Making Milestones SA

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Making Milestones SA
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    • Speech Pathology Adelaide
    • Occupational Therapy For Children in Adelaide
    • Children Psychology Adelaide
    • Dietetics
    • Sensory & Behaviour
    • Sensory Playgroup and Party Hub
    • Speech & Language Support
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Meet The Team

Founder and Director

Ursula Portolesi

Founder and Director
Ursula is passionate about supporting children and adults with additional needs and their families to be the best that they can be. She has developed Making Milestones to offer families a service which combines a range of flexible therapy options, a skilled and passionate clinical team and outstanding facilities to support both children and adults to meet their goals and reach their potential.
As well as running the practice Ursula works with children and adults to build effective communication skills and safe eating and swallowing.

Speech Pathology

Ursula Portolesi

Founder and Senior Speech Pathologist
Ursula completed her studies in Speech Pathology at Finders University and has many years experience working with both adults and children. She works with children to develop speech, language and social communication skills, as well as promote safe eating and a varied and healthy diet. She has an interest in literacy development and has done additional training in supporting children with dyslexia.
Ursula also works with adult clients with communication difficulties and dysphagia to develop effective communication and safe eating.

Jo Brenecki

Senior Speech Pathologist
Jo is a speech pathologist with over 25 years of experience in working with children with communication challenges and their families.
Jo is passionate about early intervention and autism spectrum disorders and also enjoys supporting children with speech, language, and literacy difficulties. Jo also enjoys supporting students and recent graduates to build their clinical skills and confidence as a clinician.

Paloma D'Addario

Speech Pathologist
Paloma is a speech pathologist with several years experience working with adult clients with communication, eating and swallowing difficulties.
Paloma will be joining the Making Milestones team in 2022 working with adult clients in their own homes.

Madeline Campbell

Speech Pathologist

Madeline completed her studies in Speech Pathology at La Trobe University and has experience working with children with speech and language delays.

Maddi worked in Darwin for 12 months and has recently relocated to Adelaide. She enjoys working with children with speech delays and disorders, and language delays. She loves to work with children in preschool and junior primary and also has experience with children in middle and upper primary school, working on speech, language and social communication.

 

Occupational Therapy

Caitlin McKenzie

Senior Occupational Therapist

Caitlin completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) at the University of South Australia.

Caitlin has a passion for working with children of all ages with a variety of learning difficulties including those with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She aims to increase independence in activities of daily living, fine and gross motor skills, sensory and emotional regulation and behaviour. She is passionate about working closely with families to provide the best support for children.

Henry Thai

Occupational Therapist
Henry graduated from UniSA in 2018 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Therapy.
Henry works with both adults and children and is passionate about promoting independence and improving quality of life for people of all ages. Henry speaks fluent Vietnamese and enjoys supporting families in the local Vietnamese community.

Jess Pollifrone

Occupational Therapist
Jess completing her studies in Occupational Therapy at the University of South Australia in 2021. She joined the Making Milestones team as a student working as an Allied Assistant and now works as an Occupational Therapist.
Jess is passionate about working with children with autism to develop sensory regulation and social skills. Jess enjoys working with school age children and working in schools in collaboration with teachers and parents.

Nicholas Lopresti

Occupational Therapist

Nick completed his studies in Occupational Therapy at the University of South Australia in 2021. He joined the Making Milestones team as a student working as an Allied Health Assistant and now works as a qualified Occupational Therapist.

Nick enjoys working with children of all ages and developing their emotional regulation skills.

Maria Halakias

Occupational Therapist
Maria is an experienced occupational therapist who joined Making Milestones in 2022.
Maria will be working part-time with both adults and children. Maria has many years experience working with adults as an occupational therapist and now as a parent of two young children she enjoys working with children and their families.

Stephen Lor

Occupational Therapist
Stephen is currently completing his studies at UniSA to be an occupational therapist.
Stephen will be joining Making Milestones in 2022, working part-time with both adults and children.

Mental Health

Gina Mezzino

Mental Health Social Worker

Gina is a social worker with over 25 years of experience. She is qualified to work with clients with mental health needs.

Gina has extensive experience working with parents and children to support children’s social emotional development and behaviour. She has many years experience in working with First Nations families.

Trish Nesci

Mental Health Social Worker
Trish is a social worker with over 25 years of experience. She is qualified to work with clients with mental health needs.
Trish has extensive experience supporting families to develop their children’s social emotional development and behaviour. She has worked for many years with migrants and refugees and is passionate about providing support for families with culturally and linguistically diverse.

Administration, Finance and Program Development

Leia Lastella

Administration Manager

Leia is a founding member of Making Milestones who manages the day to day running of the clinic including referrals, bookings, enquiries and billing. Leia has a background in business management and her friendly manner and professional skills keep everything running smoothly.

Leia is available on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays to support both clients and other team members.

Tammy Administration Manager

Tammy Francesca

Administration Manager

Tammy works alongside Leia to manage the day to day running of the clinic including referrals, bookings, enquiries and billing. Tammy has a background in business management. Her friendly manner and passion for supporting both staff and clients is a great asset to our team.

Tammy is available on Wednesdays and Fridays to support both clients and other team members.

Nadia De Marco

Public Relations and Marketing

Nadia has worked in business for many years and works part-time to support Ursula, the Director,  in the overall running of Making Milestones.

Nadia also manages the marketing of our services and liaises with providers in the medical, therapy and education fields to learn more about how Making Milestones can work alongside them to better support their clients.

Allied Health Assistants and Workshop Team

Alexandra Armiento

Allied Health Assistant

Ally is currently studying Speech Pathology at Uni SA. She is a valued member of our team who works across a number of programs and has a great rapport with our younger clients in particular.

Ally works at Making Milestones as an Allied Health Assistant running our Sensory Playgroups and providing individual support for children with speech and language needs at preschool, school and child care under the direction of our clinicians. She also works in our Party Hub and on reception.

Victoria Di Niro

Allied Health Assistant

Victoria is currently studying Psychology at Uni SA. She works across a number of programs and loves supporting our younger clients to meet their developmental goals.

Victoria works at Making Milestones as an Allied Health Assistant running our Sensory Playgroups and providing individual support for children with speech and language needs at preschool, school and child care under the direction of our clinicians. She also works in our Party Hub and on reception.

Marielle Ros

Allied Health Assistant

Marielle is currently studying Speech Pathology at Uni SA and will enter her final year in 2022.

Marielle will join the Making Milestones team as an Allied Health Assistant in 2022 running our Sensory Playgroups and providing individual support for children with speech and language needs at preschool, school and child care under the direction of our clinicians.

Monique Jones

Allied Health Assistant

Monique is currently studying Speech Pathology at Uni SA. She works across a number of programs including with preschool clients and in our sensory playgroup.

Monique works at Making Milestones as an Allied Health Assistant running our Sensory Playgroups and providing individual support for children with speech and language needs at preschool, school and child care under the direction of our clinicians. She also works in our Party Hub and on reception.

Dominic Sangermano

Allied Health Assistant

Dominic is currently studying Primary Education. He supports our younger and adolescent clients to meet their developmental goals in community settings.

He works at Making Milestones as an Allied Health Assistant providing individual support for children with learning, cognition and lifestyle needs at preschool, school, community settings and child care under the direction of our clinicians.

Zak Zoina

Allied Health Assistant

Zak is a University Student with experience in working with children in Out of School Care Settings.

He works with the Making Milestones team as an Allied Health Assistant in providing individual support for children and adolescents with learning needs under the direction of our clinicians.

Isaac Handley

Allied Health Assistant

Isaac is currently studying Occupational Therapy at Uni SA. He works with clients from preschoolers to adolescents in clinic and community settings.

Isaac works at Making Milestones as an Allied Health Assistant providing individual support for children to develop daily living and life skills under the direction of our clinicians.

Karlee Norton

Allied Health Assistant

Karlee is currently studying Speech Pathology through Charles Darwin University while raising her two young sons.

She works at Making Milestones as an Allied Health Assistant providing individual support for children with speech and language needs at preschool and child care under the direction of our clinicians.

Stephanie Nguyễn

Allied Health Assistant

Stephanie is a final year Speech Pathology Student at Flinders University.

She works with the Making Milestones team as an Allied Health Assistant in providing individual support for children and adolescents with communication and learning needs under the direction of our clinicians.

Contact Us

If you would like to make an appointment or require further information, please contact us using the details below.
Making Milestones
Shop 2 & 3
809 - 813 Port Road Woodville SA 5011
M: 08 7082 4233
F: 08 7082 4277

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