Occupational Therapy Services
Specialising in Autism levels 1-3, neurological, sensory, intellectual and mental health conditions.
What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational Therapy assists people with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities to regain their ability to perform everyday activities. It is a form of rehabilitation that assists people overcome limitations caused by injury or illness, psychological and emotional difficulties, developmental delay or the effects of ageing.
It may include prescribing devices and teaching how to use adaptive equipment. or other new ways of doing things.
Working With You
At Well Balanced Care, our Occupational Therapists work one-on-one with participants. We assess people with all conditions and have experienced clinicians available to work with people of all ages - adults, children and adolescents.
Well Balanced Care OTs work in partnership with participants to support a move from dependence towards more independence, maximising achievement of personal goals, wellbeing and quality of life.
Our Services Include
Comprehensive functional capacity assessments to assist initial approval, improve current funding items or items left out entirely, including:
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Standardised OT assessments for ASD,
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Activities of daily living and cognitive assessments for strengths and weaknesses of executive cognitive functioning
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Lower limb gait and upper limb analysis for physical conditions
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Supported Independent Living (registered Australian Access Consultant)
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Assistive Technology
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Home environment safety assessments
Treatment programs and delivery to enhance participation in life following events such as joint replacement, stoke or spinal injury, amputation, or a chronic disease such as motor neurone disease or rheumatoid arthritis and conditions associated with ageing
Working with children or adolescents with any condition or disability to assist in achieving their development milestones and learning – eg. Cerebral palsy, developmental delay or disability, behavioural issues and more.