Support for non-verbal teenagers
Support for non-verbal teenagers in Perth, from someone who takes the time to understand.
When a teenager communicates without words, the work is patient detective work. Vel Care Alliance reads body language, sounds and routines until we find the way in, with one worker who stays long enough to learn them.
Finding the way in
We watch, we learn, then we build.
A teenager who cannot tell you what they want is not a teenager without preferences. They are a teenager whose preferences take time to read. We take that time.
We read what is not said
Body language, sounds, the things they reach for and the things they avoid. We learn how your teenager communicates before we decide anything.
One worker who stays
The same person each week, long enough to learn the signals no one else has had time to notice. Trust is built by turning up, again and again.
We start slow, before any plan
The first sessions are for learning, not doing. We do not arrive with a program. We arrive ready to pay attention.
We work with speech and your team
We sit in with your speech pathologist and behaviour support practitioner, learn the strategies first-hand, and try them in real sessions.
What can change
Small things that turn into big ones.
One teenager who had been home for months now orders his own lunch in a cafe and volunteers in a kitchen. It started with one worker learning what he was interested in, and building from there.
We do not promise a transformation. We promise patience, a consistent person, and the time it takes to find what works.
Who we support
Teenagers other providers have found hard.
We work with non-verbal teenagers, and with teenagers whose behaviours have seen other providers step back. Vel Care Alliance is a registered NDIS provider working across the Perth metro area.
A conversation, not a commitment
Come and meet us first.
Tell us a little about your teenager, or someone on your caseload, and we will come to you. No paperwork, no pressure.