Allied health
Support to build up the skills that matter to you, for better quality of life.
What is allied health?
Allied health covers a range of different specialist services, delivered by qualified and registered health professionals.
Our allied health services are all about improving your quality of life with strategies for thinking, emotions, behaviour, speech, swallowing and movement.
St John of God Accord allied health services
- Psychology: support and cognitive assessments for social skills, relationships, emotions and transitions.
- Positive behaviour support: improving quality of life using positive strategies.
- Music therapy: using music therapy interventions to support your functional goals (including physical, cognitive, social communication and psychosocial).
- Occupational therapy: tailored support for redesigning your home environment, equipment prescription, and building skills to live more independently.
- Physiotherapy: working toward better movement, pain management and less stiffness.
- Speech pathology: support to improve speech, language, communication options, swallowing and meal times.
- Therapy assistant: stretch your NDIS budget further by alternating with a therapy assistant.
Where do we provide allied health?
We can provide allied health anywhere within a 30 minute drive of our Greensborough, Glenroy, Sydenham or Scoresby offices.
How can we support people through allied health?
Our diverse and experienced team can provide assessments to help you understand your strengths, areas for improvement and your starting point.
We then use this information to set meaningful goals with you and build a personalised plan to improve your quality of life.
This can look very different for different people, but some examples include:
- psychology to help you understand your brain and manage emotions
- speech pathology to help with communication, swallowing and social interactions
- music therapy to improve your social/communication skills, mood/behaviour, movement and motor skills and cognition
- physiotherapy for better movement, strength and balance
- occupational therapy to improve daily living skills like dressing, bathing and cooking
- music therapy to improve your speech, mood and wellbeing.
Who can access allied health?
Allied health is typically funded from the ‘Capacity Building’ category of your NDIS plan, under ‘Improved daily living’ or ‘Improved health and wellbeing’.
We can help you understand your NDIS plan and funding — please contact us using the form below for more information.