Kid Sense Speech Pathologists deliver high-impact, evidence?informed group programs, educator coaching, family workshops and leadership mentoring directly in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Every package is tailored to a centre’s priorities and designed to enhance developmental skills in language, listening, talking, broader communication, play, and learning (cognitive) skills.

Our service components: Educator training workshops individual and small?group educator coaching as well as in-class modelling group?based child programs (emotional regulation, motor skills, school and life readiness) parent and family workshops and leadership and mentoring support. Across all components we prioritise practical strategies that build educator and family confidence in supporting and extending social interaction and communication, language, listening and talking, play and cognitive (learning) skills.

Developmental vulnerabilities nurtured by our experienced therapists include:

• Language (listening, following instructions, talking clearly)
• Communication (including noticing and reading gestures/cues, pointing asking for help)
• Literacy foundations (eg sound awareness) and literacy
• Play as a language and communication prompt for social interaction and learning
• Learning from the environment using language and play

Infuse therapeutic fun into centre resources and programming for long term benefit by:

• Measurable improvements in language, communication and learning
• Increased educator confidence to identify and respond to needs - shift practice from “behaviour labelling” to support
• Stronger home–centre alignment through family workshops to reinforce classroom strategies and confidence
• Leadership curriculum programming inclusions
• Resource Collation enabling centres to sustain gains after services

Kid Sense Speech Pathologists deliver flexible, need-driven supports that pivot to suit each centre’s context and priorities for the student, educator and family cohort:

• Group sessions: child small-group therapy delivered in-class or in a shared pre-school space, using engaging play to prompt language, communication, interaction, attention and learning about the world (including pre-literacy and numeracy skills)
• Educator coaching: in-class coaching delivered to student groups to model strategies, adapt routines and embed Speech Pathology approaches across daily activities. Collaborative lecture style training is likely part of this upskilling also.
• Leadership mentoring: to support curriculum content enhanced with ‘infused therapeutic fun’ through programs and/or and resource collation, environmental space modification and group creations by language and communication abilities.
• Family workshops: group workshops for families sharing developmentally supportive home strategies to encourage language and communication, and highlight the connection between language and the world around the child.
• Peer/group activity planning: teacher-ready group activity packs and visuals to support inclusive group routines and scaffold peer-assisted learning (eg books and activities to prompt language, games to prompt interaction) to take learning into the real world (and thus minimising reliance on therapy intervention).

All services are delivered at an average of $226.96 per hour. Costs and Services are customised to suit each site's goals and budget, combining educator workshops, group child programs, family workshops, and leadership and mentoring support. Please visit us at: https://childdevelopment.com.au/educator/preschool-boost-flying-start-program/