**Only currently available in Sydney Metro 2 & 3** What is it?  Customised therapy which is recognised by the NDIS as best practice in Paediatric Early Childhood Intervention approach for children 0-6 years Delivered by highly experienced education and allied health professionals who take the lead role in helping your child achieve all their goals and receive all the support they need The Key Worker Model not only focuses on therapy, but can support our participant families with information, advice and coordination of services This can be especially helpful where you have multiple people helping your child, whether they are from Ability Action or from other service providers *Would you like to go ahead and get your child on our system, and once all the paperwork is completed we will have one of our clinicians get in touch to work out the best service for your child? **If caller is still wanting more information - "I can send you further details via email":  You can use the Key Worker email template to provide further info to the requester

Whatever you need, our Occupational Therapists will assess your situation and provide personalised services to help you do the things you want and need to do to, in the most effective way possible. We offer home visits as well as clinic-based support (where clinic available). Our Occupational Therapists can help with:     Functional Capacity Assessments  Assistive Technology Assessments  - wheelchair prescription, mobility assessments, shower chairs, hoists and sling assessments  Manual Handling training and education  Pressure care education and therapy  Therapy and rehabilitation  Dementia Care and Planning  Falls Prevention  Home modifications - Ramps, Grab Rails, Bathroom and kitchen modifications  Occupational therapy driving assessments - Currently available in WA only 

Our experienced team of Exercise Physiologists (EPs) will provide you with a customised exercise program, giving you the tools to self-manage your condition and improve your quality of life. Our EPs can help treat and manage specific conditions, as well as chronic diseases and medical conditions.    The benefits of an exercise physiology program tailored specifically for you include:  Improved mental health, wellbeing and self-esteem  The ability to effectively self-manage your condition  Improved mobility and physical function  Pain reduction  Greater independence and the ability to achieve important life goals 

At Ability Action Australia, our team of Physios work with NDIS participants to treat a broad range of conditions across paediatric, pain, neurological, musculoskeletal, and mental health areas.  Our Physios can help treat and manage:  Developmental delays in children  Pain  Incontinence  Neurological conditions, like Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis  Chronic diseases like diabetes, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and obesity  Stroke  Rehabilitation after surgery 

At Ability Action Australia, our speech pathologists work within a multidisciplinary team with other health professionals to support children and adults who have difficulties with:  Speech   Language   Voice   Fluency   Literacy   Swallowing  

At Ability Action Australia, our psychologists provide specialised assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental health, behavioural and emotional conditions for people of all ages We offer face-to-face services in NSW, Victoria, TAS, QLD and WA either from one of our clinics or through our convenient mobile services where our clinicians come to you. We also offer services nationally via our Telehealth service. How you benefit Our Psychology service offers a broad variety of benefits for NDIS participants, including an improved ability for you to relate to family and friends, connect with your local community and enrich your quality of life. There is strong evidence for the benefits of psychology for a range of participants, including those living with physical, psychosocial, neurological, sensory, cognitive and intellectual disability. Like other allied health disciplines, the role of a psychology clinician providing services via an NDIS plan is to help you reach your goals. Our psychology clinicians will complete a specialised clinical assessment to identify the mental health, behavioural and emotional conditions preventing you from working towards your goals, and then generate an individualised, evidence-based intervention plan to address these. The intervention our psychology clinicians provide could include: Assessment of cognitive or intellectual functioning, to support a better understanding of the challenges you face and facilitate more effective intervention Support and intervention of cognitive difficulties, such as problems with memory, attention, and planning Support with the adjustment to a new health condition or with challenges related to a lifelong disability Strategies to improve emotional regulation, inclusive of anger, anxiety, or sadness Skills to facilitate social interactions, social communication, and connections with others

Positive Behaviour Support works to reduce or eliminate difficult behaviour and is the best approach for children and adults living with disability who display behaviours of concern. Specialist Behaviour Intervention Support This is for harmful behaviours where the Behaviour Support Plan may need to include the use of restrictive practices. Restrictive practices are things that limit the rights of a person, like being able to move around freely.  Behaviour Support Plan and training  Behaviour Support Plans include information about what triggers the behaviour and how to reduce or stop it from happening. A registered Behaviour Support Practitioner can work with your child therapists to put together a      Behaviour Support Plan that includes strategies and training to support your child and family. Our team of qualified and experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners are trained in behaviour support strategies. They start with a functional capacity assessment and use that to prepare a behaviour support plan, in consultation with you and your family or support people. The plan is aimed at making difficult behaviour unnecessary by removing the things that trigger, encourage or reward that behaviour. It will also teach you alternative and more appropriate behaviour to replace the difficult behaviour. Your plan may cover: Improved communication and social skills Environmental changes (e.g. the home environment) Safe methods of response to unsafe behaviours Stress and anger management A good plan will lead to more effective ways for you to communicate, resulting in improved relationships, better community participation, and a sense of independence over your own life. The reason why Positive Behaviour Support works so well is that it’s based on the idea that all behaviour serves a purpose, and difficult behaviour can be reduced if you know what someone is trying to achieve or communicate by behaving in this way. For instance, a child who lives with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may display aggressive behaviours at school that lead to suspensions. A functional assessment will find out the purpose of this behaviour, which may for example be linked to feelings of isolation and anxiety from being separated from working parents. It may find that misbehaving in the school environment and being sent home is the quickest way for the child to be reconnected to his parents and reduce his separation anxiety. The behaviour support plan may subsequently involve changing the child’s routines at home and at school, to create a greater sense of stability. For instance, regular family activities may foster feelings of connection and belonging, as would modifying work schedules to remove before and after school care.

Our passionate disability employment advisors work with school leavers and their families to prepare for the transition from school to further education or employment. We work with you on career guidance, counselling and developing your abilities, to get you ready for life beyond school.