Services

Services Provided

We provide community-based services to the Melbourne region including:

  • Communication assessments

  • Mealtime assessments

  • Implementation support

  • Training on complex communication, mealtime support, and consumer-directed care

  • Therapy/group therapy

  • Social communication support

  • Development of augmentative and alternative communication supports 

  • LGBTIQ+ affirming support

  • Easy-Read Resource Development

Client Focus

  • Adolescents/adults

  • Intellectual disability/developmental disability

  • Autism spectrum disorder

  • Profound and multiple disabilities

  • Mental health

  • Justice/juvenile justice

  • Complex trauma

 

Specialisations

  • Trauma-informed approaches to complex communication assessment and intervention.

  • Supporting communication, inclusion and meaningful engagement for people with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD), Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and sensory processing differences.

  • Social Communication (e.g., skills that support the development of meaningful friendships and an understanding of the social world) and facilitating social inclusion. Including paired and group peer learning and working with support workers to assist individuals to enter the broader social world outside of disability-specific contexts.

  • Using a positive behaviour support lens to understand and support communicative functions of behaviours of concern.

  • Video Based Instruction (VBI) to support intervention with individuals and to train families and staff teams to facilitate the required intervention.

  • Facilitating successful transitions (e.g., school, work, accommodation etc.) that ensure the person is informed and prepared for changes.

  • Person-centred Active Support.

  • Consumer-directed care and improving choice and control for clients.

  • Comprehensive mealtime assessment and intervention (for eating/drinking issues and dysphagia).

Easy-Read Resource Development

Easy Read is a way to present information for people who have a learning disability, literacy difficulties or low English language skills. It is a way of using Easy English principles and imagery to simplify, streamline and explain information. We are able to develop Easy Read resources to support people to understand complex topics. We have experience in developing Easy Read information on legal matters, NDIS services, and relationships/consent.