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📌5 key takeaways Comfort and familiarity boost therapy outcomes: Evidence shows that clients learn and retain skills better when therapy is delivered in environments where they feel safe and relaxed—typically their home or community settings. Real-world practice supports skill generalisation: Practicing goals in the actual settings where they’ll be used (like a supermarket or workplace) […]

📌5 key takeaways Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a misunderstood neurotype within Autism Spectrum Disorder, characterised by a strong emotional response to demands, even enjoyable ones. PDA is not a standalone diagnosis but a subtype of Autism, often identified during Autism Assessments by experienced health professionals. Core characteristics of PDA include resisting routine demands, using […]

AAC stands for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Essentially, AAC refers to different ways of communicating other than using verbal speech! Learning to use AAC takes time and requires motivation from the user and their caregivers. Motivating kids and teens is not always an easy task, so in this blog, we’ll share some tips on promoting […]

Most allied health professionals will tell you that they love doing what they do because it gives them the privilege of being able to witness people’s lives change – and our Superyou Therapy and Superyou Tech clinicians are no different.

Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) is a special kind of therapy where amazing animals work alongside trained therapists to help people reach their goals. It’s like having a furry (or feathery, or even scaly!) friend cheering you on.

A Functional Capacity Assessment (FCA) is an occupational therapy evaluation based on you and the activities you participate in daily. It’s guided by you and your family within your natural environments to ensure we identify the most suitable supports for you, now and into the future.

So, what happens when you can’t drive due to a medical condition or disability, or if you require extra supports or equipment to gain your driver’s licence? In these circumstances, a Driver Trained Occupational Therapist can assist you to learn or return to driving by completing an Occupational Therapy Driver Assessment.

Through my 10-year career as an Occupational Therapist, there have been many occasions where a client has come to me, with a catalogue for a piece of equipment and asked, “will this work for me?” and my answer has sometimes been, “I don’t know”.

This means that we provide services to our clients in their homes, at work, in school or in other community settings. While we have clinic rooms at our metropolitan hubs that can be used for therapy sessions, we always prefer to provide services to people in environments they are familiar with.

This week is Speech Pathology Week, where we get to celebrate the profession we love, and the people we have the privilege of supporting.