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We offer over 150 different activities within 14 subject groups. With so much to choose from, every session is a new discovery. To access our detailed program list please email us to receive a full information pack.
Academic Intervention Support Programme: This programme is suitable for those who attend a mainstream school and require extra assitance due to their intellectual diganosis. Session times run within 1 – 2 hour blocks, during weekdays after school. Designed to focus on enhancing literacy and numeracy abilities, we deliver table-top support as an extension of the schooling environment, where support workers can help with both school issued homework and roll out individualised learning programmes. Unfortunately, this academic programme currently has an extensive wait list. Our other after school programmes do have shorter wait times, which aim to help clients with higher levels of intellectual disabilities and ASD develop regulation skills, manage high sensory needs, and create safe community integration whilst limiting behaviours of concern.
Techniques
– Visit our Techniques page for futher information on our approach
Alternative Communication – Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, Proloquo2go, Auslan, PECS visuals, keyboard
Positive behaviour support – We identify triggers and understand the reasons behind why an individual is expressing challenging behaviours. Through observations and liaising with the team around the child, we form an understanding as to why the situation is occurring and develop systematic processes to help mitigate occurrences and reduce anxieties. By applying positive language, redirection, pairing stimuli, and reward systems we can develop systematic processes to aid in achieving effective emotional regulation.
Sensory Diet – Part of our Person Centred Approach is to help maintain an emotional equilibrium among students who have sensory processing delays. Select resources are made available to the student at all times to encourage their self regulation based on sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.
Physical movement and fiddle toys are incorporated into our sessions as a way for the students to release any anxieties within and help promote a feeling of calm. Without access to a sensory diet, challenging behaviours may increase in frequency and intensity. By providing regular brakes, the student has higher levels of engagement, attention, learning and display appropriate behaviour.
Due to the heightened sensory nature of our students with ASD, we have adopted Montessori based techniques within our programs. This incorporates exploratory learning through tactile exposure, opposed to a more traditional rote learning model.
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) is an integral part of our methodology.
This style of learning is focused on genuine enquiry, applied using the creative reasoning process of trail and error to think outside the box. Enhancing these cognitive skills provides a platform to expand into a versatile array of applications.
Key elements of problem solving and spatial reasoning are combined with fun creative practice to maintain interest, relevance and enjoyment. STEAM is an ideal learning platform for all students, particularly those with atypical neurodiversity.
