OT ADHD Coaching
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How do these OT services help families with ADHD?:
Involve using approaches that focus on understanding & addressing factors underlying the difficulties:
These services can be eligible for health benefits & funding:
1) Check to see if your health benefits plans include coverage for occupational therapy.
2) FSCD funding eligible-ask your FSCD worker about possibility of funding for these OT services.
3) Eligible as medical expense for end-of-year income tax deductions.
- Sessions with parents & children/teens, so everyone learns together (with a focus on parent coaching).
- Children/teens learn about their ADHD brains, which helps them understand their ADHD strengths & challenges, which can foster greater self-esteem and resilience.
- Services tailored to support unique needs of child, family, based on your chosen goals.
- Parents learn to understand their child's struggles rather focusing on the behaviour challenges.
- Parents & children learn how to be "detectives" figuring out what has been getting in the way.
- Various strategies are discussed and explored for addressing what has been getting in the way.
- Parents & children develop better communication and partnership for working together on challenges.
- Family is empowered with information & tools for continuing with everyday problem solving.
- Parents & children are provided a safe and compassionate space for discovering what works for them as a family.
Involve using approaches that focus on understanding & addressing factors underlying the difficulties:
- Stuart Shanker's Self-Reg approach-effective self-regulation comes from managing stress & energy levels (www.self-reg.ca)
- Daniel Siegel's parenting resources-such as books Whole Brain Child & Power of Showing Up
- Ross Greene's Collaborative & Pro-active Solutions-for improving family communication and problem solving
- Self-compassion resources-based on evidence that self-compassion promotes positive change more than criticism
- Sensory processing-how one responds to sensory experiences impacting participation in activities
- Executive functioning-higher-level thinking abilities that support ease and independence with completing daily activities
- Social & emotional awareness-for fostering more awareness about emotions and social interactions
- Mindfulness-resources can be explored for families interested in including mindfulness-based tools in their tool-kit.
These services can be eligible for health benefits & funding:
1) Check to see if your health benefits plans include coverage for occupational therapy.
2) FSCD funding eligible-ask your FSCD worker about possibility of funding for these OT services.
3) Eligible as medical expense for end-of-year income tax deductions.
Click below to schedule a complimentary phone chat to talk about how these services can help your family: