Therapy Assistants & Capability Coaches

Make your therapy dollars go further with a Capability Coach!

At Family Agility we do everything we can to ensure our patients receive the best possible care, service and value. By using a carefully trained Therapy Assistant as a Capability Coach you can stretch your child's therapy budget much further and make progress towards multiple therapy goals!

What is Capability Coaching / Therapy Assistance?

A Capability Coach (Therapy Assistant) can enable your child to make incremental yet meaningful progress towards their therapy goals in a cost effective way.
Evidence-based practice tells us that the best therapeutic outcomes occur when a child is able to translate their therapy into everyday routines. Most children need regular support to achieve these outcomes, which is where a Capability Coach / Therapy Assistant comes in!
A Capability Coach (Therapy Assistant) is a cost-effective way to help your child to learn skills and then put them in action in their daily life.
Parents often tell us that their child is able to demonstrate a technique / skill in a clinic or when they're with a therapist, but when they get home, their child can’t repeat it! We can help. 😊
A Capability Coach can assist to implement your child's Treatment Plan (created by a qualified Therapist), or transfer skills, through a mentoring process, and by integrating these skills into their daily routines.
A Capability Coach can help your child practice skills / techniques in real world situations (ie: at their daycare centre or school), by supporting you in real world situations to practice skills - your family doesn't have to do it alone.

How Can I Make My Child's Therapy Funding Go Further?

If clinically appropriate, a Capability Coach can be trained by your normal Therapist(s) to implement your child's Treatment Plan(s) in a far more cost effective manner. For example, the current NDIS rate per hour for an Occupational Therapist is $193.99 and the current NDIS rate per hour for a Therapy Assistant (level 2) is $86.79.
Your Capability Coach can mentor you and your child to achieve multi-disciplinary goals in any single session. For example, your child / your family may have goals set by your Occupational Therapist and also your Physiotherapist. Your Capability Coach can integrate these 'multi-disciplinary' goals into each session (if clinically appropriate) - offering even more value for money.

How Does Capability Coaching Work?

In order to transfer skills learned in therapy to real world situations, your Capability Coach will spend a minimum of two hours per session with you in real-world situations to assist you to make real progress towards your goals.
For example, your Capability Coach may go to the daycare centre with your child, to practice skills learned with your:
- Occupational Therapist (ie: learning to hold a pencil properly and colour in, use leggo blocks, etc),
- Physiotherapist (ie: practicing catching and throwing when your child gets home).
Real and meaningful change takes time, and by using a Capability Coach (Therapy Assistant), this is much more affordable.

What Qualifications Do Body Agility Therapy Assistants / Capability Coaches Have?

All Family Agility Therapy Assistants / Capability Coaches are current (or graduate) allied health students, either completed or currently studying physiotherapy, occupational therapy or psychology and operate under the guidance of a qualified therapist.

Early Childhood Partners, Parents, NDIS Participants & Support Coordinators

We are registered for Early Childhood Early Interventions (ie: children under 9 years old)!
If your child is part of the ECEI program or has NDIS funding, we can provide mobile services (home / school / daycare facility, etc) right across the broader Perth region, or you can come to one of our locations.
We have no wait times at all due to our unique operating model.
Please complete and submit our NDIS Participant Referral form (use the button below), contact us on (08) 6373 5063 to discuss how we can support your child to achieve their NDIS Goals and your Family Goals.