Our OT team is highly experienced, well connected and has a deep knowledge of the sector. Our team at AQA is resourced by the diverse inputs of our staff and volunteers with lived experience of disability.
Our team’s skillset and passion is working with people with complex physical disabilities – like spinal cord injury and MS – enabling our clients to live the life they want. Whether it’s playing wheelchair rugby, independence at home, future careers or returning to work, our team are here to make it happen.
Home Modifications
From simple changes, such as a rubber ramp to modifications for a new home, we look at your capacity and how to help your environment work for you and not against you.
SDA Applications (Specialist Disability Accommodation)
Our team has a long standing history in understanding high-level complex needs, and we’re able to develop the detailed eligibility assessments to create successful outcomes. If you require specialised living with high-level support, get in touch and we’ll see if we can help.
Functional Capacity Reports
Helping you indicate progress and areas of improvement in reports.
Equipment Prescription
We’re experts in scripting manual or powered wheelchairs, adjustable beds, hoists and custom equipment.
Education, Training & More
Helping you adjust and gain confidence with new equipment, or aiding in the development of new skills for you or your support workers to use new equipment safely.
Community & Environment Assessments
Would you like to access your local area with more confidence? Our team will look at your capacity and local area to brainstorm and develop ideas to improve independence and access.
Pressure Care Management
As life changes you change; we look at your disability and immediate needs now and into the future. This allows us to consider the best approach for back and pressure care needs.
Rehab & Life changes
If you’re leaving rehab, or heading home after surgery and change in circumstance, we can partner with you and your healthcare provider to help ease some of the stress from this transition.
Holistic Approaches
We can work with your current team of providers or look at your requirements and see if any of our services may fit various gaps in your requirements.
AQA acknowledges that we live and work on lands stolen from the oldest continuous culture on earth. While our office is on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, we live and work on First Nations lands across Victoria. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, and that this was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. We pay our deepest respect to Elders past and present, and we thank them for holding wisdom and caring for country. We also acknowledge that AQA’s work of building a more caring and inclusive society - where everyone has the resources they need to live well - follows in the footsteps of a long and ongoing struggle of First Nations peoples across the continent to be afforded the self determination, respect and resources they need to live well.
Disability doesn’t discriminate, so our community is as diverse as the richly diverse culture we exist in. Having the fullest version of ourselves on display, seen and appreciated, is a fundamental aspect of living a full and meaningful life. It is also the foundation from which the full benefit of our capacity building and empowering supports are accessed. Recognising this, we have developed an organisational culture where diversity is not just thoughtfully and respectfully accommodated, but truly celebrated - be it ethnicity, religion, ability, age, gender, sexuality or gender identity.
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