Check below to see if your health fund can be claimed on site.
All our Speech Pathologists are registered with Private Health Providers.
Every health fund rebates a different amount and often have different rebate amounts for the initial and subsequent therapy sessions. Please contact your health fund directly to see if you are covered for Speech Therapy and what your rebate will be.
- Autism
- Aspergers
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder; or
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)
The funding allows for $12,000 per child (up to $6,000 in a financial year) to be used toward the cost of accessing eligible therapy services until children are 7 years of age. Up to 35% of funding (up to $2100 in a financial year) can be used for resources.
Resources that are purchased must:
- be recommended by the child’s Speech Pathologist, and
- be directly linked with the early intervention services being delivered to the child, and/or
- provide support for the delivery of interventions at home.
An additional $2,000 is available for remote and regional families
Autism Advisors can assist families to determine eligibility and access funding. Please contact your local autism advisor. In Queensland contact advisors at Autism Queensland ph 1800 428 847.
Children with Autism or Autism like symptoms may also have access to PlayConnect Playgroups.
Families and carers may also attend “Early Days” Family Workshops.
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- moderate sight impairment
- moderate hearing impairment
- deafblindness
- cerebral palsy
- Down syndrome
- Fragile X syndrome
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Williams syndrome
- Angelman syndrome
- Kabuki syndrome
- Smith-Magenis syndrome
- CHARGE syndrome
- Cri du Chat syndrome
- Cornelia de Lange syndrome
- microcephaly
The funding allows for $12,000 per child (up to $6,000 in a financial year) to be used toward the cost of accessing eligible therapy services until children are 7 years of age. Up to 35% of funding (up to $2100 in a financial year) can be used for resources.
An additional $2,000 is available for remote and regional families
Resources that are purchased must:
- be recommended by the child’s Speech Pathologist, and
- be directly linked with the early intervention services being delivered to the child, and/or
- provide support for the delivery of interventions at home.
To register a child for the Better Start early intervention funding parents and carers must call the RIS on 1800 242 636.
If your child is between the ages of 0-6 you will need to phone 1300 003 234 as NDIS for this age group is managed by the Benevolent Society.
Click here to find out more information on ECEI program.
Please give us as much notice as possible if you will need a report or a letter when applying. We have found so far that most people who just completed the form provided were rejected but with additional information this decision was reversed.
If you have been approved for NDIS and provided with a plan we don’t need to see the plan or know how much money you have been provided with but we will need to know the goals you are working towards.
Confused and not sure who to pick as a planner. We have found these plan managers know what they are doing, plus provide fast payments.
Emily’s Hope 0421 857 703 email maree@emilyshope.com.au or admin@emilyshope.com.au. Their website is under construction but don’t let that put you off I think it took us 10 years to get a website. Our families with Emily’s hope have really been incredibly happy with their service.
Made to Measure ph (07) 3889 1717 email admin@m2mserv.com.au
The Carer’s Allowance provides carer’s with a fortnightly payment to support the costs of caring for a child with developmental delays or disabilities. An application must be signed by a GP, Paediatrician, Psychologist or Speech Pathologist who is familiar with the child. This allowance is not assets or means tested.
Foster Children
If your child is a foster child then the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services may pay or refund the costs of therapy if they have identified the child as being eligible.
Insurance
We have worked with many different insurance providers to provide therapy for children who have been involved in motor vehicle accidents.
Charities
Occasionally a charity may fund a child to attend regular therapy sessions or an initial assessment.