TEAM AROUND YOUR CHILD
After supporting children with disability for 45+ years, we know what is required for your child to achieve outcomes and reach their potential.
Our Key Worker/Lead Practitioners and Therapists provide therapy provision supports to teach you and your child the specific everyday skills to make the days easier and more enjoyable. These skills will fit into your daily routine and assist you 24 hours a day.
Our therapies, programs and services are consistent with early childhood intervention, education and inclusion best practice. We utilise interaction through play and daily routines, to promote growth and development in children which create a foundation for everyday life – home, school and beyond.
We work closely with you as a team that supports and surrounds your child. Communicating and sharing information, knowledge and skills with you, your child and other therapists and team members. Working in your child’s environments, these may include your family home, child care, preschools or community areas.
WHAT IS (ECI) EARLY
CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION
ECI is when infants and young children with a disability and/or a developmental delay and their families receive specialised support and services. These supports and services positively impact the child’s development and well-being, so that they can participate in family and community life. The intention of ECI, is to ensure parents and other important adults in the child’s life, provide them with the correct experiences and opportunities to help them gain the skills needed for their life.
WHY IS ECI
IMPORTANT
1. Brain development in children happens at an astonishing rate. Children’s ability to learn and develop is at its greatest in their early childhood years and forms the foundation for their future learning and development.
2. Families know their child best and are the people who can make the biggest impact on their development. The ECI team shares knowledge, information and skills with the family so they can support their child at all times.
3. Quality ECI programs especially those delivered where the child lives learns and plays can help children develop, learn and participate in everyday activities. ECI can potentially reduce the amount of support the child will need later in life.
4. ECI is critical for the whole family! It helps families learn how to support and nurture their child, meet their needs and adapt to what their child requires.
ECI WORKING
WITH THERAPY
ECI is an all-inclusive approach towards working with children. Focusing on their social and life skill development to help them connect with you, family members, peers and their community. ECI acts as an extension to clinical based allied health therapy, whilst incorporating those skills into the child’s everyday life and assisting you to do the same. All of Shaping Outcomes programs and services are designed to work with, compliment and add to the learnings your child will be receiving through any external therapist.