Allied Health Care Services in Sydney
At We Care, our allied health services include a team of professionals that can aid in simplifying your everyday life.
Examples on the multiple allied health professionals:
Occupational therapy
An occupational therapist (OT) helps people with a disability to be as independent as possible in daily tasks. As the name implies, it includes the therapeutic use of activities and skill development in self care, as well as in the community, work, school, and home.
What can they help with?
- Getting dressed, showering, and cleaning up
- Using a pencil or pen and writing
- Cooking and eating using utensils
- Gross motor skills- everything from walking and climbing stairs to hopping, jumping, catching and throwing a ball
- Sensory therapy- this is if you find it hard to understand or respond to loud noises, bright lights, tastes, or other sensory input, in addition to their mental processing
- Wound care and case management and discharge planning
What can they help with?
- Stuttering in high school students for example that wish to be more confident speaking in class
- Aiding children with developmental delay or cerebral palsy
- Improving speech clarity in those after a stroke or brain injury
- How to Listen, understand and follow directions for those with learning/intellectual disabilities (Down syndrome)
- Using communication assistive devices and aid for hearing loss for instance
