Dannielle is an Occupational Therapist with a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy from Southern Cross University on the Gold Coast. Her main focus is to help people by breaking down the barriers that the world and life can put on a person influencing their choices, activities of daily living function and involvement in their community. She believes that maintaining a holistic client-centred collaborative approach is important to provide the best individualised practice to each client to reach their full potential to maximise a person’s independence and enhance their overall quality of life on a daily basis.

An influential part of this involves utilising effective communication skills between contacting clients, their families, their case managers or coordinators and other health practitioners associated with their care in a timely and efficient manner to ensure client goals are being achieved.

Dannielle has worked collaboratively from a client-focused family orientated approach with a variety of conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), mild to moderate intellectual disabilities and developmental delays. This included the implementation of individualised learning plans to evaluate improvement in alertness, attention, problem-solving, social skills, self-regulation, identification of moods/emotions and behaviours to improve self-regulation of emotions/feelings.

She has proficiency in completing clear succinct reports to assist with effective transparent communication in regards to equipment prescriptions, assistive technology prescriptions and Functional Capacity Assessment and Progress Reports for NDIS Reviews.