For some children, communication and language skills don’t come easily. Kai is one of those kids. Kai is eight years old and lives with his mum, Jessica. Kai likes big hugs, is a protective big cousin to “baby Jack”, and he loves making people smile and laugh. Kai has a severe expressive and receptive language…
What is your role at RFW? Hi, I’m Wade and I’m the Telecare Coordinator Team Leader at Royal Far West. In its simplest form, our ‘Telecare for Kids’ program provides speech, occupational therapy and psychology therapy services for children, schools and families who live in rural and remote Australia via video link (similar to Skype/FaceTime)….
Hi everyone. It’s great that I get to do my profile this week as it coincides with Speech Pathology Week, 25-31 August, and this year’s theme is “Communicating with Confidence!” Speech Pathology Week seeks to promote the speech pathology profession and the work done by speech pathologists with the more than 1.2 million Australians who have…
What is your role at Royal Far West (RFW)? Hi, my name is Linsey and I am a Senior Telecare Coordinator here at RFW. In the simplest way, Telecare provides therapy services for children, schools and families who live in rural and remote Australia via video link, providing them opportunities which they otherwise would not…
Our own Professor Alexandra Martiniuk, University of Sydney, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Translating Research into Practice Fellow, recently made the case for increased telehealth adoption and wrote about this in the Medical Journal of Australia InSight publication. MJA InSight is Australia’s highest circulating medical e-newsletter and is trusted by the medical community…
