Skills for School
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About Skills for School
Megan Wight is an occupational therapist who specialises in unlocking children's potential by building on their strengths and increasing their capability. Her entire career has focused on enabling children to succeed at school, with 18 years of experience working with children in London, Sydney and Brisbane schools. She works exclusively with children at home, school or kindy in their natural contexts, collaborating closely with parents and teachers to enable sustainable gains.
What's offered
Home or school visits
Services provided
Skills for School lists
- Handwriting Consultation
- Occupational therapy focused on improving handwriting and writing skills, which Megan identifies as often the biggest single factor impacting academic performance.
- In-Context Therapy
- Therapy delivered at home, school or kindy where children can apply their gains immediately, with collaboration between therapist, parents and teachers.
Get to know Skills for School
From Skills for School's website.
Our approach
Skills for School uses an acquisitional approach to handwriting intervention, combining instructional guidance with practice, repetition, feedback and reinforcement. Assessment takes a 'top-down' perspective, examining handwriting output in different settings like home and school, and gathering views from the child, parent and teacher to understand both handwriting performance and related abilities such as learning capacity, attention and motivation. The Cognitive Orientation to Occupational Performance (CO-OP) is used to provide evidence-based, goal-centred intervention tailored to improve handwriting for primary school children. Sessions typically occur twice weekly for at least 20 sessions to support optimal progress, and work happens in real-world contexts where children can apply their learning immediately.
Working with families
Megan collaborates closely with parents and teachers to support children's progress and enable sustainable gains. Assessment gathers perspectives from parents as part of the comprehensive 'top-down' approach, and sessions work towards goals that can be applied immediately at home and school. By involving families in the process and working across home, school and kindy settings, the approach ensures learning happens in context and skills can be easily generalised into everyday life.
Meet the team
The practice is led by Megan Wight, an occupational therapist who specialises in supporting children with learning difficulties, with a special focus on handwriting. Megan graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) with Honours in 2006 and has completed honours research in information processing and social competence. She brings 18 years of experience working with children in schools across London, Sydney and Brisbane, and was previously a therapist at the prestigious London Children's Practice. Megan has also collaborated with Associate Professor Chris Chapparo on pioneering research published in the Occupational Therapy Journal of Australia and presented at national and international conferences.
Your first visit
A first appointment involves a handwriting assessment using a 'top-down' approach. This includes reviewing handwriting output under different conditions in both home and school settings, and gathering input from multiple perspectives including the child, parent and teacher. The assessment examines aspects of handwriting performance alongside related abilities such as learning and cognitive capacity, attention and motivation, and may include complementary standardised assessments. This comprehensive initial evaluation helps identify specific goals and determine the best intervention pathway for your child's needs.
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