Occupational Therapy Assessments

To identify strengths and challenges that individuals may experience in every day life

Areas assessed may include:

• Daily living/independence skills
• Gross and fine motor difficulties
• Perceptual difficulties
• Sensory difficulties
• Play and leisure skills
• Work related skills
• Social skills
• Behaviour and emotional regulation
• Attention/concentration

 Following an assessment the Occupational Therapist provides strategies and recommendations related to an individuals’ functional capacity. This may incorporate recommendations for interventions to enhance functional skills or to remediate areas of difficulty, and may include determination of need for equipment or assistive technology to improve function. 

What: 1:1 assessment and development of a written assessment report

Where: home, education, leisure, or child care settings, or any other settings as required

Referral pathway: Referrals can be made by various people: individuals, parents, therapists, consultants or advisors. If someone other than the individual or the parent is making the referral they then individual/parent/carer must be informed prior to the referral.

For further information, please contact Intake Advisor on 83796976 or aking@autismsa.org.au

Cost: Please confirm cost with Intake Advisor.