We walk beside you as a Mornington Peninsula NDIS service, supporting local families navigating diagnosis and management. We’re dedicated to providing high quality support for development of children with disability, neurodivergence and delay.

Stellar Child Development was founded in 2021 by Linda Rigby, for families on the Mornington Peninsula, across Frankston, and Westernport surrounds.

It was Linda’s lived experience supporting a daughter with a disability that was the driving force behind her passion to provide a high level of support with professionalism and empathy. Linda brings incredible insight when considering each and every child’s challenges, so that you never feel like you are alone.

Qualifications and experience

Linda has a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Naturopathy) and over 30 years’ experience supporting all ages with health and wellbeing goals. Wanting to learn more about the earliest developmental years, Linda went on to complete a Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) with an interest in disabilities, neurodiversity and delay.

Linda has a passion for continuing to learn, regularly partaking in workshops about brain development, learning, delays, autism, neurodiversity, and anxiety. And works hard to develop a variety of resources suitable for children in the early childhood and primary school years.

Linda knows that navigating the NDIS system can be a daunting process for many families, and even quite overwhelming and isolating at times. Linda understands these aspects of the journey, walking beside you towards your NDIS support needs and goals.

Stellar Child Development supports families by:

• tailoring a program to suit you and your child.
• providing helpful resources and ideas you can readily use throughout your day.
• helping you feel confident managing behaviours and big feelings.
• being a trusted and regular check-in expert to discuss your concerns.
• reducing your stress by starting with the simplest ideas first (sometimes it just takes a few small changes to see results).

We see and support your family.

When spending time with your child, Stellar Child Development’s therapies are embedded into play with warmth, care, and humour. As far as your child is concerned, it’s all just good fun. but for us it’s work that makes a difference for you.

Our play-based learning sessions can involve hands in the play dough, cooking, playing with cars and trucks, stacking blocks, playing blower soccer, reading a story or getting active as we learn some moves that support feeling good about ourselves.

No more intimidating clinics, we come to you.

We can fit around your busy life, and either come to your home or the child’s educational setting. If it helps, there is also option of the clinic setting in Somerville for parental information sessions.

If you need additional support outside our field of expertise, we have access to highly knowledgeable specialists supports and can link you in with other servi