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Let’s Eat

Discover your inner chef and become more confident in the kitchen.

Dates and Locations

Hawker College - Canberra
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Time
Suitable For
30/09/2024 - 03/10/2024 - 12-17 years
Allambie Heights centre
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Time
Suitable For
30/09/2024 - 11/10/202410:00 am - 1:00 pm12-17 years

Let’s Eat is an occupational therapy cooking program held during the school holidays. The face-to-face group program is designed to teach participants how to safely and independently make simple and tasty meals.

Our occupational therapists will demonstrate how participants can cook using their current abilities, introduce new skills on task modification and use helpful assistive and adaptive equipment in the kitchen. 

Cooking doesn’t just involve putting all the ingredients together. It also involves planning grocery list, budgeting, purchasing ingredients and cleaning up. 

Register your interest today!

Contact us directly or complete the form below to enquire.

What does it involve?
  • Grocery shopping 
  • Planning and preparing meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
  • Learning and practicing how to clean up after cooking 
What are the outcomes?
Who is the program for?
  • Kids and teens aged 12-17 years
  • Who has an interest in cooking 
  • Who can use two hands together or have the necessary support available to assist (e.g working towards using a knife and fork with support)
  • Who can listen and follow 2-step instructions 

Register your interest today!

Contact us directly or complete the form below to enquire.

This service is available at

Cerebral Palsy Alliance Allambie Heights centre

Allambie Heights centre

187 Allambie Rd, Allambie Heights NSW 2100
ask@cerebralpalsy.org.au
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Cerebral Palsy Alliance Canberra centre

Canberra centre

5 Ross Smith Cres, Scullin ACT 2614
ask@cerebralpalsy.org.au
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Cerebral Palsy Alliance Ryde centre

Ryde centre

3A Smalls Rd, Ryde NSW 2112
ask@cerebralpalsy.org.au
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This service can be funded by your NDIS package

  • Capacity Building - Improved Social and Community Participation (Category 9)
  • Capacity Building - Improved Daily Living (Category 15)

Enquiry form

We will respond as soon as possible, between Monday-Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm

Frequently asked questions

Infants 12 months or younger are eligible if they have the following:

  • Clinical history indicating risk for cerebral palsy


Risk factors include (but not limited to) prematurity, birth defects, genetic conditions, intrauterine growth restriction, hypoxia-ischaemia, seizures, neonatal stroke, infection

  • Abnormal neuroimaging-MRI or Cranial Ultrasound (CUS) indicative of possible motor impairment
  • Motor dysfunction

 

This might include abnormal General Movements, very low scores on standardised assessment (e.g. below 10th percentile on AIMS), poor head control after 3 months, hand asymmetry after 4 months, not able to take weight through feet after 5 months, not sitting at 9 months.

Priority will be given to infants who have not previously seen a neurologist.

Frequently asked questions

Infants 12 months or younger are eligible if they have the following:

  • Clinical history indicating risk for cerebral palsy


Risk factors include (but not limited to) prematurity, birth defects, genetic conditions, intrauterine growth restriction, hypoxia-ischaemia, seizures, neonatal stroke, infection

  • Abnormal neuroimaging-MRI or Cranial Ultrasound (CUS) indicative of possible motor impairment
  • Motor dysfunction

 

This might include abnormal General Movements, very low scores on standardised assessment (e.g. below 10th percentile on AIMS), poor head control after 3 months, hand asymmetry after 4 months, not able to take weight through feet after 5 months, not sitting at 9 months.

Priority will be given to infants who have not previously seen a neurologist.