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DANIELLE KIRSTY LORD, OTR

Occupational Therapist – Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy), Gordon NSW Australia Email: daniellelord-kidsenseot@outlook.com

  • Danielle Kirsty Lord, OTR
    • Complex support needs – assessing via telehealth
    • Personal living spaces – OT designed
    • Outdoor areas for safe exploration
  • OT
    • Environment Modifications and Support Strategies
    • Exploration of Employment Options
    • Personal goal setting
      • Short term goals
      • Long term goals
      • Understanding resilience with challenging tasks / interactions
    • Personal Organisational Skills
      • Development of skills
    • Environmental Safety
    • Support for financial planning
    • Home Modifications – long term support
      • Environmental Supports – documents
      • Hoarding Vs Time Management Vs Problem Solving Management Skills
    • Exploring identity
      • Relationships
    • Home Management
    • Organisation of roles within the home or environment
  • Funding Management
    • Review Meetings
    • Review Meetings + Tribunal
      • Tribunal Cases – links to AATA website
      • Disability Royal Commission
    • Assessments
    • Funding usage considerations
    • Allocating funding over the course of a year
    • Independent Assessments
    • Reporting Fraud re: NDIS
  • Regulatory Strategies
    • Personal decision making re personal health
    • Knowledge vs decision making
    • Time Management
    • Working together
      • When to walk away
      • Direction, speed, intensity etc
      • Searching for friends of similar interests
      • Exploring new and old environments together
      • Understanding rules versus fairness
      • Repeated conversations
        • Active ignoring of information
      • Imitating versus copying versus personal identity
    • Limitations – learning them
    • Being able to manage challenges
      • Directing attention
      • Hand drawings
      • Hand drawings / written supports
    • Impact of health conditions on self regulatory skills
    • Sequencing + self regulation
    • Coping with dysregulation
    • Energy conservation and self regulation
    • Visibility in public when dysregulated
    • Integrating regulation into real situations
      • Changes in regulatory levels – environmental demands
    • Repairing challenging situations
    • Learning how to take risks
    • Repairing dysregulation in others
  • Education
    • Interactions related to academics and placement options
    • University Access
    • Dealing with advanced skills
    • Working around skill difficulties
    • Post school options
    • Technology access and usage across settings
    • Curriculum
    • Curriculum modifications – sequenced tasks
    • Mixed Media
    • Working through source material
    • Simplicity versus Complexity
  • Issues with Attention
    • Imitation
    • Sequencing or Planning….
    • Obstacles and Interferences
      • Supervision – What is it?
    • Progression of skill(s)
    • Patterns of processing
    • Disinterest
    • Being forced to do something
      • Unknown information
      • Learning how to say no
    • Inability to deal with challenges
  • Skill Deficits
    • I want
    • I don’t want
    • I don’t know what I want
    • I’m sorry I didn’t understand
    • Its too hard
    • Group focus
    • Under targeting skill development
    • Predicting skills
  • Thinking Skills
    • Endurance
    • On topic vs Off topic
      • Repetitive thinking – looping
      • Structure of an interaction
    • Foreground through to background
    • Coding isn’t coding (early years)
    • Thinking in pairs
    • Learning how to learn
      • Failure versus being supported to make decisions
      • Whose fault is it when something doesn’t work
      • Tangible outcomes of learning
      • Who is responsible for teaching how to learn?
      • I don’t want to learn – you do it for me
      • Permission
      • Managing negative feedback
    • Remembering
    • Linking concepts together
      • Use of particular words
  • Movement Skills
    • Goal directed
    • Movement in patterns
      • Stopping repetitive behaviours
    • Construction
    • Body Awareness
      • Managing forces
      • Functional examples of linking things together
      • Learning to manage hair
      • Sensation – playing with it
      • Flow of movement patterns
      • Supporting health care emergencies for individuals with severe disabilities and chronic medical conditions
    • Navigational Skills
      • Super Mario 3D World + Bowsers Fury
    • Visual Supports
      • Historical Information
    • Endurance
    • Managing energy levels
      • Mobility and fatigue
    • Sport
      • Self Regulatory examples within professional sport
  • Online Safety
    • Online Interaction
    • Self Care related to online safety
    • Posting photographs or video using social media
    • Group targeting possibilities
    • Online gaming access
    • Vocabulary for reporting complaints
  • Communication and Social Interaction
    • Quantity
    • Use of touch and physical handling
    • Physical gestures
    • Physically inappropriate behaviour
    • Tasks with shared physical interactions
    • Workload balance during shared tasks
      • Responsibility for regulating someone
    • Regulating yourself whilst communicating
      • Seeking support
    • Depth of topic knowledge
    • Depth of exploration of personal interests
    • Being a helper
    • Being a carer
    • Providing and Receiving Feedback
  • Vocational Support
    • Capabilities versus safety / home
    • Families who start their own businesses
    • University programming
    • Collecting evidence of skills
  • Graded learning
    • Where do you start? Nope. You start with the whole thing.
    • Accountability
    • Feedback from others about your progress
    • Knowing how to break something down
    • Attention to detail
  • Math
    • Understanding others use of time language
    • Putting things back together again
    • Dividing them up vs sharing vs goals of reallocating them
    • Moving and maths
    • Positioning and maths
    • Dividing up labour
  • Managing Challenging Places
    • Theme Park Rides
      • WaterPark Rides
  • Health
    • Caring relationships
    • Personal Care
    • Travel beyond
      • Packing
      • COVID – travel without masks
    • Sensory processing
    • Meal management
      • Resources
    • Personal safety
    • The art of interaction
    • Supporting self care with personal and family health
    • Toileting
    • Symptom management
      • Pain assessment
      • Supporting injuries
    • Managing recurrent illnesses
  • Technology Usage
    • Nintendo Switch
      • Yoshi’s Crafted World
      • Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
      • UltraWings
      • Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
      • Construction Simulator 2+3
      • Super Mario Odyssey
      • Cars 3: Driven To Win
      • The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening
      • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
    • Gaming
      • Movement within Nintendo games
      • Understanding the use of Physics in gaming
    • Xbox Console
      • Driving Games
    • Ipad
      • Apps for Ipad
      • Grading pressure
      • Issues with use in public settings
      • Organising information on your iPad
    • Wacom
      • For Sequencing within animation
    • Adobe
      • Adobe Character Animator
    • Can I play with my friends
    • Scratch
    • Damage to devices
  • Home Management support
    • Appropriate use of touch
      • Inappropriate touch inherent in the environment
      • Supervision within bathing / showering / toileting
      • Personal touch
    • Physical Layout
    • Room use
    • Daily Schedule – family vs individual
    • Qualifications of staff
    • Relationships
    • Management of clothing
    • Food Management
    • Supporting comprehension vs supporting ability to act
    • Working as a group
  • Clothing
    • Swimming
    • Jeans
    • Socks and Shoes
    • Categorising clothing is helpful
  • Meal Management
    • Organisational strategies for snacking
    • Support for breaking down routines within the home
    • Organisational skills for families with managing meal issues
  • Leisure Activities
    • Environmental Choices
    • Exploring family travel
    • Accomodation and Food management on Holidays
    • Holidays – types of activities
    • Traveling
      • Airplane travel
      • Identity documents
      • Car travel
      • Luggage
    • Time use over the day
    • Creation
    • Board Games
    • Sports activities at home
  • Structured Sport
    • Swimming
      • Equipment Providers
      • Alternatives to structured swimming lessons
      • Aquatics Professional Development
      • Pool design ideas to consider
      • Water Slide Parks – options
      • Safety
    • Gymnastics
      • Equipment Providers
      • Alternative Supports
    • Soccer
      • Equipment Supports
    • Tennis
      • Example programs
    • Snow Activities
  • Leisure Interests
    • Depth of knowledge
    • Concepts
    • Measurement of progress
    • Access options
    • Leisure activities from childhood into adulthood
      • Managing siblings play
      • Friendships over time
      • Environments that support or don’t
    • Unseen contributing factors
    • Managing high intensity interests
    • Exploring reading / watching options
      • Music
      • Levels of violence / aggression
    • Drawing
  • Lego and K’Nex
    • Purchasing individual bricks
    • Types of Models
      • Duplo
        • Storage Options
        • Themes
      • Regular Kits
        • Themes
        • Time Management
        • Storage
        • Playmobil – alternative
      • Technic
        • Paying attention in 3D
      • K’Nex
        • Kid K’Nex
    • Instructional Issues
  • Vision
    • Visual Analysis Skills
      • Elements that link visuals together
      • Understanding links and using that information
      • Visual Obstacles
      • Visual Structural Elements
      • Dealing with repetition with visually presented information
    • Eye Movement Control Skills
    • Vision & Movement in general
      • Movement and tiny details that give perspective or take it away
      • Progress through visual examples of tasks for learning to support academic post vocational programming
  • Home Therapy Supports
  • Age Appropriateness and Labelling on products
    • Developmental Profiles
      • Assessment Tools
      • Comparison
      • Consolidating information
      • Handing down of toys and of preferences
    • Duplo through Lego
    • K’Nex
    • MegaBloks
    • Hot Wheels
    • Galt Puzzles
    • Crayola
    • Clip Circuit
    • Quercetti
    • Gamewright
    • Melissa and Doug
    • Toys that you might not think about
    • Hasbro
    • TV and Movies
      • Scary
    • Books
      • Scary
  • Communication and Social Interaction
    • Comparing knowledge bases
      • Adding in new knowledge bases on top of existing ones
      • Integrating new knowledge bases by yourself or without help
    • What determines appropriateness?
      • What determines inappropriateness?
      • Appropriate speed of interactions
  • Concept of Occupational Deprivation
    • What is enough?
    • How long has it lasted for?
    • What has been the impact on health?
    • Limitations of the environment
    • Choosing not to listen
    • Underused resources
    • Time management and problem solving
    • Resource management
    • Working through issues one by one
  • Emergency Supports
    • Safety – Office
    • Bush Fire management
    • Absconding
      • Emergency Housing Options
    • Covid
  • Knowledge Management skills
    • Same but different
    • Understanding layers
    • Exploring versus look here
    • But I want to go this way
      • Obstacles
      • Managing opponents in gaming systems
      • Working ‘with’ others within gaming systems
    • Why I might like things done in certain ways
    • Knowledge and movement
  • Resources
    • Journal Articles
    • Video
    • Occupational Therapy Supports
    • Journal Articles
      • Covid – for professional review only for clinical personal education
      • Covid – paediatric symptoms of long covid
      • Toileting Management Issues / Concepts
      • Adverse Childhood Experiences
        • Justice System
        • Cyber Bullying Assessment tools
      • Meals / Food Intake
      • Body Awareness / Sensation Processing / Discrimination
      • Thinking Skills
      • Sensory Issues
      • Seizure Disorders
      • ADD / ADHD Long term outcomes
      • Adults with mental health issues – NDIS report supports
      • School Work
      • Chronic Pain
    • Data Sources
      • Education
      • Employment

Resources

Food Standards Australia NZ – Labelling

Allergen labelling

Ingredients list and percentage labelling

How to read food labels (click on the numbers for more detailed information)

Articles

Accessible packaging design is key to helping consumers

How to make packaging more accessible

Arthritis Australia – Accessible Design Division

Food packaging design and accessibility guidelines

 

 

 

 

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