Therapy Programme

THERAPY PROGRAMMES

 

1.      Occupational therapy

·        Main Objective

To help learners reach their maximum potential.  To achieve this (as part of a team) by implementing graded activities (as practical and applicable as possible) starting from where the learning is functioning at a specific stage and progressing through normal development stages.

·        Evaluation of learners

To determine strengths and needs, for class placements, for referrals and planned therapy programmes.

·        Group/ individual therapy

This is planned in conjunction with the educator

·        Social skills groups

This programme empowers learners as they are often victims of abuse in their different communities.  It provides a platform for learners to vent their feeling and emotions in an appropriate manner.  Learners are also taught various skills in order to express themselves.

·        Training

Guidance or lectures to students, mainstream educators, parents and guardians (can take place through individual interviews, telephone interviews, group activities, in-service training, talks and workshops)

·        Work orientation group

Setting up a programme in collaboration with the educators that is specifically geared at training and improving the learners work habits necessary for working at a protected workshop or in the open labour market.

 

2.      Horse riding

·        Specifically geared at our learners who are cerebral palsy.  Lessons are offered and done through South African Riding for the Disabled.

 

3.      Practical programme

·        The intermediate phase does the preparation work where learners are exposed to different practical programmes.

·        The senior and occupational phases are geared at career pathing, where a learner is trained in a specific practical skill as chosen by themselves, parents and educator.

 

4.      Sport codes

·        Summer codes – cricket, swimming, athletics, table tennis

·        Winter codes – netball, soccer, hokker

·        Gross motor development programme – for those learners at school who do not qualify for the school team in the different sport codes and those learners who are in the development teams.

 

5.      Physiotherapy

·        The school does not have a resident physiotherapist.  The University of the Western Cape sends 3^rd and 4^th year student to Oasis school for their community practical groups.

·        These students offer therapy to learners as identified by the OT and educators.

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