Clinical Psychology Physiotherapy & Sensory Integration
The starting point for clinical psychology is always an assessment of needs, which might include meeting the child and talking with them, depending on how old they are or where their verbal skills are at, reviewing key information and documents. We would also want to talk to the people around the child who know them well - usually key staff, parents/carers and other professionals to hear about how the child is doing. It's all about helping us build up a picture of that child, what the difficulties are and where and how they present themselves. Once we have a good understanding of what we think is going on, we can begin to think about the kind of treatment that needs to happen.
Examples of recent referrals include Physiotherapy: orthopaedic difficulties (e.g. scoliosis), cerebral palsy, obesity, toe walking.
Physiotherapy can help with:
Provide a treatment package as appropriate for the childs needs; this may include any of the following: block of individual treatment sessions, school exercise programme, home exercise programme, group sessions, massage therapy, swimming sessions. Restore movement and function to as near normal as possible Help the student's achieve their physical potential for independence and fitness level. The school’s Physiotherapist and Sensory Integration Lead supports student’s sensory-motor needs. Many young people have sensory processing difficulties. Sensory integration provides individualized sensory diets and exercise programmes to support the young persons sensory regulation and physical health.
This could be either:
• Individually with the child – the clinical psychologist meeting on a one-to-one basis with the child, doing some therapy (possibly by talking or more creatively). • Involving other people – maybe sessions involving other people as well in doing what we call systemic (group) sessions looking at the whole system.
Physiotherapy also provides:
Based on what the assessment tells us we think about what interventions we might offer.
• Sensory equipment • Advice regarding setting up sensory / quiet spaces • Exercise equipment • Prescribes horse riding • Provides additional physical activities in the school’s multi gym • Regular staff deep pressure training • Meeting Sensory Integration needs of students • Running joint OT / PT internal referral system • Supporting students sensory – motor needs is important not only for physical health and wellbeing but also mental health.
We also offer young people Drama Therapy and Music Therapy
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