EHCP Assessment
Our Platinum EHCP Occupational Therapy Assessment is OT4me’s most comprehensive occupational therapy assessment. It is designed to provide clear, robust evidence of a child or young person’s functional needs and the support required to access education meaningfully.
This assessment focuses on how a child functions in everyday activities, rather than diagnosis alone, and is suitable for EHCP applications, annual reviews, and tribunal processes.
What is the Platinum Assessment?
The Platinum Assessment is OT4me’s most comprehensive occupational therapy assessment. It brings together multiple sources of information to develop a detailed understanding of a child’s strengths, needs, and barriers to participation.
The focus is on how a child manages daily activities, learning, and environmental demands, ensuring that recommendations are practical, evidence based, and relevant to education.
What the Assessment Looks At
The Platinum Assessment explores functional need across areas that commonly affect access to learning and participation, including:
- Sensory processing and sensory regulation
- Emotional regulation and self regulation
- Attention, concentration, and executive functioning
- Motor skills, coordination, and postural control
- Functional independence and organisation
- Participation in learning and everyday activities
How the Assessment is Carried Out
The assessment uses a joined up occupational therapy approach, drawing on clinical observation, assessment tools, and contextual information.
This may include a detailed developmental and functional history, task based activities, standardised and non standardised measures, and parent and school insights where available. This approach helps identify both visible and less obvious barriers to participation.
Functional Impact on Learning
The Platinum Assessment evidences how sensory, motor, and regulation needs affect learning, participation, and everyday demands within education. Findings are clearly linked to functional impact rather than diagnosis alone.
Evidence That Supports Provision
Assessment findings are translated into clear, practical recommendations that explain what support is needed and why.
Reports are written to support EHCP applications, reviews, and tribunal processes and can be shared confidently with schools and local authorities.
Our Assessment Approach
Our EHCP Occupational Therapy Assessments are grounded in a child centred, evidence based approach. We focus on understanding how each child experiences everyday demands, what supports their participation, and what barriers may be affecting access to learning and wellbeing. Every assessment is shaped around the individual child and their environment, ensuring findings are meaningful, respectful, and practically useful.
Participation-led Assessment
Our assessments focus on how children participate in everyday activities, learning, and routines. We explore what supports engagement and what creates barriers, ensuring recommendations are grounded in real life demands rather than labels or assumptions.
Environment and Context
We consider how environmental, sensory, and organisational demands affect a child’s ability to access learning. Understanding the interaction between the child and their environment helps us identify meaningful, practical adjustments that support participation.
Functional Understanding
We focus on understanding how a child manages everyday tasks and expectations across home and school. This allows us to clearly evidence functional need and link difficulties directly to support and provision.
How to Get Started
Getting started with our EHCP Occupational Therapy Assessment is straightforward. The first step is to book a free 30-minute call with one of our occupational therapists. This call gives you the opportunity to talk through your child’s needs, ask questions about the EHCP process, and explore whether the Platinum Assessment is the right next step. We will guide you clearly and honestly, so you can make an informed decision without pressure.
