Cathy Maloney in Hobart, Tasmania | Speech pathologist

Cathy Maloney

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 411 217 147

Address: GPO Box 33 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.therapytasmania.com.au

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25.01.2022 It's almost a wrap for Down Syndrome Awareness Month and the #21YourWay campaign! What a huge success! We want to do a big shout out to everyone who participat...ed in #21YourWay, whether through a personal challenge, by donating, or by raising awareness. What a bunch of legends you all are. Because of your support the Down Syndrome Federation are able to continue with our work all across the country. Well done

25.01.2022 STORYTIME: Join Australian author, mother and superwoman Turia Pitt, reading from the bestselling book Ten Sleepy Sheep by Renee Treml. Grab a cuppa, settle the little ones and enjoy storytime!

25.01.2022 Spot the difference? LAC or NDIS Planner? LACs (Local Area Coordinators)... help most NDIS participants by holding the planning meeting, and collecting all yo...ur information. Some LACs hand that info on to the NDIS who build and approve the plan, but many LACs are able to build a plan based on your info, and then send that "draft" to the NDIS for their budget approval by an "NDIS delegate". LACs are usually local to your area, and should also help you understand and use your plan and the MyPlace portal, if you do not have Support Coordination fund allocated to help with that. LACs have NO power to approve or change NDIS funding, though they can help you with a review request. NDIS Planners... help a smaller number of NDIS participants, usually those with the most complex needs and/or situations in their planning meetings. NDIS Planners are employed directly by the NDIS, and many (but not all) are appointed as NDIS "delegates", which means they get to approve plan funding amounts. There are different levels of "delegates" so when a requested plan budget is a fair amount higher than what would normally be expected for a person with those particular needs or situations, the plan may need to go to a "higher level delegate" to be approved. Participants who have their planning meeting with an NDIS Planner are more likely to have Support Coordination included in their plans, because of their more complex needs and/or situation. Participants dont really get to choose whether their plan is done by an LAC or planner, though you can of course ask to have a planner if you think your needs and/or situation is among the most complex. This post is copyright of The Growing Space 2020 image desc: a cartoon drawing of two very similar trains with a carriage each. There are a few differences between the two images, like one has a red wheel while the other has a yellow wheel. It is a "spot the difference" type image.

25.01.2022 Look, follow, chat, take turns, and stretchThese 5 actions grow your childs brain power. See how you can use the science of early learning to help your child thrive. https://www.vroom.org/

23.01.2022 Filmmaker Audrey OConnor lives with Down Syndrome. She hopes her new film, based on her experience in high school, will pave the way for a more diverse film industry in Australia.

22.01.2022 What activities do you like to do when you go to the park or garden? See if you can sign them when you go outside! Note: This footage was filmed before the r...ecent coronavirus lockdown in Melbourne. Please stay safe and follow your states coronavirus restrictions. For more information and resources on Key Word Sign, visit our website www.kwsa.com.au

21.01.2022 This is beautiful Watch Yeronga Sth Brisbane Football Club surprise their teammate Jamie, who is deaf, with an AUSLAN rendition of their club victory song ov...er the weekend. It was all organised as a surprise by team captain Mia. What an absolutely wonderful AFL Womens team. : Yeronga Sth Brisbane Football Club

20.01.2022 If you have the MyPlayHome apps, a new update adds face masks-Maya is loving them!

19.01.2022 Calling all the KWS dads out there! Were looking for videos and stories to share on our page in the lead-up to Fathers Day. Get in touch and tell us about you...r signingwe want to hear from you! Or if you know a dad who uses KWS, show him your appreciation by giving him a shout out on our page! Send your videos, photos and stories through to [email protected], or message us directly. #keywordsign #keywordsignaustralia

18.01.2022 Happy International Youth Day! Today we celebrate all the magic young people bring to our lives. Wade has been making the most of his time in lockdown by refining his own super magic skills, which you can see with his amazing disappearing water trick!

16.01.2022 FATHERS DAY STORYTIME: Australian author, singer and songwriter Josh Pyke reads Lights Out Leonard. Grab a cuppa, settle the little ones and enjoy storytime!

15.01.2022 STORYTIME: Join award winning journalist Paul Kennedy (and a little helper) reading "I Love Dad with the Very Hungry Caterpillar". Grab a cuppa, settle the littlies and enjoy storytime!

14.01.2022 The range of Key Word Sign posters is an easy-to-read quick reference resource. Perfect for childcare centres, schools, or around the house to help nurture a ke...y word signing environment. Featuring line drawings of common signs grouped by theme, the range includes feelings, my family, mealtime, most frequent words, bath time, pets, playtime and much more! They are a fantastic resource for learning core and fringe words. Pick and choose your posters in sets of 5, or purchase the full set. Bulk discounts are available, and if youre a General Member, you get 5% off. Buy a set of 5: https://shop.scopeaust.org.au//key-word-sign-posters-set-/ Purchase the full set: https://shop.scopeaust.org.au//key-word-sign-posters-full/ Find more great resources and info at www.kwsa.com.au

14.01.2022 Check out Justine Clarke and Cheryl Lardy read Yu Sabi Densdensbad for Indigenous Literacy Day. Grab a cuppa, settle the little ones and enjoy storytime!

13.01.2022 Tell Dad how much you appreciate him this Fathers Day! You can print out this resource and fold it in half to make a card, and decorate the front with your ow...n unique, beautiful artwork. Practice the signs ahead of time, and read it out to him this Sunday! He will love it. The PDF download is available on our website www.kwsa.com.au #keywordsign #keywordsignaustralia

13.01.2022 We are super excited to announce Travis Cloke is one of our judges for the #facesofdyslexia2021 self-portrait competition. Travis Was a successful AFL footballe...r for Collingwood and the WesterBulldogs. Most recently he danced up a storm on Dancing with the Stars. Most importantly he is a proud dyslexic. Thanks Travis for joining us on our journey to empower young people and adults with dyslexia to reach their full potential. The Indigenous Literacy Foundation See more

13.01.2022 Masks make it harder for deaf people. Here are seven basic Auslan signs every Australian should know in a great little video. https://youtu.be/kTIRhS_avmA

13.01.2022 Down Syndrome Queensland has announced plans to roll out an inclusive sport program across the state, and local coaches want the Wide Bay to be involved. The pr...ogram will help clubs tailor games and training sessions to accommodate athletes with intellectual disabilities. www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS

12.01.2022 Not all communication is speech. Around 1.2 million Australians have communication disability. Though, communication disability is largely invisible. Unseen an...d out-of-sight. Thats why during Speech Pathology Week (23-29 August), we strive to raise awareness of communication disability and the important work speech pathologists do to ensure every Australian is communicating with confidence. This short video highlights some of the many and varied ways Australians communicate. www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/spw2020 #SPweek #SpeakUp4CommRights #WeSpeechies #SLPeeps #slp2B

12.01.2022 Without assisted living and the incredible dedication of support workers, none of this would be possible

11.01.2022 Plan Renewal, Rollover, or Extension ARGH!!!! What do they all mean? WORTH SAVING and SHARING: End of plan reviews 4 types and what you need to know when y...our plan is about to finish! Firstly, a plan rollover can mean *any* of the types on new plans Ive explained below in this post, so we are just not gonna use that word (rollover) anymore, and instead well use the more official NDIS terms for the different types. This post is about the options for when your plan dates are ending. This post does not cover when you ask for a review because you are unhappy with your fairly new plan (review of a reviewable decision) or when you are requesting a change of circumstances review. 1. Plan Auto-Extension A genuine plan extension is the default option and what happens when your plan is set to expire and no one at the NDIA or the LAC has done anything to get you a new plan. When you get a Plan Extension, it is usually automatic for one year (though it can sometimes be one month or anything in between). A plan extension does does give you a new plan, and in fact, the pdf plan you can download on the NDIS MyPlace portal doesnt change one little bit. But, youll notice in the other parts of your portal, that the end date has changed, and a pro-rata amount of funding has been added. Plan extensions usually happen when there hasnt been any other human intervention, or sometimes when a planner is working on your new plan but its not quite finished yet, so they add a month or two to your old plan to give them time to do their work. If you have a Plan Extension, the money left in your plan remains, and extra money is put in as pro rata. An example: If you have an old $12,000 plan which expires today, and you still have $2,000 left that you didnt use: if your plan is extended by a year, there should now be a new plan end date of 14th August 2021, and there should be around $14,000 in that plan (and the start date wont change from your old plan!). And yes, you can still claim for stuff dated anytime between August 14 2019 and August 14 2021. (before you ask, Im not you if the extra funds take into account the July price increases or not, sorry!) Often the Agency uses these Extension Plans as a stop-gap, until they get your new plan all sorted and approved. Under the NDIS Act (the law!) an NDIS plan never ends until it is replaced with a new one, or the participant exits the scheme, and thats why we have Plan Auto-Extensions to be rid of those awful plan gaps we used to see, which were always against the law. Grrr... 2. Plan Renewal A Plan Renewal is when you get a whole new plan (usually one or two years long) which is basically a repeat of your current, about to expire old plan. This generally needs you, the participant, to approve it. This can be a great option for people who are happy with their old plan, and dont want to be assed going through a full plan review. These Renewal Plans *are* a whole new plan, so *none* of the leftover funds from your old plan are available for supports and services dated during the new plan dates. The new plan usually starts when the old plan was set to end, but sometimes planners bring this forward a bit sooner, which can be frustrating if youve been saving your funds to get something at the end of your old plan. So if youre talking to an LAC or planner and are keen for a Renewal Plan, make sure to ask them to wait until youve been able to purchase that larger end of plan thing. And if youre not confident about them holding off, then jump in and get that service/support sorted as soon as you can! When this Renewal Plan starts, you will still be able to makes claims for things you bought during the dates of the old plan from the old plan (before the new plan start date) for up to 90 days on the portal (for self managers), and Plan Managers should be able to do the same. You should also get a whole new pdf plan to download in the NDIS MyPlace portal with a new start and new end date. 3. Light Touch Plan Renewal This one is pretty much the same as the full Renewal Plan (#2 above), except a planner or an LAC might have a chat with you, often on the phone or sometimes even via email, in what feels like a review-lite meeting. The planner or LAC will just check in if there are any relatively easy changes that need to be made. You might find that your plan funds increase due to this chat, but you might also find you lose some funding an example might be someone who has already had SLES funding for two years, so it is left off of the Light Touch Plan Renewal. One typical change for a Light Touch Plan Renewal, is the recent change to where ADE (Supported Employment) funds go in your Plan: they are now put in your more flexible Core funds bucket, and are no longer put in your Capacity Building buckets. Another more obvious example is that equipment that youve already received during the current plan isnt going to be repeated and funded again in the new Renewal Plan. 4. Full Plan Review This is the regular full plan review meeting on phone or in person where you go through *all* the stuff with an LAC, ECEI partner or planner, and they build you a whole new plan. For these reviews, youll generally want/need to provide therapist reports and other evidence of your support needs, your carer statement and all that stuff. Generally, young children will nearly always get a full plan review, and no Renewal Plan options, as little tackers needs are pretty changeable through early intervention. This also often applies where a participant has a plan the Agency thinks was well funded for a specific time-limited purpose (or therapy program, for example), and for folks in this boat, youre also unlikely to be offered a Renewal Plan. So, how do you get the type of review you want? Have a think about which of the above options will work for you. Once youve decided, and youre maybe two or so months out from the end of your current plan, call your local LAC, or call (1800 800 110) or email the NDIS on [email protected] and let them know what youd like. There are no guarantees that you will get your choice, of course, but theres probably no harm in giving it a crack. And dont forget, if your new Plan doesnt give you what you need, you can always ask for a Review of a Reviewable Decision (also known as a RORD or S100 Review) for all new Plan, except where there is an extension plan (in which case you could potentially ask for a Change of Circumstances review) Wishing you all the best! Sorry this is so messy, and long. This post is copyright of The Growing Space 2020, and were thrilled for you to share it, with credit and no edits, here on Facebook. if you want to share it anywhere else, we request that you ask us for permission. We really appreciate our work being shared, but were a bit fussy about it being reproduced in whole, so there arent any misunderstandings, which makes us cranky when it goes pear shaped. Thanks heaps. pic description: an image that puts the above information into a table

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08.01.2022 Did you know that about 80% of the words we say are made up of core words? These are words we use frequently across daily situations, so this is the place to ...start using key word sign. These are the signs that you will learn in a Basic KWS Workshop and are in our resource Getting Started with Key Word Sign. Youll find that, as with speech, we also need signs for fringe words a much broader range of words for things and descriptions, and for talking about particular topics, like swimming or footy teams. These are important because they allow you to chat about things that people are interested in. People are much more likely to use sign with you if theyre interested in the topic of conversation. What kind of sign vocabulary have you been learning lately? Let us know any tips you have in the comments! Find out more about Key Word Sign at www.kwsa.com.au #keywordsign #keywordsignaustralia

05.01.2022 Hello, is this thing on? If you havent tuned in yet, the Down Syndrome Victoria Podcast is now LIVE! Listen in for practical tips and techniques to help rein...force positive behaviour and address challenging behaviours you might be experiencing with your child. https://bit.ly/2PzOyeO

04.01.2022 STORYTIME: Join Australian actor John Wood reading Bluey: The Creek. Grab a cuppa, settle the little ones and enjoy storytime!

03.01.2022 The Yolu Sign Language book will be launched this Friday at Buku Larrgay Mulka at 10am- everybody is welcome. Author Dr Bentley James will be present, with b...ooks available here and online now at yirrkala.com Promoting one of the world's few remaining Indigenous sign languages, this book was made possible by the generous donations of many people- read the full story here: https://www.smh.com.au//one-of-the-last-indigenous-languag Video featuring artist Gutingarra Yunupiu.

02.01.2022 #NAIDOC week celebrates First Nations peoples 65,000 year culture and connection to this land. Always was, always will be. We acknowledge the First Peoples of ...this land and the many First Nations sign languages; the oldest in the world. Happy NAIDOC week to all! @naidocweek @scopeaust Find out more about Key Word Sign: www.kwsa.com.au #alwayswasalwayswillbe #naidocweek #naidoc2020 #naidocweek2020 #aboriginal #torresstraitislander #community #australia #australians