Leyla Blooms with Confidence

Leyla is a happy five-year-old who loves playing outdoors, having tea parties, and playing with playdoh and other sensory toys.

Leyla’s parents engaged Everyday Independence for early childhood supports (early childhood intervention services) to build her communication and language skills, be more independent, and work on her social play skills so she could make new friends at kinder.

Before coming to Everyday Independence, Leyla’s language, independence, self-care and social skills were limited. Leyla just wanted to be a ‘big girl’ and do things more for herself, and let others know what she wanted.

Being supported by a key worker and team of therapists has been perfect in helping Leyla in building a wide range of skills. Leyla’s team provides therapy and services in various settings including her home and kinder, enabling them to uncover any barriers holding Leyla back, and identify the additional supports she needs.

Key Worker Sonia, the family’s main contact for her services, attends Leyla’s kinder to help work on her social skills. This includes practicing turn taking and sharing when playing with her friends. Sonia also works closely with Leyla’s educators to build their capacity to support Leyla to participate in the activities by modifying the activities for her or providing her with additional support or instructions.

Janice, the speech pathologist is helping Leyla build her communication skills by showing mum how to use meaningful play and their daily routine at home to build Leyla’s language skills. Habit Coach Deanna is providing bursts of therapy sessions to help Leyla build her communication skills quickly, using play, modelling and other simple techniques.

Fast forward, everyone is thrilled by Leyla’s progress. Her communication has increased as her vocabulary has developed. Leyla can now use short sentence structures when speaking. She is taking turns during play with peers, shares, and enjoys engaging and completing tabletop activities at kinder.

When asked about her time with Leyla, Sonia said;

While working with Leyla, I’ve seen her confidence grow. Her communication is developing, she’s becoming more independent, and has developed a new friendship at kinder.

Sonia – Key Worker

Next, Leyla and her team will work on the skills Leyla needs to transition successfully to school.

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