by Youth Living Skills | Sep 27, 2018 | Blog
What are fine motor skills and why are they important? Fine motor skills refer to the use of the hands’ smaller muscles, which are important when completing tasks such as using scissors or other instruments, tying shoelaces or buttoning clothes. Fine motor skills are...
by Youth Living Skills | Sep 21, 2018 | Blog
The Occupational Therapy (OT) functional assessment At its core, OT serves to increase a person’s independence to enable them to participate socially within their community and complete tasks and vocations in their life that is meaningful to them. When a person has a...
by Youth Living Skills | Sep 15, 2018 | Blog
What are psychological assessments for children? In general, psychological assessments aim to explore an individual’s cognitive capacity, how they think and perceive thoughts, feelings and behaviours. These assessments usually involve the psychologist observing the...
by Youth Living Skills | Sep 4, 2018 | Blog
What do occupational therapists do? Occupational therapists (OT) help people grow their independence and skills to perform everyday tasks and activities that is important to the person. This can range from vocational “occupations” such as studying or pursuing a career...
by Youth Living Skills | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog
What is Occupational Therapy and how can it help children? Occupational Therapy (OT) is an individualised service that focuses on building children’s personal and life skills, so they can be more independent and have a better quality of life. OT aims to enhance...
by Youth Living Skills | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog
At its fundamental core, psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour and the mind. Psychologists often work with people to improve how they cope with and resolve problems or issues inducing behavioural or emotional problems. Psychologists work with people...
by Youth Living Skills | Aug 13, 2018 | Blog
Why social skills important for children? Children can commonly have difficulties with interacting with their peers and forming relationships. Social skills are integral to a child’s development as making and keeping friends often advances a child’s confidence,...
by Youth Living Skills | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog
Anxiety and children Anxiety is a very common psychological and emotional experience seen in children and adults. Anxiety is quite “normal” for people to feel when they are worried, nervous or afraid, and the body often responds with physical symptoms such as...
by Youth Living Skills | Aug 1, 2018 | Blog
What are social language skills Social (or pragmatic) language/communication skills involve how people communicate through language. These skills are comprised of three main types of skills; how we use language to communicate in various ways (e.g. greetings, making...
by Youth Living Skills | Jul 11, 2018 | Blog
What are learning difficulties Learning difficulties are associated with serious problems in the areas of reasoning, speaking and listening, writing, reading or mathematics. Learning disorders are believed to be caused by maladjustments in the nervous system, and...
