We Provide
Active Occupational Therapy is a registered service provider with NDIS, Medicare, Northern Territory Government Top End Health Service, Private Insurers, and Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
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Driving
Driving is often an important part of a person’s lifestyle, representing freedom and independence. It is however, a complex task involving physical ability, vision, cognitive ability and emotional skills. Any changes or loss of function in any one of these abilities due to ageing, illness or injury, may affect a person’s ability to drive.
Sometimes people are not aware of changes in their abilities and need to be guided by their health professionals and family about their driving ability.
Active Occupational Therapist, Gerard Bredhauer, aims to work with people to help them be as independent as possible. He has completed specialised post-graduate training in driving and can help when people experience changes in their ability to drive.
Activity of Daily living assessment and retraining
Active Occupational Therapy provides assessment and task specific re-training including use of compensatory aids to individuals with a neurological impairment residing in the community who have difficulties performing daily activities.
Assistive Technology
People use equipment, technology, and devices every day to make their lives easier.
Assistive technology refers to equipment, technology or devices that help you participate in activities you can’t ordinarily do because of your disability. Assistive technology may help you perform a task more easily or safely. Assistive technology involves things designed to improve your quality of daily life.
Active Occupational Therapy provides support to individuals in the selection, use and application for funding of assistive technology.
Cognitive Re-training
Active Occupational Therapy provides cognitive-based rehabilitation for people who experience perceptual, attention, concentration, executive functioning, apraxia, and spatial awareness difficulties. This may include task analysis, activity alteration, task specific re-training and environmental adaption in a home-based meaningful setting.
Home Modifications
Home modifications are changes to the structure, layout, design or fittings of a participant’s home that are required as a result of a disability. Home modifications enable individuals to safely access and move around frequently used areas in their home.
Active Occupational Therapy can make recommendations relating to home modifications so that you can continue to stay in your own home safely and independently.
Neurological Upper Limb Therapy
Upper limb impairment is a common problem for people with neurological disabilities, affecting activity, performance, quality of life, and independence.
Active Occupational Therapy can provide upper limb therapy using an individualised, problem solving, systems approach to motor control, with particular emphasis on movement analysis and motor recovery.
Both Kim and Gerard have undergone training in the ‘Bobath concept of normal movement’ and Upper limb Performance Assessment and Intervention.
Supported Independent Living Assessments
Supported Independent Living (SIL) is help or supervision with daily tasks to help you live as independently as possible, while building your skills.
SIL is paid personal supports. It includes things like having someone to help with personal care tasks or cooking meals. SIL can help you build these skills too, so you can be more independent.
SIL happens in your home. You can get SIL if you live in a home with other people. You can also get SIL if you live on your own, but there might be other Personal Care Supports that suit you better.
SIL funding can’t be used for things like rent or other day-to-day expenses like groceries.
You can find more information on SIL funding in the NDIS SIL Operational Guideline.
Active Occupational Therapy can provide an assessment and report to assist you with your application for supported independent living NDIS funding.
Specialised Disability Accommodation Assessments
Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) is a range of housing designed for people with extreme functional impairment or very high needs. SDA homes are constructed to be more accessible for you. They enable better or safer delivery of other supports you may need.
SDA usually involves a shared home with a small number of other people. You might also be able to live in SDA by yourself if that option best meets your needs and circumstances.
The aim of SDA is to make accessing supports easier. For example, you might need a home with reinforced ceilings so you can get a ceiling hoist installed.
When the NDIS talk about SDA, they mean funding for the cost of the home or building you live in. Usually you will still need to pay rent or other personal costs to live in SDA. SDA also doesn’t include the services or support you might get in that home.
Active Occupational Therapy can provide an assessment and report to assist your application for Specialised Disability Accommodation NDIS funding.
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