Outreach - Traveling Paediatric OT/PT Services

INFORMATION     SERVICES     REFERRALS     COSTS    

Our goal is to provide specific solutions for sucess in learning and movement programming.

INFORMATION

Are you able to meet the needs of your chronic health/physically disabled students? Many school districts across the province do not have the resources to employ OT/PT services as part-time or full-time positions for children with disabilities, therefore, they go without.

OT/PT is an essential service required by chronic health (CH) students. The Ministry of Education's Special Education Manual states that schools can access $13,000 for each student who meets the criteria for Chronic Health categorization to support that student's academic program. Together we have over 25 years of school-based experience as paediatric occupational and physical therapists working with children with special needs. We can provide an outreach service in your area. As members of your educational team, out professional training can help your students maximize their academic potential.

Accessing our services may support your efforts in securing Educational Supplemental Funding. In the past 5 years, we have assisted School District No. 46 on the Sunshine Coast in attaining a 3 fold increase in Chronic Health categorization and funding.

The criteria for CH categorization are as follows:
1. The student must have a medical diagnosis from a doctor documenting a disability or chronic     health impairment and it's impact on academic performance.
2. A current IEP must be in place.
3. Other services (such as OT/PT) must be provided in addition to regular, school-based Special     Education.

What we offer:


Identify students with our OT/PT Checklist

Standardized and Clinical Assessments

  • determine the degree of gross/fine motor
        delay or dysfunction
  • determine age equivalency and highlight areas     of need for programming


    • Evaluation/Reporting
  • fast, efficient results - same visit service
  • assessments, formal reports, handouts, record
        keeping, correspondence, training certificates


    • Recommendations
  • collaboration with families, community health
        and educational professionals
  • specific solutions for success in learning and
        movement programming


    		•
    Inservice Training for special education staff, teachers and family:
  • Gross Motor Skills and Programs
  • Fine Motor Skills and Programs
  • Sensory Integration
  • Kindergarten Screening
  • Lift and Transfer Training
  • Chronic Health Conditions


    • Referrals/Consultation
  • liaise and advocate with other agencies and
        health professionals with respect to:

    •      - physical access to school
         - equipment/desk needs and modifications
         - methods to support adapted curriculum
         - maximum potential for participation in
           as many school activities as possible
         - pre-vocational analysis

    Follow-up
  • minimum 1 follow-up visit recommended


    • PEDIATRIC PHYSIOTHERAPY
    A student may be referred to Physiotherapy (PT) when he/she has difficulty in one or more of the following areas:

  • Range of motion
  • Strength
  • Endurance
  • Abnormal movements (clumsy, awkward,
        tremulous)
  • Delayed gross motor skills (jumping, hopping,
        running ball skills, stairs)
  • Balance and/or coordination
  • Physical education inclusion
  • Lifts and transfers
  • Maintaining ambulation or mobility


    • Standardized Assessments Used:

  • Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
        (Gross Motor )
  • Peabody Developmental Motor Scales
        (Gross Motor )
  • Movement ABC
  • Gross Motor Function Measure


    • All students receive a standard physiotherapy and occupational therapy clinical evaluation.



    PEDIATRIC OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
    A student may be referred to Occupational Therapy (OT) when he/she has difficulty in one or more of the following areas:

  • Sensory integration (modulating or filtering
        sensory input)
  • Delayed fine motor skills (pencil grasp, scissor
        skills, manipulating small objects)
  • Visual processing skills
  • Handwriting (speed, quality or ability to copy
        information) is discrepant with verbal skills
  • Directionality, spatial concepts, and
        organizational skills
  • Attention/concentration deficits
  • Transition to community and/or work
        integration


    • Standardized Assessments Used:

  • Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
        (Fine Motor )
  • Peabody Developmental Motor Scales
        (Fine Motor )
  • Gardner Test of Visual Perceptual Skills
        (non-motor)
  • Visual Skills Appraisal Test
  • Pre-Vocational Assessment (SAOF)


    • Students may require OT/PT services on a short term basis or for the duration of their school enrolment.


    REFERRALS

    Use the enclosed Occupational and Physio Therapy Checklist to assist in determination of appropriate referrals. If deemed appropriate, send accompanying documentation with the following forms (consent and referral) to Sunshine Coast Occupational Therapy Inc. for intake processing. An OT and PT standardized and clinical assessment will document the degree of fine and gross motor delays and sensory processing difficulties, and can assist the family physician in diagnosis and making specialist referrals.
  • School Aged Checklist Occupational and Physical Therapy Services
  • Consent to Assess, Obtain and Release Information
  • Referral to Occupational Therapy

    • COSTS
    Phase 1 - Assessment
       $750
       This includes: data intake, assessments, analysis, program design, reports, consultation meeting
       with referral source, and intervention planning.

    Phase 2 - Intervention
       $100/hour
       This includes: program implementation, training, equipment trials, and team meetings.

    Phase 3 - Evaluation
       $100/hour
       This includes: re-assessments, and consultation.

    *Travel costs to Greater Vancouver area are $250; outside Vancouver
    travel costs determined upon request.