The aim of the service is to provide assessment, intervention and advice for children and young people to help them to participate as fully as possible in daily life activities.

The Occupational Therapy (OT) service supports children and young people with additional needs and their families when it is challenging for them to do day to day tasks, such as, handwriting or dressing themselves on their own.

Who can be referred:

• The child or young people must be registered with a Manchester GP
• Aged between 0-18 or 19 if in a specialist school
• The child or young person has functional difficulties that are having a significant impact on them and are not in line with the child or young person’s developmental stage
• The child or young person is experiencing sensory processing difficulties that are impacting on at least two functional areas of daily living

We provide support for parents/carers in following strategies and in carrying out activities for home and school. The OT service will work in partnership with health professionals and other services who are also working with the child or young person, such as a child’s school or nursery setting.

Who can refer to the service?

• Health professionals working for the Children’s Community Health Service who have active involvement with the child
• Occupational Therapists
• CAMHS
• Hospital paediatricians
• GPs

If a child or young person has previously been known to the Occupational Therapy service, referrals can be made from:

• Parents or carers
• School

How to refer to the service

• By EMIS internal referral – for Manchester Local Care Organisation staff only
• By email to Referrals.cypt@nhs.net
• By post to Baguley Clinic, Hall Lane, Baguley, Manchester M23 1NA

Email and postal referrals must be on a children and young people’s service referral form – download the Occupational Therapy Referral and Intervention Guidelines and Referral Form here.

Contact Information

North Team
Children and Young People’s Therapy Centre
48 Blackwin Street
Gorton
Manchester
M12 5JY

Phone: 0161 230 0301

South Team
Baguley Clinic
Hall Lane
Baguley
Manchester
M23 1NA

Phone: 0161 445 1259

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm.

Social Media

Twitter: www.twitter.com/MLCOChildOT
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mlcochildot

Useful Links

• www.rcot.co.uk
• www.nhsggc.org.uk/kids/resources
• www.cerebra.org.uk
• www.mencap.org.uk
• www.scope.org.uk
• www.musculardystrophyuk.org/mduk
• www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk
• www.otplan.com
• www.contact.org.uk
• www.sensoryintegrationeducation.com/pages/for-parents-and-carers
• www.sensory-processing-disorder.com

• Autism
  www.autism.org.uk
  Autism is a leading UK charity; their website provides information and support for people with autism and their families.
• Disability
  www.scope.org.uk
  Scope is a disability equality charity, providing practical information and emotional support where it is needed.
  www.contact.org.uk
  Contact is a charity for families with disabled children, providing support, guidance and information.
• Downs Syndrome
  www.downs-syndrome.org.uk
  Information and support on Down’s Syndrome
• Dyspraxia/DCD
  www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk
  The dyspraxia foundation is a country wide charity providing information and advice on dyspraxia.
• Head Injury
  www.headway.org.uk
  A charity to promote understanding of all aspects of brain injury and provide information, support and services to survivors, their families and carers.

See the Manchester City Council local offer for further information on local support and advice services:
https://hsm.manchester.gov.uk/kb5/manchester/directory/localoffer.page?localofferchannel=0

• www.nhsggc.org.uk/kids
  A range of useful resources, information and activity ideas for children with additional needs.
• www.teachhandwriting.co.uk
  Handwriting activity ideas and advice.
• www.otplan.com
  An activity idea search engine for children’s occupational therapy activities.  Matching skills you want to work on, with materials you have, to a detailed occupational therapy treatment activity.
• www.fieggen.com
  A website with visual guides of how to tie shoe laces.
• www.cptoys.org
  Matching toys to upper limb therapy goals for children with cerebral palsy
• https://sensory-processing.middletownautism.com/
  Sensory processing strategies