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School readiness learning resources for kindergartens

Our team of experienced allied health practitioners can provide support in many different ways to help kindergarten children to become school-ready. This includes providing expertise in the areas of communication, language, social and emotional wellbeing and access and inclusion.

School readiness programs can:
- be customised to kindergartens to suit a range of formats and needs.
- provide support to build the skills and knowledge of both the educators and families.

Support is provided through case consultation, provision of group training and other discipline-specific services to enhance children's learning and development.

Allied health support

Improve teaching outcomes by tapping into the expertise of our early childhood allied health team! Using a capacity-building approach, we work with educators and teachers to provide customised support, including coaching and training, group facilitation and consultation regarding the needs of classrooms and individual children.

This includes:

• Occupational Therapy - Our Occupational therapists work with educators to enhance children's social and emotional regulation, physical development and sensory processing.
• Psychology - Our psychologists work with educators to enhance and support children's social and emotional wellbeing, mental health and identity.
• Speech Pathology - Our speech pathologists work with educators to enhance children's communication, language and social skills.
• Education/family support worker - Our specialised educators work with other educators to enhance children's wellbeing and access and inclusion outcomes.

Learning resources and school readiness funding programs menu

We can customise School Readiness programs and workshops to support your kindergarten's specific needs.

We currently offer programs and resources that support:

• children's speech, language and literacy
• children's social and emotional wellbeing
• educators, caregivers and families to aid children's development.

Allied Health: multi-disciplinary teams case consultation

Using a coaching approach, a team of allied health practitioners (speech pathologists, psychologists, occupational therapists) work with kindergarten teachers, children and families.
Outcome areas: Communication, Wellbeing and Access & Inclusion.

Coaching

There is a growing body of evidence that coaching support for early childhood educators and teachers leads to improved practice and supports children's learning outcomes.

Coaching is a structured process based on an ongoing relationship between two or more people for professional learning and the improvement of professional practice. Educators and service leaders can work with a coach to improve their curriculum planning, pedagogical strategies, assessment techniques and other aspects of training particularly focused on school readiness funding priority areas.

Outcome areas: Communication, Wellbeing and Access & Inclusion.

Hanen: It Takes Two To Talk

It Takes Two to Talk is part of a suite of programs developed by the Hanen Centre to promote children's language and literacy development. It is designed to teach both parents and educators practical strategies to help their children learn language through natural interactions. It is mainly aimed at children with language delay and/or autism spectrum disorder.

Outcome area: Communication.

Learn to Play Program
Learn to Play is an interactive program that aims to develop imaginative play in children.
Self-initiated play is viewed as a way for children to explore the world and learn about themselves. The assumption is that pretend play will help to improve multiple areas of child development, including language, self-regulation, social interactions and problem-solving.

Outcome areas: Communication and Wellbeing.

Parent-Child Mother Goose Australia

Parent-Child Mother Goose (P-CMG) is a weekly group program that aims to strengthen attachment and interaction between parents or carers and their young children (typically 0 - 4 years old) by introducing them to the pleasure and power of sharing rhymes, songs and stories together. The program is run by two trained facilitators. There is no cost to families who attend the program.

Outcome areas: Communication, Wellbeing and Access & Inclusion.