NCWA - Supporting the Community
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Conditions

Links and Resources

Neurological Support Groups

Alzheimers Australia
Centre for Cerebral Palsy
Epilepsy Association of WA
Epilepsy Action Australia
Fibromyalgia Support Network WA
Headwest (WA advocacy body for people living with acquired brain injury and their families/carers)
Headache and Migraine WA
Huntington's WA
James Crofts Hope Foundation (providing support and assistance to adults and children diagnosed with brain tumours, their carers and family)
Learning and Attentional Disorders Society of WA
Menieres Australia WA
Motor Neurone Disease Association WA
Multiple Sclerosis Society of WA
Muscular Dystrophy WA
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Society of WA (ME/CFSWA)
Myasthenia Gravis Friends and Support Group
Neurofibromatosis Association of Western Australia - Ph: (08) 9346 7488
National Stroke Foundation
Parkinson’s Western Australia
Peripheral Neuropathy Support Group - Ph: 08 9296 7190
Reconnect WA (Support network in Western Australia for people experiencing communication difficulties resulting from stroke, traumatic and other brain injury)
Spina Bifida Association WA
National Stroke Foundation
Trigeminal Neuralgia Support Group WA - Ph: 08 9385 9550


Hospital Services

Charles Gardiner Hospital Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology
Royal Perth Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital
Fremantle Hospital
Osborne Park Hospital
Joondalup Health Campus
State Head Injury Unit

Carers Services

Carers WA
Disability Services Commission
Red Cross Carers Support
Young Carers
Livewire Parents
Livewire Siblings

Grieving and Counselling

Blue Skies - Helping children cope with loss
The Compassionate Friends of WA

Employment

Rocky Bay Employment Services
Pep Choice Program
Activ Foundation

Equipment

Independent Living Centre

Research

Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute

Advocacy

Advocare
Health Consumers Council

Access

Language Translation Services
Phone Service for the deaf and/or hearing or speech impaired

Therapy and Associated Services

Continence Advisory Service
Therapy Focus

Professional Education and Training

Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy WA


Neurological Glossaries

Brain Foundation
National Institute of Neurological Disorders (US Site)
Brain and Spine Foundation (UK site)