Our Services
Baisie Therapy Services team currently consists of Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Educators and Allied Health Assistants.
Our Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and Educators provide intervention to children aged 0-12 years including private fee-for-service and NDIS plan and self managed clients.
Allied Health Assistants (AHA) are utlised in our Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy service model to provide further options to our clients and families when looking at the most suitable options available to meet therapy outcomes.
Speech Pathology
What is a Speech Pathologist?
"Speech Pathologists study, diagnose and treat communication disorders, including difficulties with speech, language, fluency and voice" - Speech Pathology Australia
What does a Speech Pathologist do?
The scope of a speech pathologist role is extraordinarily broad and includes supporting those with difficulties in speech production, speaking in sentences, listening and understanding language, reading, writing, social skills, stuttering and using voice. People who experience difficulties swallowing food and drink safely can also be helped by a speech pathologist.
Who can a Speech Pathologist help?
Speech Pathologists can work with children and adults who have difficulty communicating for a range of reasons including developmental delays, learning disability, intellectual disability, brain injuries including stroke, dementia, and hearing loss, as well as other difficulties that can affect speech and language.
Occupational Therapy
What is an Occupational Therapist?
Occupational Therapists help children develop the skills they need to participate in daily life
What does an Occupational Therapist do?
Occupational Therapists work across a large scope based on the individual person's functional goals to "achieve optimal health and wellbeing through participation in the occupations of life" - Occupational Therapy Australia. These activities include taking care of oneself (and others), working, volunteering, and participating in hobbies, interests and social events.
Who can a Occupational Therapist help?
Occupational Therapists can work with adults, children and families to help them successfully participate in the activities they find meaningful i.e. their interests, jobs or daily self-care tasks. Occupational Therapists can work with children with developmental delays, ADHD, Autism, Intellectual Disabilities and more.
Allied Health Assistants
Our therapy assistant model
Baisie's Allied Health Assistants (AHA) work under the supervision of our Speech Pathologists to provide individualised programs specifically designed for each client based on their personalised goals to meet therapy outcomes. The benefit of working with AHA's is that often there is capacity to provide more regular and intensive service delivery in a highly cost efficient manner.
Sessions with an AHA start with a joint session with both the Speech Pathologist and AHA with the family to review goals and set the program. Once established the AHA and Speech Pathologist meet each week to review the client program and adjust accordingly. To meet an ever growing need for speech pathology intervention, our AHA model in provided rotationally with home programs, that is 1:1 weekly one term, home program the next term, returning to 1:1 with reviews with the speech pathologist between.
