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NDIS Occupational Therapy

Guide Healthcare’s NDIS Occupational Therapy services aim to help people complete the activities they need and want to do each day. Occupational therapy (OT) treatments focus on assisting people to be as independent as possible in all aspects of their lives. By improving independence and working towards meaningful goals, we can help people achieve a better quality of life. Our clinicians work with people with a physical, sensory, psychosocial or cognitive disability.

Would you like to make a referral? Please complete the form below and email to ndis@guidehealthcare.com.au.

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About the service

Guide’s Occupational Therapists can support your NDIS plan with assistive technology, home modifications, capacity building, improved daily living assessments and subsequent recommendations.

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How does it work?

Occupational Therapy services are covered by the NDIS. Occupational Therapy can exist in various sections of your NDIS plan, as core support, capital support or capacity-building support. Our Occupational Therapists can also assist in prescribing appropriate capital supports.

Core Supports

Core supports are supports that enable NDIS participants to complete activities of daily living and enable participants to work towards their goals and meet their objectives. Transport and assistance with household tasks are examples of core supports.

Capital Supports

Capital supports are supports that form an investment. Assistive technologies, such as equipment and home modifications, are types of capital supports.

Capacity Building Supports

Capacity building supports are supports that enable NDIS participants to build their independence and skills. Workplace assistance and community participation activities are examples of capacity building supports.

Our mobile Occupational Therapists have all of the equipment they need to carry out in-home treatments and assessments of any type.

Whatever you need, our Occupational Therapists will complete an assessment and provide personalised and effective services to help you do the things you want and need to do.

Our NDIS occupational therapy support services may include:

✓ Skill development in self-care, self-management, home management

✓ Planning for reintegration into community, work or educational endeavours

✓ Education and support of individuals, including family members, caregivers, and others

✓ Assistive technology assessments for specialised equipment prescription such as specialised seating, wheelchairs, beds, mattresses, shower chairs, commodes and lifting aids such as sling hoists

✓ Assistance with driving collaboration and developing consultative partnerships with key stakeholders

✓ Care coordination, case management, transition services including advocacy and onward referral to relevant services

✓ Modification of home environments including bathroom redesign, kitchen remodelling, the process of creating ramp access, installation of stairlifts and handrail placement to ensure safety and accessibility

✓ Completion of Supported Disability Accommodation Assessments (SIA) and Supported Independent Living Assessments (SIL)

✓ Manual handling training and recommendations around the adaptation of processes and tasks, including the application of ergonomic principles

✓ Assessment, customisation and oversight of equipment provision, including orthotic devices, and training in the use of prosthetic devices

✓ Prescription of mobility and community ambulation devices, including mobility scooters and electric wheelchairs

✓ Use of a range of specific therapeutic procedures to enhance performance such as wound care management, techniques to enhance sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processing, and manual therapy technique skills

✓ Implementation of falls prevention programs