#1393 Monday 7 November

Wow!!  The ABC news reports that a group in South Australia has developed an approved method of using SCUBA equipment to provide "immersion therapy"  The group is receiving a National Disability Award today.

"Scuba gear is used, but immersion therapy is about more than just diving in a pool.
It is accessed through medical referrals and has been used to improve the lives of those who live with paralysis, cerebral palsy, and autism.
"Things like pain reduction, general wellbeing, mental health, and across the board everything's just getting outstanding results," Mr Wilson said.
The Adelaide-based facility is helping people with a disability go underwater to discover a freedom of movement that would otherwise be impossible.
For that reason it is one of 23 finalists nominated in eight categories for the 10th anniversary of the National Disability awards, which will be presented at ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra tonight.
There is only one criteria: finalists must do something to improve the lives of Australians with a disability, their families and carers."

Click on this link below to go to their website.

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 So .... I made contact with the group straight away ..... and it will be great to see where it goes.
I'm told that the therapy has been developed with complete medical approval and  it can be funded by NDIS.   It all sounds very impressive. ..... and it sounds like something that Kaylia would be 'over the moon' with!

The group is hoping to get the therapy available in WA next year ...... but it sounds as if there may be funding to make it possible for Kaylia to go to Adelaide to experience it sooner than that.

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On the home front, Kaylia was being her most adorable self this morning ...... this is what happens when we do up her shoe laces!













I had to put on my plumbers hat today .... we had a pipe leaking inside the wall in the kitchen ..... so I had to demolish a part of the wall to replace the leaking pipe.  ..... but I saved a lot of money!

Some of you will recognize the place in the photo ... taken from the laundry doorway,  you are looking at the wall which is part of the linen cupboard at the rear of the kitchen sink .... I had to remove quite a bit to gain access to the pipes.