Allied Health Services for people living with a disability

Our Speech Pathologists work with children, young people, and adults to assist them to build the skills required to effectively express themselves and communicate with confidence. Our team understands that communication is key to active participation and will work with individual strengths, needs, and aspirations.

Speech and Language Therapy can enhance an individual’s ability to use their speech and language skills to overcome communication challenges including:

• Language delays and disorders
  • Receptive language (understanding)
  • Expressive language (talking)
  • Social language skills (daily interactions with family, friends, and community)
• Speech sound delays and disorders
• Foundational literacy skills
• Stuttering and fluency
• Swallowing (eating and drinking difficulties).

Our Occupational Therapists are passionate about working with children, young people, and adults to assist them to understand and work with their bodies to perform basic life skills so everyone can be as independent as possible.

Occupational Therapy can assist in enhancing an individual’s ability to increase their independence by learning and addressing a variety of life skills including:

• Gross motor coordination
• Fine motor coordination
• Creative ideas to help make daily living tasks easier
• Self-awareness and body awareness
• Sensory processing
• Visual perception and visual-motor integration
• Aids and equipment for home, school and work
• Assisting participation in recreation and leisure activities
• Advice on major home modifications
• Minor home modifications such as rails, ramps, or steps.

Our Physiotherapists work with children, young people and adults to improve or maintain existing skills and abilities, develop new motor skills, and guide individuals’ participation in various activities.

Physiotherapists will identify factors that may limit individuals from achieving their goals and can offer the following services:

• Recommendations on exercise, therapy and equipment to support goal attainment
• Assistance in developing new motor skills and improving and maintaining existing abilities
• Assistance to relearn postural and movement skills
• Recommendations for seating, movement and mobility
• Recommendations for mobility aids and equipment
• Assistance with strengthening muscles
• Assistance with pain management
• Supporting individuals’ participation in sporting and leisure activities.