Children & Young Adults with a Disability

Physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology services are available to children and young adults with a disability who may need assistance to reach their full potential developmentally, physically and academically.

Wize Therapy specialises in services to children and young adults with:

  • Sensory processing difficulties
  • Handwriting and general fine motor delay
  • Learning and language difficulties
  • Global Developmental Delay
  • Cerebral Palsy and Acquired Brain Injury
  • Down syndrome and other chromosomal disorders
  • Spina Bifida
  • Autism

Across the disciplines our therapists are trained in a range of contemporary therapeutic evidence based approaches that include:

  • Prompt
  • Hanen techniques
  • Serial casting and upperlimb and lower limb splinting
  • Makaton key word signing
  • Alternative and augmentative communication techniques and devices
  • Manutention;
  • Post Botulinum Toxin A (Botox) intervention
  • PRPP: Perceive Recall Plan and Perform
  • DIR Floortime
  • Bobath Neuro-Developmental Therapy
  • Sensory Processing and Integration
  • Therapeutic Listening
  • Sleep Wise and Toilet Time
  • Equipment prescription including wheelchair, wheelchair inserts and mobility aids
  • Home assessment and modifications.