VEYLDF Alignment
Item uses these practice principles: Reflective Practice, Partnerships with Families, High Expectations for Every Child, Respectful Relationships & Responsive Engagement, Equity and Diversity, Assessment for Learning and Development, Integrated Teaching and Learning Approaches, Partnerships with Professionals.
Item responds to these sub-outcomes: Children become strong in their social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
Description
Occupational therapists, using an approach that builds on existing skills and knowledge, work with educators, parents and families through case consultation, provision of group training and other discipline-specific services to enhance children's social and emotional self-regulation, physical development and sensory processing.
Detailed Costs
Costs vary according to providers.
Implementation Considerations
Target population: educators, children, parents/carers.
Program/practice descriptions and details: occupational therapists provide support to
educators that builds on existing skills and
knowledge, including coaching and modelling, in order to enhance
their confidence in supporting children's social and emotional self-regulation, physical development and sensory processing.
Factors to consider: services should consider, in consultation with an occupational therapist, the needs of their staff and children, and how best they may be supported by an occupational therapist. Occupational therapists should be registered with AHPRA and are required to work within the VEYLDF.
Priority Area
Wellbeing (social and emotional), Access and inclusion
Strength of Evidence
Professional services