Our Therapy Remit

We can support if a child is having difficulty in any of the following areas, A child does not require a diagnosis to access the services offered by Live & Love it.

We support many children who are school-refusers or who are homeschooled either by choice or due to difficulty identifying an appropriate school provision.

Self-Care

• Self-Regulation
• Self Esteem
• Dressing; putting clothes on, zips, buttons, shoelaces
• Brushing teeth
• Using cutlery
• Participating in family mealtimes
• Eating a range of age-appropriate foods
• Toileting
• Opening packages in a lunch box
• Bathing / showering
• Hair brushing / hair washing
• Nail cutting

Productivity (School skills)

• Handwriting (pencil grip, letter formation, sizing and spacing etc.)
• Scissors skills
• Reading (e.g. trouble keeping their place on the page, missing lines or fatigue)
• Attention and concentration
• Sitting correctly on a chair in class
• Participating in PE lessons
• Organising resources on their desk or in their bag

Play and Leisure

• Using playground equipment; slides, swings, climbing frames, monkey bars and roundabouts
• Ball skills; throwing, catching and football
• Socialising appropriately with peers
• Participating age-appropriately in extra-curricular activities; gymnastics, dance, judo, swimming, cubs, brownies, science, choir, animation and story-telling etc.
• Accessing the community
• Amusing themselves in play without adult support
• Activating cause and effect toys
• Willingness to engage in messy play

• Autistic Children
• Developmental Coordination Disorder
• Dyspraxia
• Sensory processing difficulties
• Down Syndrome
• Anxiety
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Specific learning disabilities
• Early Developmental Trauma
• Hypermobility
• Cerebral Palsy
• Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
• Global Developmental Delay
• Foetal Alcohol Syndrome

• 22q11.2 deletion/duplication syndrome
• PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome
• Chromosome 8p disorders
• Lesch Nyhan syndrome