SPOT Therapy

SPOT Therapy is a specially designed programme at TDCC Abu Dhabi for children who benefit from both speech and language therapy and occupational therapy. Your child works with a speech and language therapist and an occupational therapist together, in the same session.

SPOT therapy offers many benefits:

• Having both therapists in the room can help your child stay focused and take a more active part in the session.
• Working with two therapists gives your child the chance to interact with more than one person at a time. Practising social skills one-to-one can be limiting. With an extra person involved, your child can work on skills such as following instructions in a group, starting and keeping up a conversation with more than one person, coping with winning and losing, taking turns and sharing.
• When the speech and language therapist works alongside the occupational therapist, they can build language and communication naturally into each activity. Many of the activities planned by the occupational therapist can also target your child’s speech and language goals, just as movement and communication happen together in everyday life.
• Parents receive regular feedback and practical strategies after sessions. This means everyone involved in your child’s care is supporting them in the same, consistent way.