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Event description

This summer, Vision Australia is offering individual intensive therapy programs for children and young people across Queensland. Sessions focus on your child’s goals, with opportunities to practise existing skills or learn something new during the school holidays.

Unlike usual ongoing services, intensives bring sessions closer together over a shorter period. This gives your child focused time to practise particular skills and build on what they’ve learnt from one session to the next.

Depending on your child’s needs, sessions may focus on communication, social confidence, everyday tasks, movement and coordination, or preparing for life after school. Support is available from physiotherapists, speech pathologists and occupational therapists.

Program locations

Over this summer period, our individual intensives will be available to clients in the following regions:

  • Brisbane
  • Gold Coast (QLD) and Northern Rivers (NSW)
  • Maroochydore

If you do not see your region available here, you can still access the program via online appointments (telepractice).

Funding options

Our programs are NDIS-funded under ‘Capacity Building’, and those who are not NDIS participants can self-fund.

If you have any questions, please contact our children and young people's team via [email protected].

Register

To reserve a place for your child in our summer individual intensives program, please submit your details via this form.

Complete the registration form

How we can help

Vision Australia is offering individual intensives in the following disciplines (note: not every discipline is available in every region).

Help your child explore sports and active recreation that match their interests and strengths, whether they’re trying something new or planning activities for life after school.

Depending on your child’s goals, sessions with a physiotherapist may focus on:

  • Choosing a sport or activity and exploring their current skills and support needs.
  • Practicing the skills and learning the rules needed to take part.
  • Building strength, balance, fitness and confidence in movement.
  • Preparing to join local clubs, teams or recreation programs.
  • Helping coaches and teammates understand how to make activities accessible and inclusive.

Activities may include goalball, blind tennis, blind cricket, soccer or blind football, swimming, athletics, dance, circus, cycling, rowing, sailing, triathlon, gymnastics and more.

For a child with complex support needs, this might mean exploring supported positions and movements to help them join in a favourite movement game. 

Help your child understand others, express themselves and connect with people in everyday situations.

Depending on your child’s goals, sessions with a speech pathologist may focus on:

  • Understanding language and expressing thoughts and ideas.
  • Speaking more clearly.
  • Noticing and playing with sounds in words - such as recognising rhymes, clapping syllables and identifying beginning sounds - to build foundations for reading and spelling.
  • Exploring accessible ways to communicate using touch, listening, tactile symbols, braille or technology.
  • Taking turns and joining conversations during daily routines and social activities.
  • Making choices, explaining their needs and asking for support.

For a child with complex support needs, this might mean using an object, gesture or communication device to choose a favourite song or ask for it again. 

Help your child build independence in everyday tasks and take part in activities that matter to them at home, at school and in the community.

Depending on your child’s goals, sessions with an occupational therapist may focus on:

  • Using tools, technology and different approaches to make everyday tasks and spaces easier to manage.
  • Developing hand and finger skills, using touch, hearing and awareness of body position to help with tasks.
  • Practicing dressing, grooming, cooking and household routines.
  • Joining in activities with others and practicing teamwork.
  • Exploring hobbies, creative activities and ways to take part in the community.
  • Setting goals for independence and explaining what support helps them take part.

For a child with complex support needs, this might mean exploring an adapted handle and support to hold a brush and take part in their hair-brushing routine.