Five-year-old Marlee was one of our incredible Carols ambassadors in 2024. Six months on from her big moment in the spotlight, we checked in with her to see how she’s getting on with support from our Life Ready program.
“Marlee’s had an amazing start to the year,” says mum Sarah. “We’ve had a lot of support from Chelsea [Marlee’s pediatric occupational therapist at Vision Australia] to help ease the transition into big school and Ai May [Marlee’s physiotherapist] has been working with her PE teacher to make everything accessible for Marlee.
“Marlee’s favourite part of school is music (who would have thought?) and she was offered to go check out the choir group last week and instantly fell in love. Needless to say she is now a part of the school choir!
“Her days are busy with school and we are doing alternating fortnights of OT and physio to meet her goals. We also attended one day [of Vision Australia’s school holiday program] over Easter and Marlee had the best time.
“Being a part of the VA community really fills her bucket!”
