Comprehensive Intervention For Every Little Learner

Quality Childcare & Behavioural Intervention

Little Learners is a centre-based  intervention program for children with autism.  It provides children with early, intensive, behavioural intervention (EIBI) - the most effective & evidence based educational approach for children with autism.

THE
MODEL

EARLY, INTENSIVE, BEHAVIOURAL INTERVENTION

• 20 hrs/week of one-to-one therapy, using effective teaching techniques
• Highly trained therapy staff
• Expert consultation including program development & parent training
• Opportunities to integrate into kinder setting with typical peers

 QUALITY CHILDCARE

• Long daycare with expert staff
• Ratio of 1:4 in childcare components of the day
• Childcare staff trained in intervention techniques

Set in a typical childcare centre in Maidstone, this autism specific pre-school program is run in a bright, spacious room with an enormous outdoor play area. The "Little Learners" room will has 8 children with autism, aged between 2 to 6 years old. Children can spend time in other rooms with typical peers, when ready to work on social skills with typical peers.
The Little Learners room runs from Monday to Thursday, every week of the year. Childcare is provided commencing 7.30am and ending 6pm. Behavioural intervention sessions run twice a day, each session being 2.5 hours.

"Little Learners"

Why centre-based behavioural intervention?

By creating a centre-based model, we aim to:

• Provide a total intervention program package in one centre
• Unique opportunities for learning in both structured and naturalistic settings
• Allow both parents the opportunity to work
• Focus on key early learning skills such as engagement, initiation, attending, and ‘learning how to learn’
• Enable the child’s family have support, education, practical advice, and time for respite/siblings 
• Social opportunities interacting with typical children also enrolled in the centre