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Music Museum Outreach: Latest News Aerospace Hub coming...
Click on link to read the latest about 
Exploring Creativity and Discovering Musical Livelihoods - Workshops for people interested in Music and Health. To subscribe and join the national Music Health email group, register online.
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2012 Occupational Therapy commences January 23.
Book appointments for Parent Interviews/ Review of Teacher Questionnaires
Sensory Profile Assessments, Neurodevelopmental Observations and Testing
Handwriting, Gross and Fine Motor Evaluation
Assessment of Visual Perception, Listening, Auditory Processing and Music Programs.
2012 Appointment Calendar: Ipswich (Mon/Tues), Scenic Rim (Wed), Lockyer (Thurs), Somerset (Fri).
Free Habits for Healthy Kids book is available online. |
Occupational Therapy, Child Health & Music Services
Ipswich City, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim, & Somerset Regions
Music Health Australia is an Occupational Therapy and Music service which is based in Ipswich and covers the Ipswich City region and surrounding areas of Boonah, Beaudesert, Gatton, and Esk.
The Occupational Therapist specialising in Music and Listening caters mostly for children's neurodevelopmental programs. Children can be referred for assessment through parents/guardians, schools, local doctors, psychiatrists and paediatricians, or music and health professionals.
Medicare Primary Health Care Programs:
The Helping Children with Autism, Better Start for Children with a Disability, Better Outcomes in Mental Health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healthcare, Chronic Health and Complex Care Services programs are provided in home, school and/or community centres.
85% rebate of costs is available through Medicare. Medicare referral forms are to be completed by GP/Specialists.
Private Health Insurance funds, shown in this link cover Occupational Therapy. No Doctor's referral is necessary for private health funded schemes.
Sandra Kirkwood, is a registered Health Professional who has qualifications in Occupational Therapy and Music (Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, Bachelor of Music, Master of Philosophy - from Queensland Conservatorium). Sandra lives in Ipswich and is a committee member of the Musicological Society of Australia-Qld, and a member of OT Australia. Read more... About us, or Contact us
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LATEST BREAKING NEWS ABOUT WHALE SONG RESEARCH
Scientific American Launches Project to Identify Whale Calls 
Citizen scientists can now help study whale communications and pass along their observations through the Whale Song Project (aka Whale FM), a whale-song identification project that Scientific American launched Tuesday in partnership with the Citizen Science Alliance (CSA). Read more... |
 Finding Your Wings
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' health project. Concludes December, 2011. |
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Conferences and events
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International Primary Health Care Reform Conference
Brisbane
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6-7 MARCH, 2012 |
Health Professionals Teaching and Learning Conference: ‘True Colours – Performance and Professionalism in Health Education’
Alice Springs
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30-31 MARCH, 2012 |
 The National Allied Health Conference
Canberra
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1-3 APRIL, 2012 |
Encounters India: Meetings in Australian music
The Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University announces the next "meeting in Australian music". Encounters: India will chart connections between the cultures of the West, principally Australia, and the culture and philosophy of sub-continent India.
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7-12 MAY, 2012 |
The Drumley Walk,
Beaudesert to Gold Coast
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3-7 MAY, 2012 |
The Lowitja Institute 2012 National Conference on CQI in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care: 'CQI for everyday and everybody'
Alice Springs
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14-15 MAY, 2012 |
Collaborate, Innovate: Cooperative Research Centres Association Conference
Adelaide
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15-17 MAY, 2012 |
Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference 2012
Gold Coast, Queensland.
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22-25 MAY, 2012 |
The Aboriginal health conference 2012 – everyone’s responsibility
Melbourne
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24-25 MAY, 2012 |
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Music Health Australia - Annual workshops and networking event - Ipswich, Queensland. |
2-3 JUNE, 2012 |
2nd National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Conference: Beyond 2012: Leading the Way to Action
Freemantle, WA
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6-8 JUNE, 2012 |
 Primary Healthcare Research Conference, Canberra. |
18-20 JULY, 2012 |
Population Health Congress: Population Health in a Changing World
Adelaide
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10-12 SEPT, 2012 |
2012 Kodaly National Conference
Adelaide
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2-5 OCT, 2012 |
Arts Activated National Conference
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30-31 OCT, 2012 |
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12th National Rural Health Conference
Adelaide, South Australia
Adelaide has been selected to host the 2013 National Rural Health Conference, a gathering that is expected to contribute more than $4.25 million to the state’s economy.
Health Minister John Hill said the biennial gathering attracts more than 1,200 delegates from across Australia to discuss developments and issues in rural, regional and remote health care... read more
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7-10 APRIL, 2013 |
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