Our Occupational Therapists in Brent provide a high quality service to children and young people who:

  • have a Brent GP
  • have a Brent Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)

The team work with children and young people to help them develop the skills they need to be a part of everyday activities (known as occupations) as independently as possible. These activities might include:

  • personal care skills, including dressing, toileting, feeding, and brushing teeth
  • completing school activities, such as using scissors or using a pencil
  • being able to participate in fun leisure activities.

We work in partnership with you and your child, as well as with other people who are important in your child's life, such as their teachers.

Our aim is to support you and your child to be confident in overcoming barriers your child may experience when participating in day to day activities. To do this, we may:

  • suggest alternative ways of doing activities
  • provide specialist equipment
  • provide advice on how you can adapt your environment for your child
  • provide advice on learning new approaches.

Our team look after children and young people who have a functional difficulty with self-care, accessing school activities or taking part in leisure activities. This must be as a result of delay or difficulty with:

  • limb/fine motor skills
  • visual perceptual skills
  • sensory processing skills
  • motor planning skills

We will also look after children or young people who have a functional difficulty because of: 

  • developmental coordination disorder
  • difficulty with accessing the physical school environment (such as a child who is a wheelchair user).

Please note we do not provide equipment at home.

  • Telephone: 020 8102 3456
  • Email address: clcht.brentspa@nhs.net 
  • Location: Chalkhill Primary Care Centre, 113 Chalk Hill Road, Wembley HA9 9FX

We accept referrals from anyone who has the consent of the child or young person’s parent.

Routine referrals will come through to the Brent SPA. The SPA will be available from 08:00 to 17:00. Outside of the SPA opening times, please use the SPA number and your call will be routed directly to the clinical teams that operate out of these hours. to contact the SPA, telephone 020 8102 3456 or email clcht.brentspa@nhs.net.

Download our referral form.

Occupational Therapy resources

What is the PEO Model?

 

The PEO model is person-centred method commonly used in Occupational Therapy. It considers how person, environment and occupation interact and how we can use this to improve your health. The model involves 3 components: 

  • 'Person' is all about you - your skills, your strengths, and your needs. For example, you may be good at balancing but not so good at using your hands to guide a bike in the right direction.   

  • 'Environment' is everything around you - like the weather, the people you're with, and the things you interact with. For example, on a sunny day you might go to the park with family so they can help guide you on your bike. 

  • 'Occupation' is what you're doing - like playing a game, drawing a picture, or riding your bike to school.  

If you put it all together, the person, environment, and occupation can help you learn to improve your skills, like learning to ride your bike to school. When all the elements are working together to help the young person we call that occupational performance.

 

Click the links below to download the exercise guide.

Fine motor skills

Gross motor skills

Sensory motor skills

  • Bilateral activity - level 1 - ​​​​​​​promote the use of both hands together, for more complex actions, in a coordinated fashion
  • Bilateral activity - level 2 - ​​​​​​​promote the use of both hands together, for more complex actions, in a coordinated fashion
  • Bilateral integration - ​​​​​​​use both sides of the body at the same time in a controlled and organised manner
  • Crossing midline - ​​​​​​​crossing the midline of the body during activities

Sensory perceptual skills

Home

School

 

Further support

If you need further local support, you can find information and advice for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) aged 0-25 on the Brent council website.

Schools training programme information leaflet -  The Brent Children and Young Peoples Occupational Therapy Service are excited to offer a free virtual training package to all Brent Mainstream schools from September 2024. See upcoming dates in the leaflet.

Dressing

Eating

  • Meal times - ​​​​​​​help with setting up for meal times
  • Knife and fork use - ​​​​​​​play activities to learn cutlery skills
  • Developing spoon use - ​​​​​​​spoon-feeding activities​​​​​​​

Consistency, Repetition, and Routine

Backwards chaining technique

Handwriting

Play

Self care

Toilet training