Our services

Being stronger together means your child thrives forever: Nurturing your family’s bond with care

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Emotional regulation

Tailored intervention strategies are created to help children and their families recognize, understand, and manage emotions effectively, fostering improvements in functionality and wellbeing

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School readiness

Transitions are facilitated by coordinating with key stakeholders to ensure that not only is the child well-prepared for school, but also that the school environment is tailored to meet the child's unique needs

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Social communication

Role-playing and real-world practice opportunities are utilised to develop essential social skills and build meaningful relationships, which are fundamental to a child's emotional well-being, self-esteem, and overall quality of life

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Sensory processing

Children process sensory experiences in a range of ways that create an overstimulation or under stimulation of the sensory system

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Family systems therapy

Addressing family dynamics can be an essential component to establishing strong family bonds, reducing conflict and ensuring that all family members feel validated and valued

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Activities of daily living

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Children and their families may struggle with daily routines such as getting ready for school or bedtime. We collect as much information as possible to decipher how certain adaptations may support a more harmonious and enjoyable experience of functional life skills development

Behaviour therapy

Elements of an environment can be quite triggering for a child, causing them to express their emotions as certain reactive behaviours. Using the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework, we explore and address all external systems to help prevent challenging behaviours and allow the child to thrive

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Tailored resources

Children and families can contribute to resource development that is individualised to their interests and needs, and aimed at assisting the teaching and learning process of skill development  

How are support services offered?

Our therapy is typically a mobile service offered in a child’s natural environment such as at home, childcare or school. We do this for a number of reasons:

Familiar settings help kids and families relax, leading to better engagement and more effective results.

Observations in natural settings reveal a child’s true abilities, behaviors, triggers and social interactions,

Observations help gather key bits of information for developing effective, practical strategies that are directly applicable to the challenges.

Home-based therapy makes it easier for family members to participate in and understand the intervention process, potentially improving outcomes.

Parents find clinic visits stressful and tough to manage.

Parents notice that their child acts differently across home, school, and clinic. This is due to environmental and social factors that influence a child’s reactions to different settings.

Delivering intervention strategies in familiar spaces helps children and parents to develop and apply skills where they will use them.

FAQs

  • Developmental educators primarily concentrate on enhancing cognitive, social, emotional and developmental skills, while occupational therapists focus more on promoting functional independence in daily activities and physical function.

    Developmental educators tend to emphasize the child's everyday environments, incorporating daily routines and play into their therapy, using educational strategies and developmental assessments. Occupational therapists tend to use activity analysis and may create more structured environments with specific equipment tailored to address specific functional skills.

  • Yes it certainly can be. Developmental educators have their own line item under the NDIS price guide and provide their service under the category ‘Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living’.

    They are considered as recommended therapy supports for early childhood and for children over the age of 7. Although you may not ‘developmental educator’ listed on your child’s NDIS plan, it is highly likely that you are still able to use their services if you wish to do so.

    We are also able to provide behaviour therapy covered by an agency-funded (NDIS) allocation of funds.

  • Yes absolutely. OTs and speech therapists are fantastic for their specialised focus but families might feel something is missing. These therapies often target specific skills in a clinical setting, but sometimes they don’t always fully address how those skills integrate into daily life at home, school or into real-world routines.

    A developmental educator’s role is to fill in those gaps but ensuring that the skills learnt in clinic are translated to different environments and to ensure that a more unified approach is taken to a child’s therapy goals. They also focus on supporting the family in the process, which is an integral part of holistic care.