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Working with families, carers and educators to motivate children to practice skills and positive behaviours through consideration of environment, pro-active relationship-based strategies, play, and responsive interactions.
Using collaborative problem solving strategies and routine based interviewing and interventions -to assist families, carers and educators to support children’s developing skills in a range of areas and to improve function in every day life.
Working under the supervision of speech pathologists to support families, carers and educators to implement strategies to increase a child’s ability to develop speech sounds through normal articulation development strategies, as well as implement strategies which assist children who struggle to produce sounds.
Working with parents, carers and educators to implement strategies which increase positive interaction between adults and carers. Increasing successful interactions between adults and children is the first step to increasing language skills in a child.
Visual communication strategies are used in many situations to increase a child’s success within various activities and routines.
Collaborating with families to use strategies to support sleep, identify and address sleep issues and embed effective sleep routines/practices for children and families.
Support families, carers and educators to promote and encourage children’s play skills and positive interactions with peers.
Working with parents, carers and educators to identify lagging skills and their impact on children’s daily life (such as dressing, eating, following routines) -implement strategies through play, interactions and daily routines to encourage skill development and improve function.
Supporting families/carers to develop partnerships with other professionals. Supporting families, carers and early childhood educators to develop and implement strategies (through play, daily routines and interactions) to support children and their families in readiness for school.
Using family centred approaches and collaborating in partnerships with families/carers and a range of professionals (such as speech pathologists, Occupational therapists, specialist educators) to build the capacity and confidence of all those involved in supporting and caring for children with disabilities and/or developmental delay.
When children have consistent, positive and meaningful experiences in all their environments, they are better able to succeed!