individual, client-centered and resource-oriented approach
- Home setting, directly there where the challenges occur
- Flexible in time and location
- Experience in the work with kids and occupational therapy with people of different ages and circumstances
- Best practice through my recently graduation in Vienna and Helsinki
Vision
- Wellbeing of your children and the whole family in daily living
- Support a good development of your child on a social, emotional and physical level and giving the children confidence in their daily tasks
- Effective collaboration between family, school and kindergarten
About me
My name is Sarah Walter, I am an occupational therapist who grew up in the Alps in Südtirol, Italy. After my double degree of occupational therapy in Vienna and Helsinki I am now self-employed to offer mobile occupational therapy for English and German families. Mobile occupational therapy means I go to your home, school or kindergarten-to the natural environment for my therapy.
I offer mobile therapy, to enable work in the daily natural setting, your home. There, where challenges of daily activities occur. Furthermore, I work in the German school in Helsinki as a school assistance and afternoon club instructor which enables me to work with the kids there in their every day life.
Here is my LinkedIn profile for more information about my curriculum vitae.
Organisation
I am working as a mobile occupational therapist, means I come to YOUR HOME, or school/kindergarten where the difficulties of daily life occur.
Therapy is build up as following:
- Initial assessment: Find out the challenges in daily activities
- Goals: We formulate together the goals for increasing the performing of activities of daily living
- Intervention: We work on the defined goals, training skills, training activities and work on and with the environment
- Evaluation: We evaluating the goals and see the change or see further steps
- Performing: Carrying out the activities with an increase of life quality for your family.
I am working as a light entrepreneur, so truster.fi is doing the financial aspect for the therapy.
- 60 minutes: 70€
+ 30 % home visit: 21€
- 60 minutes: 80€
+30% home visit: 24€
Link to the Valvira health profession register, where you find me with my name, Sarah Walter: https://julkiterhikki.valvira.fi/#
Every health professional has to be registered here to be able to practice the profession. (Finnish Law)
Contact
Give me a call, write a mail or leave a message here on the website.
Feel free to contact me, an initial phone consultation is free of charge!
mail@ergotherapiesarah.com
+358 403222315
