> Occupational Therapy

Welcome to the Children’s Occupational Therapy service at Mill Water School.

We provide a whole school OT service offering:

    • Fine motor skills groups; using tools, pens, pencils, scissors and cutlery
    • Organisational groups to support with life skills such as making a hot drink, making a snack, catching a bus, ordering a drink, packing a school bag
    • Personal care practice and advice on how to support with toileting, teeth brushing, dressing etc
    • Supporting posture
    • Regulation groups and a school wide approach to sensory differences

For more information or to contact the Mill Water School’s Occupational Therapy service, please email cfhd.devonspa@nhs.net and mark it for the attention of Mill Water School OTs.

Who are we?

Jo Angell

I graduated from Plymouth University as an OT in 2015. After graduating, I worked in varied adult community and in-patient settings and took time off to have my own children, before joining the Children’s Occupational Therapy team at the end of 2021.

Since graduating, I had always hoped to work with children, having spent several years prior to my degree working with children with additional needs, within another special school and in a holiday playscheme. It is therefore a great pleasure to be in this role and working with families and I am really excited to be joining the lovely team at Mill Water too!

Helpful Information

Kid Skills
Bottoms and Toilets
Core Stability
Cutlery Cups and Plates
Fine Motor Skills
Handwriting Activity
Maximising Attention
Organising Yourself 11-18
Organising Yourself 5-11
Scissor Skills
Sensory Processing
Tying Shoe Laces
Using Both Sides of the Body

Nancy Sheppard

I graduated from the University of Plymouth in 2007 and started working in the Children’s Community Occupational Therapy Team in 2008. In this time I have completed my Sensory Integration Level 1 training and had a wealth of experience, including working in other special schools.

I really enjoy working with children/young people and their families and I am really excited to be working at Mill Water.
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Helpful Information

Sensory Differences
Dressing
Eating
Environmental Changes
Equipment Suppliers
Hair Washing
Interoception
Our Own Sensory Differences
Proprioception
Toileting