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Executive Functioning and Daily Tasks
Alison has become an invaluable part of my life. She supports me with meal planning and meal preparation, which helps me manage my executive functioning challenges and get through daily tasks. Alison supports me in different ways — sometimes she does things for me, and sometimes she body doubles alongside me. I’m truly grateful for all that Alison does and would highly recommend her to anyone needing similar support.
20 year old AuDHD client
Valuable Support
Patricia has been working with my son who has inattentive ADD and dyslexia. Patricia initially worked with him to help him transition from primary school to high school. She has also helped him to gain confidence and self esteem.
Patricia has been instrumental in improving my son’s working memory. She has provided supports and ideas to improve his executive functioning. I have noticed positive change in him since working with Patricia.
Patricia has provided our family with many resources and much information. She has provided me with many ideas and different approaches to help my son until we found what best works for him. She is flexible and encouraging and willing to try different approaches until finding the approach that best suits your family and your child.
Mother of son with ADHD & Dyslexia
Empowered Family
I have used a range of Social Living Solutions services over the past few years and I can highly recommend Patricia and her team to anyone looking for professional support for their neurodivergent family members and/or themselves as carers.
Patricia has been an invaluable guide and support to me, my partner and my children. Through her Family Empowerment Program, she has taught me to be a strong advocate for my children, and has empowered me to confidently speak up about their needs. Patricia has helped me trust my instincts about what me and my children need and boosted my confidence in the face of opposition. Her unwavering dedication and compassion to our family has made a huge difference in our lives. I honestly don’t know how I would have made it through the past 6 years without her support. She has helped me with the process from the initial diagnosis, through the trials and tribulation of navigating mainstream society and the school system, educating and guiding us all the way. My children and I now embrace our neurodiversity and totally accept that even though we may be different from the neuro-typicals, we have many strengths, and its OK for us to do things differently.
We share Patricia’s vision for a more inclusive world that caters for, adapts and values neurodivergent minds and their sensory challenges.
Mum of son and daughter with AuDHD
Integration
I highly recommend Patricia Falcetta of Social Living Solutions. Patricia was instrumental in getting my daughter back into school after an absence of nearly four years due to trauma endured as schools. Not only did she prepare my daughter for the culture shock of starting high school after being isolated for so long, she was there to shoulder the load when it came to making sure that the school was a good fit and was willing to meet my daughter’s needs. As a parent who was exhausted after dealing with multiple inept schools, teachers and administrators, I really needed someone who could liaise with the school on our behalf, and help us navigate the process of re-integration. Patricia is highly experienced and competent in working with autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people, but more than that – she truly cares. She has been a consistent support in my daughter’s life over the last 18 months. My daughter who has massive trust issues bonded with Patricia more quickly than I anticipated. And even though she generally hates appointments, therapies, and obligations she actually looks forward to seeing Patricia every week.
Mother of AuDHD Daughter
Passionate Support
There needs to be more Patricia’s in the world! We are very grateful that we connected with her. Patricia is so passionate about helping and supporting familes and really understands the everyday parenting struggles and challenges. It’s been a huge support having Patricia in our corner. We are gaining more understanding and knowledge of our neuordiverse family and how we can best support our children and each other to see them thrive! Patrica is compassionate, kind and patient and we really look forward to seeing her for our weekly sessions.
Canberra Mum
Apple Crumble
Today I got a call while I was at work – my child had decided to make apple crumble from scratch since I didn’t get to make it the night before. I honestly didn’t think it would happen, but they followed a tutorial, called me with questions, and… voila!
Mother of AuDHD 13 year old and AuDHD 17 year old
Creating a supportive environment
Since running through the Family Empowerment Program with Patricia, our family has become much calmer and focused on creating an ecosystem that embraces and supports our two neurodivergent childrens’ (opposite) needs.
Patricia’s advocacy has been the invaluable support I needed to navigate the never-ending issues with schools and finding the correct support for my children. Her experience brought clarity to unclear situations. Most of all, the validation she gave made a very dark and difficult time bearable. She understands what families are going through.
Mum of 2 neurodivergent boys
Extraordinary Support
Caprice has been an extraordinary support to both my son and our family. From the beginning, she showed deep understanding, warmth, and genuine kindness — helping my son feel safe, seen, and supported in ways that few others have.
He trusts her completely, which is no small thing. Whether it’s appointments, social situations, or tough emotional moments, Caprice brings calm, care, and steady guidance. She’s not just a support worker — she’s become a trusted part of our lives, and we feel incredibly fortunate to have her.
Mother of AuDHD 13 year old and AuDHD 17 yr old
I want to do something with my life
I actually feel like I want to do something with my life, I want to be productive. I know exactly what I’d like to do and how to do it. I just know what direction to take.
The help from Patricia, and from my mum, and from my sister and my family just helped me learn how to socialise, how to be a normal person, how to be involved in the community.”
16 year old teenage client
Successful School Transition
We used Social Living Solutions to help prepare my son S (now thriving in yr 7 and 13 years old).
About this time last year, when he was still in year 6, I really started to worry about how he would manage high school after several years of a really supportive primary school environment and being in essentially the same group of kids since year 2. I knew high schools offer one or two extra transition days to special needs kids but I knew S would need a lot more than that.
I contacted Patricia to see if she would be able to set up a transition program for S and help him successfully transition through to Year 7. We settled on a weekly session one afternoon after school for a bit of Year 6 term 3 and all of term 4, with the sessions to continue through terms 1 and 2 of Year 7 if necessary. I had these discussions around the time of our NDIS plan review so was able to ask for NDIS funds to cover the sessions (we are self managed).
So last year Patricia became a regular visitor to our home, each week bringing resources and examples about timetables and homework deadlines and assignments and how the school day is arranged and what lockers are for and the 1001 ways high school is different from primary school. And *really* listening to S’s questions and concerns. She also offered to come and advocate at any meetings with the school but this did not turn out to be needed in our case.
Patricia was so successful in preparing S for this transition that he actually sailed into high school. I was gobsmacked to say the least. We have had zero issues with staying organised, managing the homework load, coping with moving around the school and all the different teachers and their different expectations, and making new friends. In fact half way through term one of this year he announced to both Patricia and myself that he did not need her help anymore!
As I’ve said Patricia worked well with S and he felt super comfortable with her. She also worked closely with me and provided me with much needed support, with a considered approach. I can not recommend her highly enough. It was because of her thoughtful and insightful work with S that he (and we as a family) had the smoothest transition we have ever had in his whole life. He goes off to the school bus every morning with a big smile on his face.
Patricia saved us so much drama at what is usually a super stressful time in the lives of families like ours.
Mother of son with ADHD
Informative Presentation
Thank you so much for your presentation at James Ruse Agricultural High School on Thursday. Both the teachers and our students have said how informative, interesting and reverential your presentations and Q&A sessions on neurodiversity were. Some points of highlight for the students were their interest in the scientific explanation of neurodiversity and the brain, the ability to ask questions and feel part of the experience and the way in which you discussed neurodiversity as a collective experience, making those who are neurodivergent feel a greater sense of belonging and those who know neurodivergent people understand more about their behaviours, feelings and executive functioning.
I am hopeful that we will have more opportunities to work together in the future on our shared mission for creating inclusive, safe, respectful, educated and understanding environments for us ‘neurospicy’ folk.
Teacher
James Ruse Agricultural High School
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