Occupational Therapist (OT) recommendation

[calliopehk]

I'm looking for a recommendation for an independent occupational therapist (OT) for an assessment of a primary school child with handwriting issues flagged by the school.
I understand that many of the therapists at the integrated centers end up selling you all the services, which is why I'd like to go independent.

Any advice / recommendations welcome.

[No need...]

For OT...

Went thru this at uwc dover and was told to go and see an OT guru. A kindly older teacher at the school said not to bother and to gave me a hand writing book that the school has...123 handwriting for my childs age. All it had was the print and my child had to go over the dotted lines to trace the print and then print free hand in the space provided. It worked wonders, for every 5 pages my child did I bribed him with a packet of Match Attax (Grade 1) and he completed the pages pretty quickly.

[prunella]

dont worry handwriting is not essential these days. in higher levels your typing skills are required, most teachers dont bother too much with handwriting. develop the kids muscles in the hand more important so they can grip the pencil

[nonsense]

dont worry handwriting is not essential these days. in higher levels your typing skills are required, most teachers dont bother too much with handwriting. develop the kids muscles in the hand more important so they can grip the pencil

A levels and IB Diploma exams all have to be handwritten (unless you have a diagnosed disorder that allows you to word process them) so being able to write by hand is still important.

[SSNAP]

Contact Singapore Special Needs & Parents, they have a directory of independent & centre based OT's, you can call around then.  Google it and it comes up.

[lemondrops]

Ashely at Therapy Connect in 1 marine parade (across parkway centre) is an OT.  Haven't used him personally for DD, but do know he sees a lot of children for a variety of cases.

[Lilliput]

I found that whenever a therapist was recommended, they were always totally booked out. Try Brain Train, we had a good one there.