Our Curriculum

Your child's curriculum is individually tailored according to several factors including:

• your child's current skill level
• your child's degree of delay in each major developmental area
• the specific goals identified in consultation with parents/ carers during the assessment process
• number of treatment hours to be provided

 Our curriculum addresses the following core, developmental areas:

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

This curriculum area emphasizes increasing your child’s ability to understand language concepts (receptive language) and convey his/her needs, wants, thoughts and feelings in a manner that is easily understood by others (expressive communication).

Examples of teaching targets include:

• stimulating vocalising where it is limited or non existent
• following multiple step instructions
• spontaneous requests and comments
• articulation
• conversation skills

SELF CARE SKILLS

Your child’s ability to manage his/her own personal and daily living needs is addressed within this curriculum area. The purpose is to increase your child’s functional independence and adaptability.

Examples of our teaching targets include:

• toileting
• dressing
• feeding

PLAY SKILLS

This curriculum area covers crucial development of appropriate play skills for the purposes of increasing your child’s ability to learn new skills incidentally and directly from the natural setting as do other children.

Examples of our teaching targets include:

• imitation
• developing an interest in play
• teaching specific toy play
• collaborative and rule- based games
• play that stimulates imagination, flexibility and creativity

MOTOR SKILLS

Within this area, our focus is on developing your child’s ability to move his/her body in a manner that is coordinated and functional for participating in daily activities.

Examples of our teaching targets include:

• gross motor skills such as running, jumping and climbing
• fine motor skills such as, colouring, cutting with scissors and opening a lunchbox
• oral motor skills such as blowing, tongue and lip movement

SOCIAL SKILLS

This curriculum area aims to improve your child’s interpersonal skills that will allow him or her to develop meaningful relationships with others and navigate the complexities of social interactions.

Examples of our teaching targets include:

• sharing and turn taking
• eye contact
• understanding and responding to others body language
• perspective taking
• discriminating between intentional and accidental behaviour of others

THINKING SKILLS

This area is devoted to teaching your child a range of strategies that will assist him or her to make well informed decisions, in particular, the ability to process information before acting on it. 

Examples of our teaching targets include:

• inhibition
• planning
• working memory
• self regulation
• anxiety management

SCHOOL READINESS SKILLS

 Whilst the entire curriculum emphasies the development of skills that will support your child’s inclusion in the least restricted school setting possible, it may be necessary to teach school specific skills that will assist with the transition into the classroom environment.

Examples of our teaching targets include:

• following group based instruction
• show and tell
• raising his/her hand to ask/ answer questions
• participating in circle/ mat time
• following a schedule/routine
• independent task completion

MANAGING CHALLENGING BEHAVIOURS

Effectively managing challenging behaviour is as essential as teaching new skills to improving your child’s capacity to learn. This component of our curriculum addresses the issues that interfere with that learning. A specific plan is designed for managing each problematic behaviour. This plan is comprised of preventative and reactive strategies, with an emphasis on replacing challenging behaviours by teaching skills that promote more appropriate alternatives.

Examples of our teaching targets include:

• teaching alternative strategies for communicating needs
• development and rehearsal of coping skills
• building behavioural resiliency