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NDIS Early Childhood Intervention Sydney

Our Sydney key workers, therapists and practitioners work as a team to support children and families to make positive life changes.

How our NDIS Early Childhood Supports in Sydney Deliver More

Our NDIS early childhood supports, or early childhood intervention services, help children with disabilities and developmental delay aged up to nine years in Sydney to 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.

Supporting Positive Life Changes

As a registered NDIS provider, 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.

 

How We Deliver Early Childhood Supports in Sydney

Watch our short animation on how your dedicated child and family team supports you to achieve the positive changes you want for your family.

Getting Started with Early Childhood Supports in Sydney

If your child has a NDIS plan, your family is ready to begin.

Step 1: Complete our simple online referral form
Step 2: We’ll match you with a key worker and therapy team based on your goals and therapist availability
Step 3: A key worker  visits your home for an initial assessment
Step 4: We work together to develop your personalised Child and Family Support Plan.

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

Frequently Asked Questions about Early Childhood Supports in Sydney

What is early childhood intervention?

Early childhood intervention (or early childhood services) aims to help children with developmental delay and/or disabilities and their families access support to promote their child’s wellbeing, community participation and development.

As children’s brains grow most during their early years, the earlier they receive early intervention services, the better the outcome will likely be.

Early childhood intervention promotes:

  • optimal chances of physical development
  • improved social and emotional outcomes
  • ability to participate in everyday activities
  • positive behaviours and ability to engage in learning
  • confidence, resilience and independence
Who do you provide early childhood supports to?

We provide early childhood supports to all children with a NDIS plan, aged up to eight years.  with developmental delay or disabilities and their families.

We use the key worker approach because it is the recommended best practice approach for children with developmental delays and disabilities.

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

There are many benefits of the key worker model, including:

  • families have access to a team of practitioners with different skills and knowledge through one practitioner
  • reduces the number of practitioners that a child and family need to get to know, making it easier to build a trusting relationship
  • working with one practitioner who understands the family’s needs and goals enables consistent delivery of services to meet the child’s developmental needs
  • reduces the stress of juggling appointments and services from multiple practitioners
  • the needs of the whole family are considered, which better equips them to build on their strengths and make the positive changes needed to support the child’s development needs

This model is widely considered best practice in supporting a child’s developmental needs because it leads to better long-term outcomes for the child and family.

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

As degree-qualified teachers, our key workers use their specialised training in child development and learning to design and implement strategies to support your child’s development. This includes activities to improve their fine motor skills, language development or strategies to help with their sensory processing issues. These strategies can also be used by other members of your child’s team, such as speech pathologists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists.

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

Are key workers qualified to deliver therapy if they aren’t an occupational therapist, speech pathologist or physiotherapist?

As degree-qualified teachers, our key workers use their specialised training in child development and learning to design and implement strategies across developmental areas which include 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. 

What is your key workers’ experience in supporting autistic children and children with global developmental delay?

Our key workers are experienced in supporting children with disabilities, global developmental delay, and children on the autism spectrum.

They’ll use their skills and knowledge to engage with your child’s interests and use these as a basis for therapy and development. Our key workers also take a tailored approach to meet each child’s unique needs and abilities, focusing on their strengths and interests to help them reach their full potential. They work closely with your family to understand your child’s needs and to create a supportive and consistent environment for your child.

Where will my child’s sessions be held?

Your child will have their therapy sessions delivered in the places where they spend their time, such as home, school, or community settings. This can help your child learn and practice skills in real-world environments and enables the key worker to identify barriers holding them back from being fully included. 

Why choose Everyday Independence early childhood intervention?

We have been supporting people with disabilities to live to their potential and enjoy and everyday life for more than 20 years and have been an accredited NDIS therapy provider since 2013. We are unique in our ability to support people at every life stage and during those important transition periods in a person’s life.

You can have peace of mind knowing that our occupational therapists, speech pathologists, and physiotherapists are registered with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. They are also registered to work with vulnerable people, hold a valid Working with Children Check for the state they work in, and a police check.

Our key workers are degree qualified teachers with a thorough understanding of early childhood development. All of our team members are registered to work with vulnerable people, hold a valid Working with Children Check for the state they work in, and a police check.

Our keyworkers and therapists also undertake regular training to ensure they are up to date with best practice, evidence-based therapies, and the NDIS.

Where are we located?

We have seven therapy hubs in Sydney located across metropolitan Sydney:

  • Greater Western Sydney
  • Macarthur
  • North Western Sydney
  • South Eastern Sydney
  • South Western Sydney
  • Sutherland
  • Western Sydney

Our therapy teams at each hub come to you to provide NDIS therapy services in your everyday routines.

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A Team Approach For Positive Change

Our teams across Sydney also deliver the following services to children over ne nears, and adults.

NDIS Occupational Therapy Sydney

NDIS Speech Pathology Sydney

NDIS Physiotherapy Sydney

NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Sydney

NDIS Habit Coaching Sydney

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