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In-Education Service

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educator focused support in your educational environment? We've Got you!

Kid Sense In-Education Service brings an in-house Allied Health service to you on the days you want, for the period you want, as often as you want, focused on what you want – YOU! It offers all the benefits of Allied Health staff without the HR headache of employing them.

Kid Sense has been working with children, adolescents and young adults for decades and recognises that while the children/young adults are the focus, the only way to support them is to set the carers around the child/young adult up for success. With this in mind, Kid Sense offers the educator (rather than student focused) In-Education Service to educational settings wanting Allied Health on a budget that works for them and that helps the educators directly (Tier 3 supports), rather than it simply being individual child-focused (Tier 1 supports).

We help all Educational Setting Stakeholders.

Educators: We bring you the ‘you focused’ support that you want, in the way that you want it and when you want it, delivered by a consistent therapist/s. 

Administrators: We bring to you an in-house Allied Health team in the amount that you want, without the hassles of employment. Service engagement can be negotiated each term.

Students: benefit from informed & supported educators (& educator assistants) with individualized care on tap to inform class wide, parent, and/or individual student targeted strategies. 

The Greatest Benefit of the In-Education Service? It offers a single point of contact for therapy services to all students and educators on site (with an educator focus), to replace the rotating door of multiple therapists consulting multiple individual students (funded and servicing the child/parent rather than the therapist or educational team). 

wish you had allied health therapists on your team but can’t afford them?

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How to use an in-house Allied Health team?

YOU as the educational setting makes that choice, but it may include any or all of the following:

  • Professional development presentations, interactive workshops or small group learning for educators and/or parents (Tier 3 supports)
  • Developing supportive resources and recommendations for individual students, educators or classrooms (Tier 2 supports)
  • Attending challenging parent/educator meetings where developmental concerns are being discussed
  • Contributing to independent education plans and curriculum modification from a therapy support perspective
  • Direct 1:1 treatment to the student (Tier 1 supports). *This can also be funded by the individual student(eg under NDIS)  
  • Contributing to policy settings or environmental recommendations 
  • Internal behaviour management procedures.
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What to expect when engaging the In-Education service?

The journey begins with:

  • Clarifying the educational settings Allied Health needs through a structured Needs Assessment discussion with leadership educators and/or Decision Makers.
  • Followed by professional development presentations to provide value add training for the educators and/or parents, as well as highlighting areas of support required or possible.
  • Optional Developmental Screenings to assess individuals students age based skills across a range of learning and developmental areas
  • Determining the preferred time and day of the on-site service delivery.
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What does the engagement process look like?

Having established the educational settings needs, benefits and preferred service focus that the Allied Health team can bring:

  • The requested therapists then begin providing services in the manner requested by the educational setting.
  • Termly Review (if the educational setting so chooses) of the therapy provided (e.g. Speech and OT) which can vary according to the need or preference, as well as the method and timing of intervention each term.
  • Optional additional educator and/or parent focused presentations and interactive workshops. 
  • Optional additional student focused (and student funding) 1:1 therapy. 

Contact our experienced therapists to discuss our Educator Focused supports.