Kid Sense Occupational Therapists 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 emotional maturity, physical health and wellbeing, and social competence.

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:

• Understanding of emotion and ability to co- and self-regulate emotions
• Resilience in the face of a challenge
• Independence in daily life activities and following routines
• Fine and gross motor skills
• Social engagement with others in meaningful relationships

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

• Measurable improvements in developmental target areas
• 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 Occupational Therapists deliver flexible, need-driven supports that pivot to suit each centre’s context and priorities for the student, educator and family cohort by:

• Group sessions: child small-group therapy delivered in a shared pre-school space, using engaging play to emotional maturity, physical health & wellbeing, social competence, and attention.
• Educator coaching: in-class coaching delivered to student groups to model strategies, adapt routines and embed Occupational Therapy 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, resource collation, environmental space modification and learning group compilation by developmental abilities.
• Family workshops: group workshops for families sharing developmentally supportive home strategies to encourage emotional maturity, physical health & wellbeing, and social competence.
• Peer/group activity planning: teacher-ready group activity packs and visuals to support inclusive group routines and scaffold peer-assisted learning (eg books and games to promote motor skills, social interaction, regulation) 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/