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​Start Your Journey

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​Building Skills for Daily Life

​Personalised support to build your skills, ​achieve your goals, ​and enhance your ​daily living and ​well-being.

Empowering Independent Living Through Nutrition

At Nutritionally Ahead, we are dedicated to empowering NDIS participants with the skills and confidence to achieve their personal goals and enhance their health and well-being. With over eight years of experience, we provide a personalised and supportive approach to nutrition, helping you or your participant work towards what matters most to them. 
We have extensive experience working with individuals with neurodiversity (such as autism and ADHD), Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, Intellectual Disabilities, and various mental health conditions.

​As a registered NDIS provider, we focus on capacity building to help you achieve the goals in your plan. Our services are designed to improve your daily living skills and support your overall health and well-being.

Specialised Nutritional Interventions

  • Improving Food Intake: We provide targeted support for people living with food selectivity and challenging food-related behaviours that impact their daily life. Our goal is to expand food choices and create a more positive relationship with food.
  • Mealtime Management Skills: Get expert training to make mealtimes less stressful and more enjoyable.
  • Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN)& Supplement Management: Receive expert support for managing tube feeding and nutritional supplements, ensuring you meet your individual health needs.
  • Support for Carers and Staff: We work directly with carers and support staff to improve their cooking skills and nutritional knowledge, ensuring consistent, high-quality care.

Building Independence in the Kitchen & Beyond

  • Supported Independent Living (SIL)Meal Planning and Menu Reviews: We provide support to SIL teams to create practical, nutritious, and compliant meal plans and menus that meet the specific needs of participants.
  • Cooking Sessions at Home: We provide hands-on cooking sessions in the comfort of your own home, from basic food preparation to creating delicious and nutritious meals.
  • Food Shopping Tours: Gain confidence and skills in choosing healthy foods, reading labels, and budgeting for groceries.
  • Personalised Visual Tools: We create customised visual charts and educational materials to support meal planning, cooking, and food-related skills both inside and outside the kitchen.
  • Meal Planning & Recipe Creation: We'll help you develop simple, tailored meal plans and recipes that are easy to follow and support your nutritional needs.

How Our InBody Scanner Powers Your Health Journey & Strengthens NDIS Reports

Our cutting-edge InBody scanner is a powerful tool to empower participants with a deeper understanding of their health, while also providing objective, evidence-based data to strengthen NDIS reports.

​The data from the scan can be a powerful tool for:
  • Providing Measurable Progress: The scan provides objective data, such as segmental muscle mass, which is more meaningful than a traditional scale. For example, we can report on:
    • Lower Body Goals: How an increase in muscle mass in a participant's lower limbs contributes to their ability to stand or walk.
    • Upper Body Goals: How an increase in muscle mass in their arms and torso contributes to their ability to use a manual wheelchair or improve their independence with daily tasks.
  • Monitoring Holistic Health: The scan provides a comprehensive view of a participant's health that goes beyond muscle and fat. It measures visceral fat (fat around the organs), which is a key indicator of overall health, and intra/extra cellular water, which can be used to monitor inflammation and hydration.
  • Justifying Your Ongoing Supports: The scan helps to justify that your dietetic support is both "reasonable and necessary" by demonstrating the value and effectiveness of the plan.
  • Goal Setting and Motivation: The scan provides tangible, motivating data that helps participants feel more empowered and engaged with their health journey. Seeing your progress in a detailed report can boost your confidence and help you stick to your goals.

Ultimately, the data from the scan is a powerful tool to help you or your participant live a healthier, more independent life.
Please note: The InBody scan requires the participant to stand on the device and remain still for a brief period. The service is available at our clinics, and our scanner is also portable for home visits in easily accessible locations with a ground floor or a lift.

To learn more about the InBody scanner and how it can help you or a participant on their health journey, please click here to visit our advanced body composition scan page.

Ready to Take the Next Step Towards Improved Health?

We offer flexible and convenient appointment options to suit your lifestyle. You can choose to meet with us in one of our clinics, have a home visit in the Illawarra, Southern Highlands and Sydney regions, or connect with us online via Telehealth.

Book your NDIS consultation with us today to learn how we can help you achieve your goals through a supportive and empowering approach to nutrition.

NDIS Intake

REFERRAL IS THE BEST WAY TO GET STARTED
To streamline the intake process, we recommend you complete our online referral form below. It's the quickest and easiest way to submit your details directly to us.​
If you have any issues with the form, you can also access it in a new browser window by clicking here.
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​Alternatively, you can download, complete, and email our electronic referral form to us. You can also send us a message or call us for a chat if you have any questions.
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Funding Information

This service can be funded through the following NDIS categories:
  • Capacity Building - Improved Daily Living (Category 15)
  • Capacity Building - Improved Health and Wellbeing (Category 12)
Locations
2/11 Cahors Rd, Padstow NSW 2211
397a Princes Hwy, Woonona NSW 2517
​Online​​
Nutritionally Ahead
Tuesday: 8.00am - 8.00pm
​Wednesday: 9.00am - 7.00pm
Thursday: 9.00am - 8.00pm
​Friday: 9.00am - 3.00pm
Saturday: 8.00am - 1.00pm (select Saturdays)
Postal Address
PO Box 30, Woonona, NSW 2517
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NDIS

Nutritionally Ahead is registered with the NDIS. We are experienced in working with people living with a disability, and have been providing services within the NDIS for over seven years.
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Nutritionally Ahead has extensive experience in working with autism spectrum, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, intellectual disability and mental health consumers. We can assist you or your participant in a number of ways, such as:
  • Cooking sessions in your/your participant’s home to increase independent living and nutrition related cooking skills
  • Creating visual tools and educational materials to support meal planning and cooking skills
  • Dietary assessments
  • Dietary behaviour change therapy and education
  • Feeding regimens
  • Food label reading skills training
  • ​Food shopping tours
  • Guidance for carers, support workers and staff in cooking skills and nutritional knowledge
  • Individually tailored dietary advice and nutrition/meal plans
  • Individually tailored recipes
  • Managing Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) and nutritional supplements
  • Meal time management skills training
  • Nutrition education sessions such as:
    • How to choose suitable foods when eating out, including eating at fast food outlets, and food courts
    • How to understand and order from menus
    • ​Portion control
  • Shopping skills training
  • Supported Independent Living (SIL) meal planning and menu reviews
All services can be delivered via:
Home visits (Illawarra/Shoalhaven and Sydney regions) 
​In clinic - ​Padstow (Sydney) or Woonona (Wollongong)
Telehealth - Online via Zoom
Some specific dietary and medical areas include, but are not limited to:
  • Autism and related issues such as food selectivity
  • Chronic constipation
  • COPD
  • Diabetes management
  • Dysphagia and texture modification
  • Eating disorders / Disordered eating / Food selectivity
  • Fussy eating
  • Gastrointestinal issues i.e. IBS
  • General healthy eating​
  • Growth and development 
  • Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) 
  • ​Heart health:
    • Cardiovascular disease
    • High blood pressure
    • High cholesterol
  • Malnutrition & unintentional weight loss
  • Managing food cravings / Increased appetite
  • Mental health consumers
  • Nutrition supplementation
  • ​Paediatrics (children & teenagers)
  • Plant-based, vegan & vegetarian diets
  • Weight maintenance – gain  / loss
If you have an issue not listed, please send us a message or call to find out how we can best help. Consultations are specific to your needs, to help you achieve your NDIS goals.
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NDIS Intake
Nutritionally Ahead is a registered NDIS provider. ​If you would like to have Nutritionally Ahead work with you or your participant, a service agreement can be developed. Please send us a message, or call to discuss further. Alternatively, you can download the electronic referral form below to complete and email to us.
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Funding can be drawn from the following categories:
Core Supports – Daily Activities - Assistance with Daily Life (Category 01)
Capacity Building - Improved Daily Living (Category 15)​
Capacity Building - Improved Health and Wellbeing (Category 12)
Clinic Addresses
2/11 Cahors Rd, Padstow NSW 2211
397a Princes Hwy, Woonona NSW 2517 ​
Nutritionally Ahead
Tuesday: 8.00am - 5.00pm
​Wednesday: 9.00am - 7.00pm
Postal Address
PO Box 30, Woonona, NSW 2517
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