NDIS Early Childhood Intervention Sydney

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

We use the key worker approach because it is the NDIA’s preferred, evidence-based approach to helping children with developmental delays and disabilities.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.