By Seb Della Maddalena, Manager, Therapy and Support Services “When I first started working in vision impairment, I thought it was a narrow field (no pun intended). After a few months that perception quickly changed. Lighting is a good example to demonstrate how varied vision impairment strategies can be. Some people with vision impairment benefit…
Therapy and Support Services Manager, Seb Della Maddalena ponders how non-text cues are a part of everyday life. “Across generations, people have referred to the three Rs; Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. And yes, these are important. Emphasis is placed on developing reading skills, and rightly so, but we also shouldn’t forget the importance of pictures…
Why we should use video-conferencing more often in therapy By Seb Della Maddalena, Manager, Therapy and Support Services “Technologies such as video-conferencing have opened up a world of opportunity for people with disability. VisAbility Manager of Therapy and Support Services Seb Della Maddalena explores the hidden, yet most significant, benefit of video-conferencing in the delivery…
Ryan Honschooten, VisAbility’s Youth Support Officer in our Therapy and Support Services explores opportunities available for young people living with disability entering the workforce. In this series of three articles, Thinking of Your Child’s Career, Ryan shares his thoughts with parents and their children on how to go about finding meaningful work. “Career planning and development is…
Written by Seb Della Maddalena, Manager, Therapy and Support Services. “If you didn’t know that too much chocolate wasn’t good for you, how much and what type of chocolate would you eat? White chocolate? Dark chocolate? Any chocolate? You could say some people make an ‘informed choice’ to transition to dark chocolate, in an effort to…
What does the Social work team at VisAbility do? Social Worker from Therapy and Support Services, Glenn Luff explains. The Social Work Team has experience journeying with people living with recent and longer term visual changes. Social Work at VisAbility is a holistic service that seeks to support people of all ages experiencing vision loss,…
VisAbility’s Manager of Therapy and Support Services, Seb Della Maddalena, explores the way different assistive technologies are determined as reasonable and necessary under the NDIS. You may not have realised it, but the NDIS has changed the way that we think and speak. Five years ago, had you heard of the National Disability Insurance Scheme…
By Seb Della Maddalena, Manager, Therapy and Support Services. Is the NDIS living up to what it was designed to be? There are currently thousands of Western Australians already in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and by 30 June 2019, every eligible Western Australian will be able to participate in the scheme. What comes to…