Allied health in schools
Allied health services sit outside of traditional medical, dental or nursing services and the service providers often work in multidisciplinary teams to provide specialist support. The allied health services included within this scheme are:
- Occupational therapy
- Speech pathology
- Physiotherapy
- Exercise physiology
- Behaviour support.
There are a range of services that can be delivered under the umbrella of specialist allied health services as part of this Scheme, including:
- Conducting therapeutic, behaviour, risk, assistive technology, or environmental assessments
- Developing and implementing support plans, in collaboration with school staff, parents and carers, and other service providers working with students
- Delivering structured support programs to students
- Training school staff to support learning, safety and wellbeing at school.
For more details on these services, please review these fact sheets.
- Occupational Therapy - (Printable OT fact sheet PDF 555Kb)
- Physiotherapy - (Printable Physiotherapy fact sheet PDF 439Kb)
- Speech Pathology - (Printable Speech Pathology fact sheet PDF 919Kb)
- Exercise Physiology - (Printable Exercise Physiology fact sheet PDF 342Kb)
- Specialist Behaviour Supports - (Printable Specialist Behaviour Supports fact sheet PDF 530Kb)
Regional areas as specified within the scheme.
The regions as defined by this scheme are:
Capital Region - Queanbeyan, Snowy Mountains, South Coast, Goulburn-Mulwaree, Young-Yass
Central Coast - Gosford and Wyong
Central West - Bathurst, Lachlan Valley, Lithgow-Mudgee and Orange
Coffs Harbour – Grafton - Clarence Valley and Coffs Harbour
Far West and Orana - Bourke-Cobar-Coonamble, Broken Hill and Far West and Dubbo
Hunter Valley excl. Newcastle - Lower Hunter, Maitland, Port Stephens and Upper Hunter
Illawarra - Dapto-Port Kembla, Kiama-Shellharbour and Wollongong
Mid-North Coast - Great Lakes, Kempsey-Nambucca, Port Macquarie and Taree-Gloucester
Murray - Albury, Lower Murray and Upper Murray
New England and North West - Armidale, Inverell-Tenterfield, Moree-Narrabri and Tamworth-Gunnedah
Newcastle and Lake Macquarie
Richmond – Tweed - Richmond Valley and Tweed Valley
Riverina - Griffith-Murrumbidgee, Tumut-Tumbarumba and Wagga Wagga
Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven
Sydney - Baulkham Hills and Hawkesbury, Blacktown, City and Inner South, Eastern Suburbs, Inner South West, Inner West, North Sydney and Hornsby, Northern Beaches, Outer South West, Outer West and Blue Mountains, Parramatta, Ryde, South West and Sutherland