Our team

Our team incorporates professionals in the following disciplines:

• Early childhood education (e.g., educators and teachers),
• Psychology,
• Occupational therapy, and
• Speech pathology.

Working collaboratively with  a child’s education team and family, specialist professionals combine their areas of expertise to assess current support needs, ideas for future adjustments and accommodations, and co-develop children’s learning goals.

Each team member is trained and mentored in transdisciplinary key worker supports grounded in the ESDM and share their specialist skills amongst each child’s care team. By using a transdisciplinary key worker model, the team share their specialist areas of knowledge and experience to empower everyone that the child lives, learns and grows with.

For more information about autism services, please visit the, Raising Children website.

Each family has a Key Worker, who is their main contact regarding their child's early autism supports. Our Key Workers are experienced ESDM-trained therapists with a qualification in either early education, speech pathology, occupational therapy, or psychology.

Twice a year Key Workers partner with the child’s family and education team to assess children’s skills and evaluate helpful accommodations that can be made in the classroom, at home, and in the community. The Key Worker monitors children's progress on their learning goals weekly, share key information and helpful strategies amongst the care team, and empower families to engage in, make, and strengthen community connections.

Working together with our Specialist team, our qualified early childhood educators embed each child’s individualised learning goals in the classroom, in a naturalistic way within a child’s daily routine..

Our education team have extensive experience in supporting the learning priorities and implementing helpful strategies to facilitate neurodiverse inclusive classes. This includes:

• Attuning to children’s wants, needs, interests, emotions, and preferences
• supporting the development of children’s personal independence, self-care, and self-advocacy skills
• facilitating communication through various methods of communication including gestural, visual, and verbal, and tailoring this to children’s skills and preferences
• shaping the curriculum to incorporate children’s individual goals and interests
• setting up the classroom environment to maximise children’s learning opportunities and provide designated areas for children to engage in motivating activities that utilise their different strengths
• developing fun learning experiences to support all children to enjoy meaningful and interesting shared play with their peers at their own comfortable pace
• communicating with families to share their child’s learning and what  accommodations and supports have been helpful

This team consists of our Centre Manager, Assistant Manager Inclusive Supports Manager, and Inclusive Supports Coordinators.

Our Centre Management team holds a strong commitment to the inclusion of all children and to supporting families through best-practice early education and care, shared and ongoing learning, capacity building, and evidence-based early-years supports.