Therapy Services

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Occupational Therapy Service Team:

Maike Creaser - OT, 3 days

Anna Hill - OT, 3 days

Amy Ahearn - OT, 5 days

Jessica Nguyen - OT, 5 days

Occupational Therapy Support Services:

• Play Skills - (learn to play) Karen Stagnetti program

• Life Skills - self-care in grooming, dressing, mealtimes, cooking, toileting

• Social Safety - concepts that include privacy, personal space, human development, body changes

• Fine motor skills - handwriting

• Sensory processing and integration - Alert program, Crash and Bash Room

• Establishing, refining and adapting environments to support learning

• Community access 

• Work experience and future pathways support

• Travel Education

• Mini Woolies Co-ordination

• ensure Student Profiles are updated and current for each student in allocated section

• Liaison with parents, specialist and staff

• Liaison between Yarrabah School and Network Schools

• Equipment 

Speech Therapy Service team:

Laura Lagier- Speech Therapist, 5 days

Jessica Xie - Speech Therapist, 5 days

Joslyn Abraham - Speech Therapist, 5 days

Speech Therapy Support Services:

• Assessment, planning, modelling and training

• Language (words and sentences)

• Speech (sounds in words)

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication - AAC

(using signs/symbols to communicate as verbal language develops)

• Play, social skills and interaction

(Karen Stagnetti's ‘Learn to Play’  program, Intensive Interaction)

• Mealtime assisting and feeding support (Food Adventurers)

• DIPs support documentation and meetings

• Liaison with parents, specialist and staff

• Liaison between Yarrabah School and Network Schools

Physiotherapy Support Service Team:

Sarah Jenkins - Physiotherapist (4 days)

Physiotherapy Support Services:

• Mobility/transfers

• Equipment - seating, wheelchair, walkers, standing frame

• Hydrotherapy

• Gross motor

• Walking (gait)

• Manual handling

• Injury concern

• DIP related

• Liaison with parents, specialists and staff