Therapy

An individulised therapy plan will be developed during your first meeting with your therapist to ensure both child and family goals are identified and a team approach is fostered. Therapy can be delivered in home, school, kindergarten, childcare or clinic based.

Some of the common therapy services offered are listed below

Bimanual Therapy

For children who have unilateral cerebral palsy or hemipleagia, completing tasks that require two hands can be extremely difficult. During a bimanual therapy block, your child will learn to use their two hands more effectively together in tasks that require both hands. Hand roles will be developed using repetitive practice of these skills. Tasks will be modified throughout therapy blocks to ensure they remain challenging as skills progress.

Modified constraint-induced movement therapy

(M-CIMT)

M-CIMT may be offered to your child to increase awareness of the affected upper limb in unilateral cerebral palsy/ hemiplegia . During M-CIMT, unimanual toys and tasks are presented to your child’s more affected upper limb, while a glove/ mitten is worn on the child’s dominate hand.

Goal Directed Therapy

Specific intervention to target a particular task your child would like to complete or improve. Therapy is activity based and could involve a number of sessions working on your particular goal. Common goal include knife and fork use, dressing, cutting with scissors, tying shoe laces, meal preparation, dressing and hand writing.