NDIS Early Childhood Intervention Services in Bankstown

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

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. Y