Parents may get frustrated while teaching their children’s self-care skills. In light of this, the Occupation Therapy Team (the Team) of Heep Hong Society has designed this guidebook to help parents in mastering the home-based training skills to improve their children’s self-care ability.

The book contains 5 chapters, it first features the basic concept and rationale of self-care skills training. Following with the chapters relating to “Feeding”, “Toileting”, “Dressing” and “Grooming”, the four main areas of children’s self-care development. Each chapter will start with introducing the common problems which may be encountered, following with the illustration of some possible causes of those problems and finally providing parents with practical tips and specific training strategies to enhance children’s self-care skills. 

The book is now available in English, Urdu, Nepali, Hindi and Thai to provide support to parents from ethnic minority background.