Assessments & Reports

Jessie is highly experienced in completing the following:

• Functional Capacity Assessment (FCA)

• Home And Living Assessment

• Supported Independent Living (SIL)

• Individualised Living Options (ILO)

• Sensory Assessment.

Jessie provides the following point of difference with OT assessments and reporting, compared to other service providers:

• Solid understanding of support needs and categories, particularly across adolescence.

• Advocating for additional diagnoses being accepted by NDIS.

• Advocating for changing support needs for transitioning from secondary school to post-secondary school life.

• Identifying support needs to move out of the family home.

• Outlining support needs to move from a foster care placement to a long-term adult accommodation.

• Communicating fluctuating support needs, commonly occurring with Autistic young people and those with psychosocial disabilities.

• "The last resort" reports, including when initial recommendations from other assessments were not accepted by NDIS.

• Exposure to various assessment, reporting and language styles, through editing and providing recommendations for reports for fellow OTs.

Ongoing Therapy

Jessie is highly experienced in providing client-centred, trauma-informed, neuro-affirming and strengths-based capacity-building therapy across the following areas:

• Understanding and responding to sensory processing differences, including sensory sensitivities and sensory cravings/seeking.

• Building awareness of internal body sensations, such as hunger, fullness, thirst, temperature, bathroom needs and pain signals.

• Recognising and regulating emotions in a healthy and compassionate way.

• Understanding puberty, sexuality, gender expression and relationships.

• Increasing attention, organisational skills, time-management and other functional cognitive skills, in ways that actually work.

• Building independence with self-care tasks, household tasks, safety, community-based and social activities.

• Improving mental health outcomes through fully participating in what is meaningful to you (aka your occupations!).

• Facilitating school and workplace participation, addressing "school can't" and removing barriers to engagement.

• Proactively supporting key transitions, such as primary school to secondary school, secondary school to post-secondary school activities, and moving out of home.

• Prescribing basic (Level 1) and standard (Level 2) assistive technology to promote safety, participation and engagement.

• Collaborating with and educating parents, schools, workplaces, support workers and your broader care team to maximise the effectiveness of supports in-between therapy sessions.