Self-care is fundamental to children’s participation in daily life. This webinar will give an overview of current evidence about children’s self-care, developed from recent and ongoing research studies with children, families and therapists. The webinar will present how children and young people view and define self-care, evidence about children’s self-care development in the early years’, barriers and facilitators to self-care, and therapy interventions for supporting self-care. Attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas and comments to consider the evidence in relation to current practice.

Learning objectives:

- To update knowledge about children’s self-care and self-care interventions.

- To critically appraise the evidence and current clinical practice to contribute to development and implementation of evidence-based practice

Speaker biographies: Lelanie Brewer and Sam Armitage

Lelanie and Sam are children’s occupational therapists and PhD candidates researching self-care in children with and without motor impairments. They are members of the CHILD research group, leading applied clinical research on children’s self-care, physical activity and movement, and friends and social participation.

The event will be delivered via Zoom

*Details of the link will be sent the day before the event.

*Attendees must be members of CYPF to attend. Please use your CYPF number to book the event. Please note the link will be sent via your booking email address.