Northcott CATS
Posted by lyndall on February 29, 2008
Northcott Disability Services provides support to many families across NSW and the ACT. They provide services for a range of disabilities including; physical, intellectual, sensory, acquired and degenerative disabilities as well as challenging behaviours.
Northcott Computer Assistive Technology Services (CATS) provides people with disabilities information, support and guidance regarding Assistive Technology. A number of Training and workshops are conducted throughout the year to allow carers / parents or professionals to gain confidence and knowledge about Assistive Technology.
Please feel free to visit their website. (You can also visit the Northcott homepage through this link) This is a great initiative!
http://www.northcottcats.com.au/about_cats/index.html
March 5th, 2008 at 3:24 am
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March 5th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
This is such a brilliant website and having an older sister who is a practicing occupational therapist (OT) it is interesting to see what those in this profession offer to students who have learning difficulties and/or various levels of intellectual and physical disabilities. I think its awesome that this organisation offer individual advisory sessions for students in order to pin point their exact needs, so as to specifically work towards supporting the learning of these students. I was also thrilled to read that the organisation offers the assistive technology equipment on loan to families both in rural and urban areas in order to test out the effectiveness and suitablity of the equipment before it is purchased.