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​Our Community of Practice - Occupational Therapy Tips

Collated by our therapists, here you will find useful links to external websites, products and services that contain trusted advice in various areas of skill development. 
  • Regulation: Sensory + Emotions
  • Play
  • Developing Hand Skills
  • Self-Care Skills

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​Please note that any advice accessed via these links is is general in nature and is not professional advice relating to a child’s specific circumstances. If in doubt, seek professional advice.
Regulation: Sensory + Emotions​
Sensory Processing & Spiciness (booklet by Next Challenge)
Free Download: NC's Sensory Processing + Spiciness
Self-Regulation Research: A Simple overview
Blog: Self-Regulation Research - A Simple overview
Self-Regulation: A Parent’s Guide
Self Reg Parent Guide by Stuart Shanker
Learning Through Movement Modules
Learning Through Movement Modules
Blog: DIY calm down kits
The seesaw effect: building children’s resilience by emotional regulation | Jacqui Barfoot | TEDxUQ
TEDxUQ: The seesaw effect - Jacqui Barfoot
Shanker Self-Reg® Website
Shanker Self-Reg® Website
Anna Freud Mental Health Resources
Anna Freud Mental Health Resources
Young Minds - mental health resources
Play
Play + Early Learning Handouts, child reaching for foam blocks, DOT(WA) logo
Play + Early Learning Handouts
Play ideas, Play Group WA, child holds craft toy
Play ideas
Playdough recipe, Kids hands, multicoloured batches of playdough
Playdough Recipe
Craft Ideas, Craft Materials, Play Group WA
Craft Ideas
Enhancing Learning Turn On Learning Framework
Turn On Learning Framework
Self-care Skills
Early Living Skills Handouts, child in blue towel robe smiling and holding tooth brush
Early Skills For Living Handouts
Mob Smiles -  dental information for bubbas, teenagers, pregnant women, + elders.
Mob Smiles: Dental info
Blog: Teaching toileting through play
Blog: Teaching toileting through play
DOT WA Handout: Mealtimes
Mealtimes
DOT WA Handout Dressing Skills: Buttons
Dressing Skills: Buttons
DOT WA Handout: Dressing Skills: Zips
Dressing Skills: Zips
DOT WA Handout: Dressing: Putting on Tops
Dressing: Putting on Tops
DOT WA Handout: Dressing: Putting on Pants
Dressing: Putting on Pants
DOT WA Handout Brushing and Washing Hair
Hygiene: Brushing and Washing Hair
DOT WA Handout: Hygiene: Brushing Teeth
Hygiene: Brushing Teeth
DOT WA Handout: Routines: Getting Ready for Bed
Routines: Getting Ready for Bed
DOT WA Handout: Routines: Packing the School Backpack
Routines: Packing the School Backpack
Developing Hand Skills​​
Finger + hand strength activities, child picking up small items with tongs
Finger + hand strength activities
upper body strength + coordination activities, child climbing on playground
upper body strength + coordination activities
Shoulder stability + control activities, child writing on vertical whiteboard
Shoulder stability + control activities
Learning to cut, child holding scissors
Learning to cut
Tips for cutting, child cutting colourful paper
Tips for cutting
Learning to hold a pencil, child pencil grasp holding blue marker
Learning to hold a pencil
Learning to write, child sits at table writing with pencil
Learning to write
Drawing + Writing in Everyday Activities, child writing letters in sand
Drawing + Writing in Everyday Activities
Tips for Writing, child writing on lined paper
Tips for Writing
Hand strength playdough activities, child making playdough mountain
Hand strength playdough activities
Activities for Upper Body Strength, two children doing wheelbarrow walk
Activities for Upper Body Strength
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Next Challenge acknowledges (ana) Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country (Boodja) throughout Australia. We (Ngalak) are committed to honouring, seeing, and understanding (kootadjinong) their unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waterways (bilya), and seas (wardarn). 

​Next Challenge wants to thank and pay respects to the Whadjuk people and Elders, past, present, and emerging, of the Noongar Nation, who have preserved and protected the land (kanana) and waterways (bilya) on which we continue to play (waabiny), live (djooroobidiny), learn (kadadjiny), work, and provide services on today (yey).
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