Early Childhood Supports (Under 9)

(NDIS SUPPORT ITEM - 15_625_0118_1_3)

Capacity Building - Improved Daily Living

Early Childhood Intervention Professional – Early Childhood Teacher or Educator

As a highly trained and experienced Special Education Teacher I provide Early Childhood Supports. My approach is person-centred, evidence-informed, strengths-based, and designed to complement (not duplicate) existing therapy supports.

Key Worker – Early Childhood Supports

I offer Key Worker support under NDIS Early Childhood Intervention, providing families with a single, consistent point of contact to guide, coordinate, and strengthen supports around their child.

With a background in special education and advanced training in autism, my role focuses on building caregiver capacity, understanding each child’s strengths and needs, and ensuring strategies are practical, evidence-based, and embedded into everyday routines.

I work collaboratively with families, early learning settings, and allied health professionals to translate recommendations into meaningful, real-world support across home, early childhood, and community environments.

This approach promotes consistency, reduces overwhelm for families, and supports children’s development, participation, and independence in ways that are individualised, strengths-based, and aligned with NDIS goals.

What is a Key Worker?

A Key Worker is one main person who works alongside your family to help make early childhood supports clearer, more connected, and easier to manage.

Instead of having to coordinate lots of different professionals on your own, your Key Worker becomes your go-to contact. They take time to understand your child’s strengths, needs, and goals, help bring everyone together, and support you to use strategies in everyday routines at home, early learning, and in the community.

My Key Worker support is informed by special education training and autism expertise, with a strong focus on building your confidence as a parent or carer. I help translate reports and recommendations into practical, meaningful strategies that fit your child, your family, and your daily life - not just therapy sessions.

The goal of Key Worker support is to reduce overwhelm, increase consistency across settings, and support your child’s development, participation, and independence in ways that are strengths-based and aligned with your NDIS goals.

ElevatED Approach

1 - Comprehensive Data Gathering & Assessment

I begin by developing a thorough understanding of the child, their environment, and their support needs through:

Parent interview and family consultation
Gathering background information including strengths, interests, communication style, barriers, goals, what works/what doesn’t, and details of the current support network.

Allied Health Collaboration

I work closely with allied health professionals to bring together assessments, observations, and insights into one clear picture of your child.

Review of existing documentation
(e.g. diagnostic reports, NDIS plan goals, therapy reports, school reports, behaviour or learning assessments).

Observations across settings
Home and/or school observations, including transitions, routines, social interactions, emotional regulation, communication, and environmental factors.

Child-centred engagement
1:1 rapport-building sessions during interest-based activities to ensure the child’s voice, preferences, and experiences are included.

Sensory assessment (where appropriate)
Conducting the Sensory Profile 2 and providing a report outlining the child’s sensory processing profile and implications for support.

2 - Development of an ElevatED Support Plan

A collaborative, practical support plan is developed with SMART goals aligned with NDIS goals.

Focus areas are identified in stage 1 and may include:

social-emotional development, communication, literacy/numeracy foundations, school readiness, transitions, sensory processing, independence and daily living skills.

Resource Development

Personalised, evidence-based resources are created where required, and can include:

visual supports and routines
skill-building tools
communication or regulation supports
collaboration resources

The plan also serves as an advocacy and communication tool, clearly outlining:

the child’s strengths, interests, characteristics and preferences
areas of difficulty and functional impact
evidence-based strategies to support identified needs
Allied Health/Support team members, and services they are providing

The ElevatED support plan provides a holistic overview of all services and supports, bringing together goals, strategies, and roles to ensure a coordinated and consistent approach for the child.

3 - Implementation, Modelling & Coaching

I support the child’s team to put strategies into practice through:

coaching, modelling and guidance for families, support workers and school staff
1:1 sessions with the child to introduce and practise strategies
capacity-building supports to embed skills in real-world contexts
generalisation of therapy goals across environments

4 - Ongoing Monitoring & Evaluation

Progress is reviewed regularly, including:

monitoring goals
adjusting strategies where needed
collaboration with the child, family, and support team

Collaborative, Non-Competitive Partnership with Allied Health

ElevatED Inclusion & Support works alongside allied health practitioners. We complement, not duplicate, therapeutic services.

Our role strengthens consistency across environments and supports the carry-over of therapy goals into everyday routines at home, school, and in the community.

How we support allied health teams:

Reinforcing therapy goals through capacity-building supports
Supporting skill generalisation between sessions
Translating reports into practical, strengths-based strategies others can confidently use
Providing contextual insights from education and disability practice
Maintaining clear scope of practice, boundaries, and open communication

Our aim is to reduce the pressure on families to “coordinate everything,” strengthen team alignment, and help ensure allied health expertise has a meaningful, lasting impact beyond the therapy room.