At Everyday Independence, we bring together the right expertise at the right time, based on your child’s goals, strengths and everyday routines and activities.
For children aged 0–8, support is typically delivered through an early childhood key worker approach.
Rather than attending separate appointments with multiple practitioners, your family has one main practitioner who delivers most supports and helps build your child’s skills in everyday environments such as home, childcare, kindergarten and the community. Additional practitioners are involved when specific expertise is needed, ensuring everyone is working towards the same goals.
Many families come to us wondering whether their child needs occupational therapy, speech pathology or physiotherapy.
But children’s development doesn’t happen in separate categories. Communication, movement, independence, confidence, learning and emotional wellbeing are all connected. That’s why we start with your child, not a service type.
At Everyday Independence, children aged 0–8 receive early childhood supports led by a dedicated early childhood key worker, who will be your child’s main practitioner.
They get to know your child and family, deliver most of your child’s therapy and work alongside you to build skills through play, everyday routines and meaningful activities.
Your key worker begins by understanding:
They then help your child build the skills they need to participate at home, in learning environments and in the community.
When additional expertise is needed, your key worker brings in other practitioners to provide specialist assessment, advice or focused support while remaining your family’s main practitioner throughout the journey.
Every child is different, so support is always tailored to your child’s strengths, needs and goals. Depending on what’s important to your family, your key worker can help your child to:
Your key worker also supports parents, carers and educators with practical strategies that can be used throughout everyday routines and activities, helping children learn in the moments that matter most.
Benefits include:
Most importantly, your family remains involved in every decision about your child’s support.
Your child’s early childhood key worker brings in the right expertise at the right time, based on your child’s goals, strengths and everyday routines and activities.
While your child may work primarily with their key worker, they may also access specialist support from our broader team when needed. This may include occupational therapy, speech pathology, physiotherapy, positive behaviour support and habit coaching.
Your early childhood key worker works closely with the wider team, bringing in additional expertise when specialist assessment, advice or focused support is needed. This means your child benefits from a coordinated approach while your family continues to work with a familiar practitioner who understands the bigger picture.
Rather than managing multiple separate therapy services, you’ll have a team working together to help your child participate more confidently in the activities, relationships and experiences that matter most.
An early childhood key worker is the main practitioner supporting a child aged 0–8 and their family. They deliver most of the child’s ongoing therapy through play, everyday routines and meaningful activities while bringing in other practitioners when specialist expertise is needed.
Yes. Your early childhood key worker can support goals related to communication, play, independence, movement and everyday routines and activities. When specialist expertise is needed, they can involve occupational therapists, speech pathologists, physiotherapists or other practitioners as part of your child’s team.
We use an Early Childhood Key worker Model for all children aged up to and including eight years where they are funded for early childhood supports through the NDIS.
Depending on your child’s needs, they may receive specialist consults and bursts of therapy from our team of practitioners, including an occupational therapist and/or a speech pathologist when this is required.
Not necessarily. Depending on your child’s goals and needs, a speech pathologist may provide specialist assessment, advice or focused support. Your child’s early childhood key worker remains the main practitioner and helps implement strategies throughout everyday routines and activities.
Your early childhood key worker begins by understanding your child’s strengths, everyday routines and activities, and your family’s goals. If specialist assessment, advice or focused support is needed, they will work with the wider team to bring in the right expertise at the right time.
Everyday Independence uses the Early Childhood Key worker Model because it is an evidence-based best practise model, recommended within the NDIS Early Childhood approach.
If you wish to only access an individual practitioner for your child, there are other early childhood providers such as our sister company, Early Start Australia. They can work with you to determine the support approach that best suits your child and family’s needs.
No. Support can take place at home, childcare, kindergarten, school or in the community. Delivering support in the places where your child naturally participates helps build skills in everyday situations.
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