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Virtual Therapy Tips
Check out this video for parents and clinicians.
Drop-in Webinars
Clinicians are invited to join drop-in webinars to discuss early hand therapy with experienced occupational therapists. Webinars are held monthly and will resume in Fall 2026.
Therapist Directory
If you are looking for an occupational therapist in Canada with early hand therapy experience, check out our directory to find an OT in your province.
Therapist Tools
Our partners at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital have valuable resources for clinicians for early hand asymmetry therapy. You can find the website here: Early Hand Asymmetry Therapy Resources along with specific resources linked below.
Learn to Coach
Training for Early Hand Therapy Providers
Want to bring a coaching approach into your early hand therapy practice? Our 3‑part online workshop series will teach you how to apply coaching concepts directly in your clinical sessions. We’ll introduce the Applied Coaching Tool (ACT), an easy-to-use support tool that you can take into your sessions.
Spring 2026 training is full. Stay tuned for another series in Fall 2026.
Roadmaps to Early Hand Therapy
These downloads are designed to help parents and therapists navigate the path to early hand therapy. Each has clickable links to relevant resources.
Click the images to download.
Therapy Funding
Families may access early hand therapy through a range of publicly funded and private services. These resources are intended to help families who are exploring private occupational therapy understand potential funding and financial support options.
We are sharing these funding options to help you explore possibilities to fund early hand therapy outside of public or private health insurance plans. We do not endorse or have affiliations with any of the organizations listed.
- Oracle Health Foundation offers a grant for children with medical needs that can be used for therapy: maximum of 26 weekly sessions or maximum of 3 weeks of intensive therapy. This grant is income dependent.
- Hope for Cerebral Palsy provides sponsorship of privately funded, 5 day intensives specifically for children under 5 years old.
- SMILE Canada Support Services has an Accessibility Fund to assist families with costs associated with the child and/or youth’s disability such as therapies. This grant is income dependent.
- Jordan’s Principle is a child-first principle to ensure First Nations children get the services they need when they need them.T his grant is for First Nations children.
- Cerebral Palsy Support Canada Project is a grant for $1000 for children with Cerebral Palsy living in Canada.
- March of Dimes offers free one-on-one Occupational Therapy consultations.
- Noah’s Clubhouse provides funding for therapy to families with a child under 18 with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Funding is in the amount of $700 to use for therapy only. This grant is for families in Ontario.
- Jennifer Ashleigh Children’s Charity offers a grant for children with medical needs for equipment, therapy, and more for children who are in-patient or receiving receiving intensive outpatient treatment. This grant is income dependent for families in Ontario.
You can download a copy of list list here.
These are letter templates for requesting occupational therapy coverage from private insurers. Two letters are included: one written from the therapist’s perspective, and one from the caregiver’s or client’s perspective.
Other Resources
- You can find videos on our Instagram account: @therapy4littlehands
- Our team is always adding videos to show families and clinicians what hand therapy for young children with CP looks like. If you would like to contribute to the video library, please Contact Us.
- The CIMT Centres in the North West, UK created a video introduction to infant CIMT. There are also videos about individual children, like Ava's Story and Thomas' Story.
- The Cerebral Palsy Foundation has a series of videos. Included are videos about Muscle Development & Early Intervention and Learning to Move & Goals of Therapy.
- Download HEIGHTEN program manuals for Clinicians and for Caregivers
- Please Contact Us for customized manuals for your program
- HEIGHTEN Introduction for Caregivers
- Baby CIMT Educational Resources from Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
- Download the Baby CIMT Manual from Karolinska Institutet (by Ann-Christin Eliasson and Lena Sjöstrand)
Early Intervention Research
- Key papers:
- Morgan C, Fetters L, Adde L, et al. Early Intervention for Children Aged 0 to 2 Years With or at High Risk of Cerebral Palsy: International Clinical Practice Guideline Based on Systematic Reviews. JAMA Pediatr. 2021;175(8):846–858.
- Damiano D, Longo E. Early intervention evidence for infants with or at risk for cerebral palsy: an overview of systematic reviews. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2021;63(7):771-784.
- Novak I, Morgan C, Adde L, et al. Early, Accurate Diagnosis and Early Intervention in Cerebral Palsy: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Sep 1;171(9):897-907. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.1689.
- Search Pubmed for recent articles on early intervention for cerebral palsy
- Cerebral Palsy Foundation: Understanding Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebral Palsy Canada Network
- Pediatric Stroke and Brain Injury Education from the Massachusetts General Hospital
- Canadian Persons with Disabilities Discount Guide: The Ultimate List
- Creating possibilities for Cerebral Palsy
- CP-NET
- A Family Guide to Pediatric Stroke
- Pediatric Stroke Warriors
- International Alliance for Pediatric Stroke (IAPS) and the Family Toolkit
- Children’s Hemiplegia and Stroke Association
- Calgary Pediatric Stroke Program