Who will be able to help me teach DS self-care skills.

[MarioandLuigi]

DS is nearly three and cant do very much for himself. He cant feed or dress himself, drink from a beaker or clean his teeth. I have tried to help him to learn these things but he just doesnt seem to click (it took us four months to learn how to climb the stairs after practicing every day)

Would an OT be able to help? Or is it something for Portage? I am so confused!

We have an OT for my dd - is very much about self care skills. At our last visit on Monday she told us about toys which have lots of different fastenings like buttons and poppers to help with dressing skills. She also helped us get cutlery etc. Not sure about Portage - we were only offered OT!

OT can be helpful. It depends why he can't do these things. If he has grip problems, for example, the OT could provide adapted cutlery to help.

How did yu get to see an OT? Did your Paed refer you?

Yes, all through Paed. Our OT has been fab, visiting DD each term at preschool to make suggestions. Arranged handrail for our stairs.

Both OT & portage can help.

We were advised by OT to use toys & play to work on general skills that may help but only to focus on learnig one new thing at a time.

Also ds2 only really learns hand over hand, showing him is just not so effective.

My son had both and they were both great.
Ot helped as anonandlikeit described and was helpful in supplying equipment and portage helped me learn new ways of teaching him skills and how to break them down.