“We rise by lifting others”
— Robert Ingersoll
“We rise by lifting others”
— Robert Ingersoll
Why choose LifeLift
Our allied health team includes occupational therapists, physiologists, rehabilitation counsellors and more. We offer health and rehabilitation supports, early interventions and services that build skills and independence, and undertake comprehensive assessments. LifeLift works with you to develop rehabilitation programs that are realistic and achievable and in keeping with your identified goals.
Physical Disability
What is a physical disability?
Physical disabilities may affect, either temporarily or permanently, a person’s physical capacity and/or mobility. There are many different causes of physical disabilities, but they can include inherited or genetic disorders, serious illnesses, and injury.
Types of physical disabilities
Different types of physical disabilities may affect, either temporarily or permanently, a person’s physical capacity and/or mobility. Physical disability often includes impairments of the neuromusculoskeletal systems. Some examples of these disabilities are the effects of paraplegia, quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, motor neurone disease, neuromuscular disorders, cerebral palsy, absence or deformities of limbs, spina bifida, arthritis, back disorders, ataxia, bone formation or degeneration, scoliosis. Includes impairments of the neuromusculoskeletal systems, including, for example, the effects of paraplegia, quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, motor neurone disease, neuromuscular disorders, cerebral palsy, absence or deformities of limbs, spina bifida, arthritis, back disorders, ataxia, bone formation or degeneration, scoliosis.
- Acquired brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Spina bifida
- Cerebral palsy
- Cystic fibrosis
- Epilepsy
- Multiple sclerosis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Tourette syndrome
- Dwarfism
Mental Health
What is a mental illness?
Mental illness is a general term that refers to a group of illnesses that significantly affects how a person feels, thinks, behaves, and interacts with other people.
Mental illnesses can be very difficult and debilitating to those experiencing them, as well as their families and friends. They can also be permanent, temporary, or come and go.
Types of mental illness
Different types of mental illness affect a person’s thinking, emotional state, and behaviours.
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Anxiety disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Anorexia nervosa
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
Cognitive Support
An intellectual disability is characterised by someone having an IQ below 70 (the median IQ is 100), as well as significant difficulty with daily living such as self-care, safety, communication, and socialisation.
People with an intellectual disability may process information more slowly, find communication and daily living skills hard, and also have difficulty with abstract concepts such as money and time.
About 3% of Australians have an intellectual disability, making it the most common primary disability (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare).
An intellectual disability may be caused by a genetic condition, problems during pregnancy and birth, health problems or illness, and environmental factors.
Types of intellectual disabilities:
An intellectual disability may mean difficulty communicating, learning, and retaining information
- Fragile X syndrome
- Down syndrome
- Developmental delay
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Foetal Alcohol spectrum disorder
Autism Support
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability that occurs in the brain. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder experience problems with social interaction, communication and self-expression. They often have restricted or repetitive behaviours and interactions with their environment. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder have particular ways of learning, moving, or paying attention that makes it challenging to experience interactions with others and therefore have an impact on their day-to-day life.
Signs of autism n children:
- Finding it hard to keep eye contact
- An infant who does not respond to name by 9 months.
- Children who do not show facial expressions like happy, sad, angry, and surprised by 9 months of age
- Infants that do not play simple interactive games by 12 months of age
- Infants that uses few or no gestures for example, waving
- 15 months of age infants who do not share interests with others
- infants who do not point to show something interesting in the first two years
- Toddlers who do not notice when others are hurt or upset
- Toddlers who do not notice other children and join them in play
- Children who do not pretend to be something else in games
- Children who do not sing, dance, or act for you by 60 months of age
- infants who do not point to show something interesting in the first two years