About Show Your Ability
Show Your Ability visits five venues annually, in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Christchurch and Dunedin; and showcases an average of over 80 exhibitors to over 2000 visitors each year.
Show Your Ability was originally conceived by Occupational Therapist, David Guest who has been running the Show annually since 1999.
The roadshow, which has always been free for visitors to attend, has become increasingly popular with disabled people, their support workers and their whanau, as a way to make informed decisions about the options and services that are available.
About David
David Guest is an Occupational Therapist (OT) with over 30 years of experience, based in Waikato, New Zealand.
David has always worked in the area of housing modifications; as a community OT with the District Health Board, with Enable New Zealand in the administration of funding for housing modifications, and in private practice. Through his career, David has been heavily involved in the development of past Ministry policy for housing modifications and OT competency requirements. From 2001 - 2006, David was part of the team closing the Kimberley Centre in Taitoko (Levin) providing 66 modified group houses to residents leaving the institution.
As the sole contracted nationwide provider of OT housing modification workshops for Disability Support Services, David has delivered over 60 workshops to more than 800 Occupational Therapists.
David is in private practice undertaking housing assessments for ACC in the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty areas.
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+64 21 240 8622
info@3am.net.nz