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Sam Armitage
@sam-armitage.bsky.social
Children’s occupational therapist and clinical academic at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Early years and self-care research and practice. Health Service delivery.
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Also great to see Ailish Harrison’s work presented Sam Armitage. Scoping review. Yey for more paediatric SLT eating & drinking research! #EACD2025 #Dysphagia
June 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Current therapy practice for children’s self-care in the UK primarily teaches and trains children, parents and other adults how to do self-care activities and practices; how we describe the ‘usual care’ control arm of the CHildren’s Early Self-care Support (CHESS) cluster randomised trial #EACD2025
June 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Great to present our scoping review on AHP interventions to improve oral feeding for preterm infants with feeding aversion in the first 2 years of life #EACD2025 protocol to be published soon…watch this space
June 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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June 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Another beautiful day for a run (and a fair bit of walking too)
June 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Beautiful trail run tonight in the Peak District
May 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Lots of opportunities to improve support for self-care in paediatric therapy through CYP’s autonomy and involvement in their care - a real need to take a different view of self-care

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Self‐Care Interventions for Children and Young People With Neurodisabilities: A Mixed Methods Study of Current Therapy Practice in the United Kingdom
Background Self-care is a priority outcome for children and young people with neurodisabilities, their parents and therapists, but there is little evidence about paediatric therapy interventions for...
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March 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM