Learn Sense Grow

MOBILE SERVICES

Learn Sense Grow offer’s mobile paediatric Occupational Therapy services in and around Adelaide. Our professional Occupational Therapists can come to your school, home community group or sporting association and provide the following:

• Individual or group private OT session.
• Workshops / Information Sessions for teaching staff, parents, students and the community designed to provide them with intervention tools to assist certain diagnoses or sensory, developmental, social and learning challenges.
• Modification to the school and classroom environments in relation to sensory integration. This may include assessment and recommendations for particular tools, equipment, sensory rooms and play environments.
• Training and development courses for educators to further enhance their knowledge base, understanding, professional skills and strategies to facilitate with individual children or the whole class.

This may include

• Attention and concentration skills
• Sensory and perceptual skills for learning
• Auditory/ listening skills
• Fine motor skills
• Gross motor skills
• Learning skills
• Social skills
• Handwriting
• Developmental milestones
• Sensory Processing Disorders and Sensory Integration
• Specific Programs

• Consultation and implementation of correct ergonomic workstation setups.

SERVICES IN THE CLINIC

At Learn Sense Grow, we aim to assist children in their earlier years to enable them to participate in more independent, meaningful and fulfilling life roles. Our paediatric Occupational Therapy programs are designed and run by therapists specialising in child development and the activities within these programs are graded to meet individual children’s needs. Sessions are developed with kids in mind to ensure that they are fun, positive, achievable, engaging, stimulating and playful.

Our Occupational Therapists are experienced in working with a range of children’s limitations that may result from, but are not restricted to, sensory processing disorders, developmental delays, spectrum disorders, learning difficulties and specific diagnoses or concerns. Learn Sense Grow can assist you if your child has difficulty with one or more of the following areas:

• Fine motor tasks
• Gross motor tasks, movement, coordination, balance and ball skills
• Sensory and perceptual skills for learning
• Handwriting, drawing, spelling and written comprehension
• Posture, strength and endurance
• Understanding directions and spatial awareness
• Concentration, attention and/or completing school work
• Planning and organisational skills in the classroom and at home
• Lack of interest
• Social learning and competency skills
• Behavioural issues
• Independence in self-care, i.e. dressing
• Difficulty coping with stress, change and/or new environments
• School readiness

Evaluation

The needs of each child are thoroughly assessed in the context of their life and the
environments with which they operate. This may involve:

• Interviews
• Observations
• Checklists
• Physical Evaluation of Primitive Reflexes, Posture, Strength and Range of Motion
• Formal / Standardised assessment and reporting

Assessment Tools

• Sensory Processing Measure (SPM)
• Sensory Processing Measure Pre-school (SPM-P)
• Test for Auditory and Visual Skills (TAVS)
• Scan-3C
• Beery’s Buktenica Developmental Test for Visual Motor Integration (Beery’s VMI)
• Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Brief (BOT-2 Brief)
• Millers Function and Participation Scales (M-FUN_PS)
• Informal dynamic social skills assessment

TELEHEALTH SERVICES

At Learn Sense Grow we also offer Telehealth services, providing OT sessions with your child. These sessions are highly interactive and are developed to meet the goals of your child, whilst using practical and simple equipment that you can find in your environment. A convenient way to deliver effective therapy and reach families that are otherwise unable to access services, whilst also supporting families to have a better understanding of what they can do to support their child at home. Please contact us to discuss if this is a viable option for you.

Learn Sense Grow has also created a series of downloadable and sensory printouts
that are now available here

GROUP PROGRAMS

Learn Sense Grow offers regular holiday programs designed to focus on a range of skill sets including motor skill development (fine, gross and visual), school readiness and social programs embedding social competency skills and daily living skills. Join our mailing list or follow our Facebook page to see what fun programs are on offer. We also offer Taylor made programs for interested groups and can offer our Social Learning Program in a clinic or school setting, dependent on numbers and children’s needs and ages.

FAMILY SUPPORT

Learn Sense Grow’s services don’t just start and end with an Occupational Therapy
session. The entire team believe that a holistic approach is what provides a child with the best environment in which to flourish. Learn Sense Grow can provide your family with further information that you may need to support the whole family such as with details on how to navigate the NDIS, how to access it and gain support with funding and management.

The team can also let you know what information is out there to access support, tools for other family members and tips on how to work with your child’s school.

Learn Sense Grow can discuss with you options for support in school, around the home or at other places your family may visit. They can also provide information on how to manage holiday periods and what support bodies/groups are accessible. Plus, they keep themselves up to date with all the latest changes in NDIS laws and online resources such as relevant links and podcasts.

So, no matter what query you may have, please do not hesitate to ask us here at Learn Sense Grow as we have been happily helping to support families in this way for many years.

FEES

At Learn Sense Grow we are mindful of the financial challenges supporting your child can create. Please review the options available to support OT services for your child or contact us to discuss further.

National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

Learn Sense Grow is a NDIS registered provider for Occupational Therapy and can offer support services to clients who have Agency Managed, Plan Managed and Self Managed plans.
 
Agency Managed – NDIS provide payment direct to the service provider Learn Sense Grow. Areas of registration for Agency Managed clients is limited to Therapeutic Supports. 

Plan Managed – A third party provider is responsible for claiming the participants NDIS funding.  Invoices will be sent direct to your selected Plan Manager for payment.  

Self Managed – You are responsible for all payments of invoices. Invoices will be sent direct to you for payment. Occupational Therapy services are billed in accordance with the NDIS Price Guide,  Price guides and pricing | NDIS
For specific information on NDIS and to determine if your child is eligible for funding through this scheme visit National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). 
 

Medicare Plans

There are a variety of funding options and Medicare rebates available to eligible families. Eligibility for these plans is determined by your Doctor, Paediatrician or Psychiatrist. 
 
GP Mental Health (Better Access) Plan – for access to Occupational therapy. This plan must be completed by your GP/Paediatrician/Psychiatrist prior to your first appointment and entitles the recipient up to a total of 20 rebates per calendar year. Your doctor will refer you for up to 6 sessions at a time. Only suitably qualified practitioners can service this plan, please contact us to discuss further. For further information about the GP Mental Health (Better Access) Plan visit Department of Health | Better access to mental health care: fact sheet for patients 
 
Chronic Disease Management Plan – This plan formally known as the Enhanced Primary Care Plan must be prepared by your GP and can provide people with a chronic or complex medical need access to up to 5 rebates per calendar year. 
For further information about the Chronic Disease Management Plan visit Department of Health | Chronic Disease Management Patient Information 
 

Private Health

Please contact your Private Health fund to determine the level of cover you might have of Occupational Therapy support.

Use the following reference codes when contacting your Private Health fund:
100 – initial consult
200 – subsequent consult