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Services tailored to you, whatever your journey looks like.

At Royal Rehab LifeWorks, we’re passionate about empowering people with disability to live more independently and pursue the goals that matter most to them.

We offer a range of allied health services designed to build skills and support greater independence. Our warm and friendly team works closely with each individual to deliver personalised support that aligns with their unique needs, strengths, and aspirations, helping them reach their potential and live a connected, fulfilling life.

We support individuals with a diverse range of needs and experiences, including those living with

  • Intellectual disability
  • Physical disability

We offer

Occupational therapy
By focusing on practical skills and adaptive strategies, our occupational therapists work alongside you to build confidence and support you in navigating daily life with greater ease and independence.
  • Enhancing independence: Learn new techniques to perform everyday activities such as dressing, cooking, and bathing with greater ease.
  • Improving arm and hand function: Strengthening and coordination exercises help restore movement and dexterity in affected limbs.
  • Enhancing vision and perception: Techniques and adaptive strategies can help manage visual impairments and spatial awareness challenges.
  • Adapting to your environments: Therapists provide recommendations for home modifications, such as grab bars or adaptive equipment, to improve safety and accessibility.
  • Conserving energy and managing fatigue: Learn strategies to pace activities, conserve energy, and prevent overexertion.
  • Returning to work and community activities: Tailored strategies help individuals regain skills needed for work, hobbies, and social engagement.
Speech pathology
Our speech therapists work with people living with or recovering from neurological conditions or living with disability to enhance communication, improve swallowing, and support a better quality of life.
  • Improving communication skills: Help express thoughts more clearly, understand spoken language, and engage in meaningful conversations. This may involve exercises to improve word retrieval, sentence structure, pronunciation, and overall clarity.
  • Managing aphasia: Aphasia affects the ability to speak, read, write, or understand language. Speech therapy provides structured exercises to strengthen these skills, helping individuals communicate more effectively.
  • Dysphagia treatment (swallowing support): Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) is common after a stroke and can lead to choking or aspiration pneumonia. Speech therapists assess swallowing function and provide targeted exercises to strengthen throat and mouth muscles, making eating and drinking safer and more comfortable.
  • Learning alternative communication strategies: If verbal speech remains difficult, therapists introduce alternative methods such as picture boards, gestures, or assistive communication devices to help individuals express themselves in new ways.
  • Cognitive rehabilitation: Communication is closely linked to cognitive functions such as memory, attention, and problem-solving. Speech therapy can incorporate cognitive exercises to help individuals improve thinking and language skills, supporting everyday interactions.
  • Enhancing emotional wellbeing and confidence: Losing the ability to communicate can be frustrating and isolating. Speech therapy not only restores language skills but also helps rebuild confidence, reducing feelings of frustration and improving social engagement.
Functional capacity assessments
A Functional Capacity Assessment is a detailed evaluation by an occupational therapist to understand a person’s ability to manage daily activities, guiding goal-setting, care planning, and NDIS funding applications.
  • Initial consultation and interview: A detailed discussion to gather information about your health history, current challenges, daily routines, and personal goals.
  • Observation of functional tasks: The therapist may observe you performing key activities such as mobility, personal care, domestic tasks, or community access to assess physical, cognitive, and psychosocial function.
  • Comprehensive domain assessment: Assessment may include areas such as communication, mobility, self-care, social interaction, learning, and participation in work or leisure, with standardised measures used where relevant.
  • Collaboration with your care network: Input from family, carers, or other treating professionals may be sought to ensure a well-rounded understanding of your needs and context.
  • Detailed reporting and recommendations: A formal report will outline functional strengths and limitations, along with clear, evidence-based recommendations for supports, interventions, assistive technology, or environmental changes to enhance independence and goal attainment.
Driving assessments
Whether you’re learning to drive for the first time, returning to driving, or looking to continue driving safely for as long as possible, our goal is to support you while keeping you and others safe on the road.
  • Personalised programs: We create graded driving programs tailored to your individual needs, age, and abilities – whether you’re just starting out or getting back behind the wheel after an injury or illness.
  • Driver education: Build your knowledge with expert driver education to boost your skills and confidence on the road.
  • Vehicle modification advice: We provide guidance on vehicle modifications that can support your driving, making sure everything is suited to your specific needs.
  • Try before you drive: You’ll have the chance to trial a range of vehicle modifications, such as hand controls, left-foot accelerators, spinner knobs, and satellite accelerators.
  • Modified vehicle access and TMR support: We can support you through the Transport and Main Roads (TMR) disability driving test process.
  • Licensing assistance: We’ll help you navigate the licensing process, including the steps needed to get or update your licence.
  • Insurance and funding support: We offer advocacy and support when working with insurance schemes, compensable third-party payers, or other funding bodies.
Home modifications
Our home modifications service is designed to make your home safer, more accessible, and better suited to your specific needs.
  • Expert guidance and home assessment: Your Occupational Therapist will conduct a thorough review of your home to identify areas that may benefit from modification. They will then arrange a joint visit with a qualified builder. Together, they will collaborate with you to explore feasible modifications and ensure proposed changes align with your personal needs and goals.
  • Support with funding and installation: We will provide recommendations for the required home modifications, including preparing drawings and detailed reports to support applications to relevant funding bodies.
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Meet the team

We celebrate progress in all its forms. It’s those small steps forward that often have the biggest impact.

Michael
Senior Exercise Physiologist and Dietician
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Our locations

New South Wales

Ryde Petersham Collaroy Penrith Ryde-Eastwood Dubbo

Queensland

Cairns Townsville Brisbane Atherton

Victoria

Melbourne
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