Trampoline NDIS knowledge with personal experience.
Your family will be understood, respected and cared for.
Late 2017 Web and Warehouse became an NDIS provider with our GeeTramp trampolines in 2019 we withdrew from NDIS due to ongoing expenses to remain certified.
After many years supplying trampolines through occupational therapists, speech therapists, and physiotherapists, we have seen many families come into our warehouse display seeking out the right trampoline for their child’s specific needs. What has triggered my desire to write this article is seeing how frequently families feel the need to explain their children’s behaviours or disabilities just out of their natural course of interacting with anyone new.
We want our personal experiences to ease your mind.
As a new NDIS provider, it seems a good time to write this blog that I have wanted to write for some time. An opportunity to express to families with kids of challenging behaviours or disabilities that you are safe with us and why.
We want you to know our business is a safe house for kids and their families with disabilities. We've had plenty of experience.
Andrews family story
My husband Andrew is one of 11 kids. Two of his siblings were born with disabilities. Sadly the youngest who was down syndrome with congenital heart disease died from pneumonia when he was only four. The second slightly younger brother to Andrew who is now fifty has Autism, he can walk but not speak and spends his day in his own world. He shows that he knows each of us individually by tickling or acting in a certain way with us and mostly only in that way with each person. With one sister he pretends to smoke, another he salutes, another chops wood. Although he is 50 he is quite a challenge for Andrews 80+yo parents. Peter does go to programs a couple of days a week but is very dependent on their parents for all his personal needs and guess what he wants and how he feels all the time. He gets very anxious if one parent goes out alone giving the one at home grief until they return. Socially he has become easier over time but growing up Andrew and siblings have quite a lot of challenging stories to share and some pretty funny ones too.
Julie's family story
I am lucky to have a sister with Down Syndrome, Wendy will be 50 this year and no birthday has been counted down like this one. It is a bigger milestone than for most, as she spent the first 17 years of her life very sick, she was fortunate to be able to be operated on at the age of 6 and in the following 10 years had 4 open-heart surgeries. For a short, while she would be "sort of well" and then we would notice a decline in her immune system and she would be suffering regularly from all sorts of health issues. Then soon after recovering from another heart operation. It was pretty horrid to grow up watching her suffering so much but this is why I am lucky to have her, she has made me a much better person than I would have been without her.
Four years ago Wendy came to live with us as our mother had Alzheimer’s Andrew and I became her full-time carers. (Mum passed away Nov 2017 on my birthday) Wendy was only given 10 years to live after her last op and here she is 33 years later in her 50th year. Wendy is a beneficiary of NDIS and I am so grateful for all the services available to us.
Our kids who work with us also have had a lot of experiences with Peter and Wendy growing up. Our caring staff all have their own stories too of friends or family members with a range of diseases and disabilities which collectively makes us a pretty tolerant and compassionate bunch.
Our bookkeeper Belinda has her own daily challenges with her 2 sons aged 9 and 7 both who are on the Autism spectrum, the older one much more challenging than the younger one. You can read more about their family story here.
So from reading this, we want you to know that your family will not be judged here with us, just treated with care, respect and privacy as you wish. We know the ongoing challenges for siblings, marriages, social settings, and long-term friendships, we are also happy to hear your story to understand exactly why you need a trampoline and we will better be able to serve you.
We welcome all families to our trampoline display
We just want to help you help your kids be able to enjoy a trampoline together not only for the health benefits but greater social benefits where a trampoline can often be the only place where siblings actually all feel connected for the first time. Where frustrations can be let out in a safe place, and meanwhile mum might be able to get a cup of tea down and breathe.
We welcome you to call us to discuss your family's trampoline needs.
If you have any further questions before coming in to see us please feel free to call us on 03 52921100 or message here.
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