Our Allied health team is highly experienced, well connected and has a deep knowledge of the sector. All backed by our organisation’s background, influenced by our organisations 35+ year history of integrating lived experience into service delivery. Our team at AQA is resourced by the diverse input of staff and volunteers with lived experience of disability, including a mix of traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injuries and a range of other complex disabilities.
Our team’s passion is working with people with complex physical disabilities – like spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis and other similar physical or neurological conditions – enabling people to live the life they want. Whether it’s the passion and clash of playing wheelchair rugby, or looking toward independence at home, future careers or returning to work/study, we look at ways to make your goals happen. If we can’t help, then we ask – if not us, who?
Our Occupational Therapists (OT) can work with you to achieve your goals, review your functional capacity. Each situation is about you, you’re involved at every step of the process, and together we’ll work toward the most effective solution for you. We partner with our clients, until reaching a comfortable outcome looking at new techniques or equipment to ultimately achieve your goal.
November 7,2021
November 7,2021
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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