At the start of your journey with SWAT, you will be partnered with a Key Worker, the lead therapist who will be your guide and contact person throughout the therapy process, answering any questions you might have along the way. Through an active partnership with you and your support network, your Key Worker will develop practical and functional therapy plans that target your independence and develop community opportunities.

The Key Worker assigned to you will:

• Get to know you and your family.

• Learn about your routines and resources in your everyday environments.

• Collaborate with you to develop goals and action plans.

• Seek advice and support from SWAT team members and connect you with additional therapy supports as needed.

• Coordinate your therapy schedules and act as a bridge with the rest of the team involved in your service plan.

• Supporting clients to improve their ability to perform everyday tasks

• Developing tool

• Supporting clients to participate in self-care tasks including toileting, dressing, showering

• Supporting clients to participate in domestic activities including meal preparation, cleaning, money management, transport

• Prescription of assistive technology

• Emotional and self-regulation skills

• Social skills

• Home modifications and environmental reviews

• Shaping helpful and safe behaviours

• Facilitating CLUBs

More information on Occupational Therapy.

• Mobility issues

• Prescribing and training use of equipment efficiently and effectively

• Motor planning

• Stability and balance support

• Posture

• Serial casting

• Hydrotherapy

• Gross motor development support

More information on Physiotherapy.

• Developing, prescribing and ongoing support with Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC)

• Speech processes and speech clarity support

• Auditory comprehension therapy

• Expressive language therapy

• Learning to express and understand emotions, feelings and social behaviour.

• Social skills support

• Developing social stories

• Voice quality and volume therapy

• Swallowing assessments and exercises

• Therapy for Apraxia, Aphasia and Dysarthria

• Literacy skills support

More information on Speech Pathology.

Personalised nutrition advice, strategies and support to help improve physical and mental wellbeing, including education to understand how nutrition impacts the body.

Areas we can help with:

• Fussy eating

• Transition to solids

• Poor bowel movements

• Nutrient deficiencies

• Disordered eating

• Allergies and intolerances

• Chronic conditions

• Enteral feeding plans and management

• Supplementation to support intake

• Cooking sessions

• Educational shopping tours

• Meal planning

Note: There is a difference between the services provided by Dietitians and Nutritionists. Dietitians are qualified to provide a Nutritionists range of evidence-based nutrition services, but in addition, Dietitians have the expertise to provide individual dietary counselling, medical nutrition therapy, group dietary therapy and foodservice management.

More information on Dietetics.

SWAT provide you with evidenced based counselling and psychological interventions to support your mental health and wellbeing. We offer face-to-face consultations within our clinical settings, the community, home visits and also offer online/telehealth services.

Our Psychologists specialise in:

• Child Psychology

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• Depression/ Low Mood Management

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

• Eating Disorders

• Emotional Regulation

• Exposure Therapy

• Grief and Loss Counselling

• Improving Self-esteem

• Mood and Anxiety Management

• Peer Relations/ Social Skills Training

• Psychometric Testing (including IQ and adaptive behaviour assessments)

• Schema Therapy

• Separation Anxiety

• Sleep Management

• Stress Management

• Transitioning and Change Management

• Trauma Counselling

More information on Psychology.

Providing support for clients of all ages, in homes, schools and within the community, to develop: 

• Functional Literacy & Numeracy 

• School readiness skills for early childhood 

• Work readiness skills (including SLES) 

• Fine motor skills 

• In school support to manage and adapt environment, resources and behaviours. 

• Social skills support (including PEERS®) 

• Supporting structure and routine in daily living activities.

Blue Wren Work Skills Project builds capabilities within a simulated work environment, utilising the knowledge base of a transdisciplinary allied therapy team.  

Work Skill Coaches will collaborate with clients to explore work experience options. Clients learn and practise skills that are essential to functioning in a workplace within a safe environment. Best practice principles are incorporated when supporting the development and consolidation of these skills to empower clients to transfer skills to different environments. Our supports are person-centred and individualised with an emphasis on providing a range of work skill experiences. 

Clients will then be supported within the chosen workplace to apply their skills and achieve success, with the goal of moving to open employment, supported employment or to pursue a micro enterprise.