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Occupational Therapists (OTs) can help to provide meaningful engagement and fulfillment in all areas of daily life!
Assesment
To better understand your child’s strengths, challenges and determine goals for therapy sessions, assessment is the first step! This usually includes parent/caregiver interviews, questionnaires, and informal assessment and observations. Standardized assessments may also be when appropriate.
Direct In-Person Therapy
By utilizing your child’s strengths and interests, we follow a play-based approach to therapy sessions. We aim to build rapport with your child first using the 3 Cs’s – choice, control and connection. Only then can true meaningful learning, growth and change occur. Parent involvement is essential to helping your child transfer and learn to apply these skills at home and in their own lives.
Parent Consultation Sessions
Sometimes parents need someone to listen. Someone to empathize and help them see the blocks or validate to the feelings and challenges they are experiencing while raising their child. Parent only consultation sessions can be highly effective to discuss and educate parents so they can see their child through “softer eyes” and empower them with the knowledge, skills, strategies and resources they need to be the best parent they can be!
School Based OT Services
Shawna and her team are highly skilled and experienced and passionate about working with children that are at a critical age and stage of their development. We partner with Early Childhood Service (ECS) programs in and around Calgary to support, guide and bring fun and playful strategies to classrooms for children that have qualified for OT support through Alberta Education.
Safe and Sound Protocol
Shawna is a Safe and Sound Certified Provider. The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) is a powerful and innovative listening therapy designed to reduce hearing sensitivity and help regulate and build resilience in the autonomic nervous system. Five Hours of music with long-lasting impact. It is specially filtered music program that helps us reach the parts of the brain that need regulating for improved behavior and emotional control.
Weekly in-person clinic sessions are required for the duration of the program with optional at-home listening sessions at the discretion of the provider.
Community Support and Education
To learn is to teach and to teach is to learn! Shawna provides engaging and evidence based educational opportunities virtually and in-person on a variety of topics. She strives to individualize presentations to meet the needs of the group and will provide practical strategiesand resources that participants can take away and use in their own lives the next day!