Our key workers, therapists and practitioners in Wyong work as a team to support your child and family to make positive life changes.
At Everyday Independence, we offer early childhood intervention services in Wyong that include speech pathology, occupational therapy, and support through our key worker model. Our dedicated team helps children develop essential skills, focusing on personalised strategies that promote independence and well-being.
Your key worker plans and oversees your child’s services. As your main therapist and day-to-day contact, they:
Our child and family team provide services to families in Wyong and surrounding areas from our team based on the Central Coast.
Whether it’s enhancing social skills, getting ready for school, toileting, improving sleep, speech or mobility, our early childhood intervention services help improve your child’s and family’s well-being and quality of life. When you choose us for early childhood supports in Wyong, you can expect that we will:
Your first step to getting started with early childhood supports is to meet with a key worker, in your home. They get to know you, your family and child and other members of your support team to understand the outcomes you all want.
Is your child not yet a NDIS participant? Visit our NDIS page for information on getting your plan funded.
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:
We provide early childhood supports to all children with a NDIS plan, younger than nine years with developmental delay or disabilities and their families.
We use the key worker approach because it is widely recognised as the best practice approach for children with developmental delays and disabilities.
There are many benefits of the key worker model, including:
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 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.
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.
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