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Allied Health Assistant Programs

What is an AHA? 
An Allied Health Assistant (AHA) is a member of the therapy team who works directly with your child, completing a therapy program written by their therapist(s). 

How does it work? 
Your child's therapist(s) will spend time writing a specific program working on your child's goals. The therapist(s) will continue to monitor the program and your child’s progress. The therapist(s) will update the goals and review your child on a term by term basis or as needed.  AHA is a great cost effective solution for attending regular sessions. 

Where can an AHA provide sessions? 
The AHA can implement the therapy program across a range of environments such as the Next Challenge clinic rooms, at home, school, daycare or in the community. This flexible service allows for specific therapy goals to be supported in a range of meaningful environments which a therapist may not have capacity to offer.  An example may be that an AHA supports your child to follow instructions (goal) whilst attending their local dance class (meaningful environment).

The AHA does not hold duty of care for your child during the therapy session. A parent/ carer/ responsible school staff is required to be present at the location of the session.
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Next Challenge acknowledges (ana) Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country (Boodja) throughout Australia. We (Ngalak) are committed to honouring, seeing, and understanding (kootadjinong) their unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waterways (bilya), and seas (wardarn). 

​Next Challenge wants to thank and pay respects to the Whadjuk people and Elders, past, present, and emerging, of the Noongar Nation, who have preserved and protected the land (kanana) and waterways (bilya) on which we continue to play (waabiny), live (djooroobidiny), learn (kadadjiny), work, and provide services on today (yey).
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  • Home
  • About
    • Values & Vision
    • How we work
    • Meet Our Team
    • Our Clinic
    • Join our team!
  • Services
    • Allied Health Services >
      • Speech & Language Therapy
      • Occupational Therapy
      • Feeding Therapy
      • Physiotherapy
      • Allied Health Assistant Programs
    • Workshops & Groups
    • Clinical Supervision
    • School Partnerships
  • Information
    • Useful Links >
      • General Links
      • Disability
      • Genetic conditions
    • Tips >
      • Speech & Language Tips
      • OT Tips
      • Physio Tips
      • Mealtimes Tips
    • NDIS >
      • Service Meetings
      • NDIS Roles & Responsibilities
  • Shop
    • Online Workshops
    • Caregiver Tools
    • Educator Tools
    • Assessment Tools
    • Therapist Tools
  • Contact us