Early Childhood Supports

Early childhood intervention services to support your child and family to achieve positive life changes.

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How Early Childhood Supports Deliver More

We provide early childhood support to help your child build skills wherever they’re needed—whether at daycare, school, home, or in the community.

A dedicated child and family team, led by a key worker, supports you, your child and others in their life to achieve the positive changes you want for your family.

Our key workers, mostly trained teachers, use their knowledge of child development to help your child grow socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and in language skills.

Key Workers Leading the Way

Your key worker plans and oversees your child’s services. As your main therapist and day-to-day contact, they:

Deliver most of your child’s therapy
Coordinate services from speech pathologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, behaviour support practitioners and habit coaches
Link you with community services to support your child’s development.

Supporting Positive Life Changes

Your key worker can help your child and family build new skills including:

Language and communication skills to enable your child to better express themselves, understand others, and make friends
Playing in ways that enhance cognitive development and opportunities for learning
Personal care such as cleaning teeth, toileting, washing and dressing independently
Sleep hygiene and routines for mental and physical health for your child
Using assistive technology to perform tasks more safely, securely, and independently.

Navigating transitions such as starting daycare or school, moving home, and changes in family dynamics
Gross motor and fine motor skills to enjoy in physical activities
Behaviour management for self-regulation and expressing needs and feelings
Social skills and interactions for making connections with family, friends and other people in your child’s life.

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To begin with, your key worker gets to know your child’s strengths, interests, and routines, as well as your family’s support needs. Next, they work with you to design a child and family support plan. This approach helps ensure the therapy plan is strong and your child will get the best results from therapy.

Is your child not yet an NDIS participant? Visit our NDIS page for information on getting your plan funded.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is a key worker and how do they help my child and family?

Our key workers are mainly teachers with a degree in education and specialist training in child development and learning. They will be your main therapist and day-to-day contact for all your early intervention services. They support your child and family as part of a broader team that may include speech pathologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, behaviour support practitioners, and habit coaches.

How will the key worker model benefit my child and family?

Our key workers are mainly teachers with a degree in education. They use their specialised training in child development and learning to design and implement strategies across developmental areas, including social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and language. They do this in a way that engages your family and other important people in your child’s life, such as their teacher.

There are some specialised areas that only a speech pathologist, physiotherapist or occupational therapist can assess and provide advice on. The key worker will link in these team members where this support is required.

I only need occupational or speech therapy for my child, can a key worker help with this?

Our key workers use their specialised training in child development and learning to design and implement strategies to support your child’s development. These include activities to improve fine motor skills, language development, or strategies to help with sensory processing issues. Other members of your child’s team, such as speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists, can also use these strategies.

Key workers can deliver more than an individual registered occupational therapist, speech pathologist or physiotherapist as they can implement their strategies and activities as well as those designed by the team of therapists.

More frequently asked questions are available on the key worker model, the background and experience of our key workers, and how we deliver early childhood supports.