Services and facilities
The Early Autism Supports team are based in Bundoora, at the La Trobe Community Children’s Centre. We work with children on location and at early education centres within a 30-minute drive of the centre.
The Centre is set amongst our beautiful University Campus bushland.
The Centre is rated as ‘meeting’ the National Quality Standard and has a strong focus on inclusive practice and teaching through play and daily routines.
The classrooms at our Centre are staffed with qualified educators, including staff with courses in early childhood education at Certificate Three, Diploma and Bachelor-degrees. Staff receive in-service training in Fostering Inclusion and Participation (now available online for community centres). In addition, the room leader collaborates with each child's Key Worker to identify strategies to further promote the child to easily use priority skills and accommodations to make the environment better match the child’s needs and preferences across the day, as part of the room curriculum and program.
Our educators structure their approach to maximise your child’s learning and development, with support from:
- key workers
- therapy assistants
- speech pathologists
- psychologists
- occupational therapists