Services

How we can help

Your child is unique. We get to know their strengths, interests and support needs and provide you with the knowledge, tools and help so that they shine and twinkle in early childhood years (and beyond).

We provide tailored, mobile services in your home or early childcare location where your child feels most comfortable. Coming to you means we take away some of the worry and stress your family might feel about transitioning your child to new experiences and locations. We work with an allied team of specialists, bringing our play-based therapy sessions to where your family is most comfortable.

Services

Stellar Child Development works with an allied health team of specialists offering families:

Early childhood intervention

Early Intervention Services helps with the  early detection and effective treatment of young children with any developmental disability such as Autism, ADHD, ASD, Down Syndrome and Anxiety Disorders.

Early Childhood Key Worker
Specialising in the early years 0 – 6 years. Working with a Key Worker to support your child,  is the preferred NDIS model for children under the age of 6.

These can be offered through two streams:

  • 1:1 play-based session with child, in family home, kindergarten or day care.
  • Parent training

Key Workers are:

  • skilled across all areas of child development, and can refer you to more specialised services
  • can identify possible delays and promote milestone achievements
  • support a family as one consistent contact person rather than juggling a range of different services
  • advocate with education and care providers as a specialist in the Early Childhood years
  • supported by research showing the Key Worker Model achieving the highest level of satisfaction by families

Occupational Therapy

Our allied Occupational Therapists help your child take part on daily activities, supporting them with

  • Emotional self-regulation and sensory processing
  • Social skills like playing with others and making friends
  • Self-care skills like toileting, dressing and eating
  • Gross and fine motor skills like holding and throwing, sitting, walking, crawling

Speech and Language Therapy

Our allied Speech Pathologists will work alongside your child to develop speech and language skills to build their communication confidence and social connection.

  • Developing tailored strategies for delayed speech and language development
  • Language and literacy skills for improved communication
  • Speaking with clear and correct pronunciation
  • Being understood by others and self-advocating needs
  • Overcoming and allowing for speech difficulties such as stuttering and articulation challenges

Nutrition

We encourage healthy eating patterns with activities, solutions and strategies to make meal-times less stressful. We specialise in:

  • Fussy eaters
  • Food refusal
  • General nutritional concerns and deficiencies

NDIS Support

We offer approved services that are NDIS funded. We know that NDIS support doesn’t always fit into one-size-fits all tick the box approaches. We can work with you to identify the best NDIS programs that meet your child’s requirements and walk you through the NDIS process so that you feel confident of your direction and the necessary processes.

  • Personalised consultation and planning to understand your child’s likes, dislikes, interests, strengths and development challenges
  • Planning strategy for your child’s unique development goals to align to NDIS goals
  • Guidance on navigating the NDIS system in turn with your child’s needs
  • Building your confidence and knowledge to help you better advocate for decisions on behalf of your child
  • Individual report writing for NDIS
  • Liaise with support coordinator and link to other services

Resources

With a background in teaching and  coaching, we understand that trusted early-childhood educators are part of any family’s support team. We know that early educators have a child’s early learning success and best interests at heart. We offer personalised resources and coaching tools to support early educators, building their professional development when working with neurodivergent children.

  • Play-based learning
  • Emotional regulation in the early years
  • Embedding social skills and emotional regulation into play-based learning
  • Online and printed resources covering new approaches and strategies for specific children or addressing specific behaviours
  • One-on-one and team coaching sessions for kindergarten and early childcare
  • Professional development days
  • New in 2024: Picture books with health, and wellbeing themes, featuring a range of learning goals for children and a parent resource ‘Encouraging children to eat healthy food’, written by Linda Ribgy

Our specialist evidence-based programs empower your family

Choose from our  respected and tailored unique ten-week block of sessions with a Key Worker, Speech Pathologist and Physiotherapist providing a neuroaffirming play-based learning approach.

We help families with strategies to:

  • Nurture your baby and toddler’s early years physical and language development
  • Help toddlers and pre-schoolers feel understood, loved and safe
  • Encourage your child’s communication skills and confidence
  • Establish boundaries and self-regulation milestones that your child can understand
  • Foster bonding and attachment for positive parenting relationships
  • Strengthen your child’s social and emotional development
  • Help with settling, soothing, nutrition and responsiveness to development milestones
  • Overly shy/clingy children and coregulation
  • Understanding anxiety, how it presents in childhood and how to manage it
  • Focus on the value of developmental play and play skills
  • Social skill development
  • Nutrition and strategies for healthy eating and healthy attitude to food
  • Sleep – how much your child should be getting and info on how to
  • Motor skills
  • Language and communication
  • Setting limits and boundaries
  • Behavioural supports with a focus on tantrums and meltdowns, co-regulation of emotions, the value of routines
  • Communicating with young children, understanding communication and when children can listen, modelling good communication, singing and talking and providing simple choices
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