Interprofessional Student Placements 2012.pdf - Health Sciences ...

EARLY INTERVENTION IPPPrimary Schools ProgramLOCATIONSBoyare Primary School, MirrabookaNerrigen Primary School, ArmadaleSacred Heart Primary School, ThornlieDryandra Primary School, ArmadaleSecret Harbour Primary School,Secret HarbourCONTACT/SKeryn BolteIPE fieldwork coordinatorCurtin UniversityTel: (08) 9266 9132Mbl: 0488 117 909Email: keryn.bolte@curtin.edu.auRobynne SnellProject managerCHIRI, Curtin UniversityTel: (08) 9266 9124Email: r.snell@curtin.edu.auSITE SUMMARYThe early intervention program will offeroccupational therapy, speech therapy,physiotherapy and nursing students theopportunity to work closely with youngchildren who are identified as potentiallybeing at ‘educational risk’.Curtin students will focus on the childrenin kindergarten to year two classes in fiveprimary schools – Boyare and DryandraPrimary Schools (in Mirrabooka),Neerigen Brook Primary School (InArmadale), Sacred Heart Primary(Thornlie) and Secret Harbour PrimarySchool. The aims of the program are:• Allied health students work, learnand practise together demonstratinginterprofessional practice skills.• School children, identified as beingpotentially ‘at educational risk’, willbeing included in individual and groupprograms in order to enhance the child’scapacity to undertake their occupationalrole of being a student, self-maintainerand friend.• Teachers and other school staff willcollaborate with the allied healthstudents learning concepts and skillsthat will be sustainable after thestudents leave the school.