Functional Capacity Assessment
Functional Capacity Assessment and Report
Mel is specialised in conducting comprehensive occupational therapy functional capacity assessments for adults and children over four. The assessment is in a few parts which includes telehealth and face to face assessment. The process also includes comprehensive standardised assessments all combined in an easy-to-read thorough report.
Occupational Therapy for PANS/ PANDAS
Here are some ways OTs can help with managing this difficult condition:
Environmental modification
Using an OT lens to consider how the child's environment may be impacting on the symptoms of the condition and ways in which it can be modified to best support the child at their stage.
Task analysis and modification
Assessing the child at their age and stage to determine how required tasks can be modified to best suit them and how temporary modifications and adaptations in everyday life can be implemented.
Education
Providing education to parents, families and other care givers on how this condition affects the child's occupational performance, behaviour and mood.
Providing support
Support to parents, care givers and educational staff in ways the child can be supported through flare ups of the condition and in periods of recovery.
Assessment
Assessment of the child's strengths, areas of development, sensory needs, social skills and emotional regulation to ensure skill development is addressed once the flare up of the condition has remitted.
Occupational Therapy Medico-legal Assessment
What's involved?
Our senior occupational therapist has experience working as an expert witness to help solicitors gather the required information relating to medio-legal cases such as personal injury, medical negligence and insurance disputes. Maple Allied Health offers quick turnaround times for assessment and reports in and around the Melbourne Southeastern suburbs and Bayside area. Please contact us for a quote based on your requirements.
About Maple Allied Health
Melissa Andreotti Senior Occupational Therapist
Mel is an occupational therapist with 15 years' experience. Graduating from Monash University in 2009, she has since worked in many roles in public health across acute, subacute and community-based settings. She has also worked as a rehabilitation assessor for a large public health service where she was involves in complex assessment of individuals requiring multidisciplinary input.
Mel has extensive experience working with those with various physical and cognitive disabilities and impairments, psychosocial conditions, home assessment and modification and rehabilitation.
More recently, Mel has worked in the Medico-legal space providing comprehensive assessment and reports based on law firm requests which include cases not limited to; personal injury, medical negligence, TPD and NDIA tribunal.
Mel has a special interest in Functional Capacity Assessments (FCA) for adults and children over 4 years and enjoys the challenges of drawing information from various sources and putting it together in one easy to understand report.
Mel is known for her gentle and generous nature and is passionate about helping others.
In her spare time, Mel enjoys spending time with her family including her partner and two young kids, walking her dog along the beach and bike riding.
Please get in touch if you would like to find out if Mel can assist you.
Service Area
We service the following locations and surrounds
Kingston, Bayside, Glen Eira, Greater Dandenong, Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas of Melbourne, Victoria.
Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, Bentleigh, Bonbeach, Carrum, Carrum Downs, Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Cheltenham, Dingley Village, Edithvale, Frankston, Keysborough, Langwarrin, Mentone, Mordialloc, Moorabbin, Parkdale, Patterson Lakes, Seaford.
Please note; Maple Allied Health is a mobile therapy service whereby the therapist comes to you. Travel cannot exceed 30mins from Edithvale one way unless for once off assessments where negotiated such as in Medico-Legal cases.