Occupational Therapy as Landmarks offer support in the following areas:

Independence 

• To promote learner independence skills across areas of self-care, domestic skills, productivity including work, community access and leisure. 
• Support transference of strategies to home/outside of college 

Engagement and Wellbeing 

• Support learners to engage in learning activities onsite, in the community or at work placements.
• Enable learners to develop skills to self-regulate.

Sensory 

• Assess and support sensory needs at college and where appropriate in the workplace.
• Identify strategies that can be transferable into adulthood. 

Learners at Landmarks are supported through a Total Communication Approach, SLT support with:

Expression

• To ensure learners can make choices, get their message across, express wants, needs, and feelings

Understanding

• To enable learners to understand information so they can access learning and identify strategies to support their transition to adulthood.

Social Skills

• To enable learners to form friendships, have ‘good conversations’ gain awareness of appropriate relationships and support positive interactions.

Dysphagia

• Assessment and advice to support learners who have difficulties with chewing and swallowing.

Therapies support is assessed at initial assessment and reviewed regularly throughout the learner’s programme. 

Therapies offer:

• One to one, group sessions and collaborative delivery alongside education staff
• Individual learner support guidelines to outline learners’ strengths, needs and make recommendations to support them.
• Staff training, guidance and liaison including working with educational staff to set individualised communication and independence goals and to develop positive behavioural strategies.
• Environmental assessment and advice

You can see how our Therapy teams work together, by viewing our Therapy Model here.