Nicole le Roux
Occupational Therapy
Nicole works with children of all ages and easily adapts to each child’s needs and their unique personality. She believes that early detection and intervention can impact a child’s life significantly and through individual therapy, each child can reach their full potential.
- ( +27 ) 72 994 5079
- info@nicolelerouxot.co.za
Occupational Therapy can assist your child with:
Play is your child's most natural form of learning.
Fine and gross motor skill development.
Sensory progressing.
Academic and cognitive skill development.
Visual-Perceptual skill development.
Social and emotional skill development.
Neurodevelopmental Therapy can assist your child with:
Social, emotional
and communication difficulties
Limited repertoire of movement patterns
Family and carer guidance
Meaningful and functional engagement
Neurodevelomental Therapy (NDT) techniques are used to enhance meaningful engagement for individuals with conditions including Cerebral Palsy. NDT considers the holistic child by including sensory systems, perception, motor skills and adaptive ways to achieve individual client goals, taking into consideration their unique circumstances, resources, abilities and potential. It also focuses on including the caregivers and family to ensure optimal carryover into the household daily routine for quality and purpose in life.
Play Therapy can assist your child with:
Social and relational diffculties
Emotional regulation
Life occurrences such as bereavement, divorce or parental separation
Issues related to bullying
Diffcult life events such as abuse, neglect, illness or trauma
ADHD
Anxiety
Depression
Play Therapy offers a child the opportunity to identify, acknowledge and process their feelings, problems and anxieties. They learn to cope with their feelings constructively and start to develop effective strategies for dealing with their experiences in the real world more appropriately. Play Therapy involves the use of toys and methods to encourage a child’s imagination through different experiences of play to master skills essential to their world and experiences in it. Through this therapeutic process, which is based on a non-judgmental therapeutic relationship, a child’s skills are enabled to bring about healing, growth and change.
Hippotherapy
Incorporation of the horse's movement
Adresses impairments, functional limitations, and disabilities
Functional and individualized goals
Neuro-motor and/or sensory dysfunction
Hippotherapy is a form of therapy that uses the natural movement of a horse to help individuals achieve therapeutic goals.
Hippotherapy benefits physical, cognitive and emotional health by addressing multiple skills within each session including but not limited to:
– Improving core strength and posture.
– Enhancing balance and coordination.
– Promotes motor planning.
– Encourages joint mobility.
– Boosts concentration, focus and problem-solving.
– Supports language development and communication skills.
– Increases confidence and self-esteem.
– Builds trust and emotional regulation.
Hippotherapy offers benefits to a variety of clients including:
– Individuals with sensory processing challenges.
– Individuals with neurological or musculoskeletal conditions, physical disabilities, mobility challenges, limited range of movement, balance and coordination difficulties.
– Individuals presenting with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Downs Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy.
– Individual with developmental delays and genetic disorders.
– Individuals with social and communication difficulties.
Goal
Nicole le Roux Occuaptional Therapy’s goal is to build on your child’s strengths to promote further independence in daily activities of life, thus empowering every child through purposeful play.
Through a holistic approach to occupational therapy, evaluating your child in their different environments, assists her to fully understand the client’s needs to maximize the positive impact on their life. Her approach involves collaboration with a child’s parents, caregivers, teachers and health practitioners to determine the best way forward that can address the immediate as well as long-term needs of every child.
As an Occupational Therapist, Nicole focuses on the areas of concern of each individual client to ensure they maintain a healthy balance between their physical, social, cognitive and emotional abilities according to their daily needs for functioning optimally. Children perform tasks within different environments with age appropriate milestones that can be enhanced through occupational therapy services which address fine motor and gross motor skills, attention and concentration, problem solving, social and interpersonal skills. These skills determine a child’s ability to perform daily tasks at home, school and social settings for them to enjoy a purposeful and fulfilling life.
About
Nicole is passionate about taking a holistic approach and will continuously advocate for working with a client, within their unique environment and the variables within. She also strongly believes in working within an interdisciplinary team that includes other health professionals to ensure that each client’s needs are being met for optimal outcomes throughout the therapeutic process.
Nicole has completed her training in Neurodevelopmental Therapy (NDT) and is currently completing her sensory integration (SI) training.
Nicole’s dream is to open a Hippotherapy (using a horse as part of Occupational Therapy in order to provide motor and sensory input) to combine her love for horses with her passion to help children.
Nicole completed her Bachelors in Occupational Therapy in 2019 at the University of the Western Cape. She went on to complete her community service in 2020 focusing on children and adolescent well-being with a special interest in Play Therapy as a means to emotional well-being. Upon completion of her training in Play Therapy, she worked with children and adolescents with needs regarding emotional regulation, various mental health disorders, bullying, terminal illness and trauma.
Nicole is passionate about taking a holistic approach and will continuously advocate for working with a client, within their unique environment and the variables within. She also strongly believes in working within an interdisciplinary team that includes other health professionals to ensure that each client’s needs are being met for optimal outcomes throughout the therapeutic process.
Nicole is an extremely passionate and driven therapist and enjoys working directly with the teachers and principals at the schools our clients are attending. Nicole has a very unique skill set as she is able to train teachers on how to attend to the needs of children who requires extra help within the classroom environment.
Qualifications
DEGREE:
Bachelors in Occupational Therapy.
HPCSA ACCREDITED COURSES:
– Ayres Sensory Integration in progress (SASIC3)
– Paediatric Neurodevelopmental Therapy (NDT)
– Hippotherapy
– Play Therapy as a means to emotional well-being.
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