In-Education Service

As an educator, do you need support in your educational environment?

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. It offers all the benefits of Allied Health staff without the HR headaches of employing them.

Kid Sense has been working with children 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 up the carers around the child/young adult for success. With this view in mind, Kid Sense offers the In-Education Service to educational settings wanting to engage with Allied Health on a budget that works for them and that helps the educators directly, rather than it simply being individual child-focused.

Do you need more knowledge about how to help your students?

Educators: We bring you the 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 you an in-house Allied Health team in the amount that you want, with none of the employment hassles. Service engagement can be negotiated each term.

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).

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

How can you use an in-house Allied Health team?

The best part is the educational setting makes that choice, but it may include any or all of the following:

Professional development workshops or small group learning for educators and/or parents
Developing supportive resources and recommendations for individual students, educators or classrooms
Attending challenging parent/teacher meetings where developmental concerns are being raised/discussed
Contributing to independent education plans and curriculum modification from a therapy support perspective
Direct one on one treatment to the child/young adult (*this this can be funded by the NDIS funded individual)
Contributing to policy settings
Internal behaviour management procedures.

What can you 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 workshops to the team to provide value add training for the team and/or parents, as well as highlighting areas of support required or desired.
Optional Developmental Screenings to assess individuals age based skills across a range of learning and developmental areas
Negotiating the preferred time and day of the on-site service delivery.

What does the engagement process look like?

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

The requested team then begin providing services in the manner requested by the educational setting.
Termly Review (if the educational setting so chooses) of the disciplines provided (e.g. Speech and OT) which can vary according to the need or preference, along with the method and timing of intervention each term.
Additional educational and/or parent focused presentations and interactive workshops.