SERVICE STRUCTURE
We believe in working together as a team with families, carers, teachers and parents to deliver effective intervention services that support a family’s goals.
Assessment and Therapy Services:
Initial Assessment
Our initial assessment sessions generally integrate assessment tasks into play to gain information about a child’s everyday skills that we can then use to plan therapy. From this session we learn about a child’s skills, support the family to identify goals, provide home programs to support these goals and discuss additional services as required. The initial assessment does not include a written report, however this can be requested as an additional service.
Standardised Assessments
Our Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists are able to administer standardised assessments specifically used for funding applications, diagnostic purposes or intervention planning. These could include a full language assessment, sensory profile or assessments for fine and gross motor or visual perception. Assessments can take up to three hours to complete and include a comprehensive report.
Treatment/Intervention Sessions
We tailor our intervention sessions to meet the needs of a child. A session typically lasts for 45 minutes with the therapist, with an additional 15 minutes billed for non-contact tasks, including reading previous notes, selecting and setting up resources, documenting the content of the session and packing away after you've gone. When appropriate we may combine sessions to take place with both your Speech Pathologist and Occupational Therapist in the same time slot.
Allied Health Assistant Programs
Out Loud can provide Allied Health Assistant (AHA) programs in Bunbury and surrounding suburbs to children whose goals and behaviour are appropriate for this style of therapy. An AHA program offers weekly therapy support by an AHA under the supervision of a child's Speech Pathologist/Occupational Therapist and is a service that can be provided in a school setting.
Additional Services:
Meetings
Our team can arrange to attend meetings with schools and other therapy providers by phone or telehealth, including meetings held to create or discuss Individual Education Plans (IEP), meetings with other treating therapists, or to provide assistance to transition to/from another service provider.
Reports
Out Loud's therapists can assist to provide letters to support requests for funding or special provisions in the school environment and create therapy summaries or handover reports for your new service provider. Most formal assessments conducted by our therapists will be accompanied by a formal report. If you are accessing NDIS funding, your child's therapist/s will also create a progress report as your plan nears its end.
Out Loud does not write reports to represent families in Family Court.