Aspire - helping childern reach their potential

Clinical Supervision | Therapy | Home schooling services | Practical Workshops | Our Program | Our Kids

Clinical Supervision

Clinical supervision entails everything from setting up your child’s initial program and providing you with a detailed program folder to assisting you with individual education plans or school observations. To ensure consistency in your child’s program we will visit you once or twice a month where we demonstrate behavioural and educational interventions. We provide ongoing parent and therapist training regarding effective techniques for managing behaviours and developing new skills. Consultation also includes writing of reports regarding progress and/or goal proposals. The frequency of consultation depends on a mutually agreed upon number of hours and the availability of a program manager.

Therapy

At Aspire you have the option to recruit independent therapists that we will train or we can recruit and train therapists for you.

We always recommend your assigned program manager work one on with your child, as we want to be familiar with your child’s learning style. Our program managers can do this during or prior to team meetings or regular one on one sessions in between team meeting depending on their availability.

We currently employ senior therapists who will assist you with implementation of your child’s daily program. Please contact us for more information.

Home schooling services

Some parents feel that there is currently not a school in the public or private system that caters to their child’s individual needs at that particular moment in time. If you feel your child does not benefit from a structured school setting or if you think that home schooling may a better alternative for the time being, Aspire we can assist you by providing a comprehensive home schooling program that includes academic learning as well as continued language development and specific social skills. Depending on your and your child’s needs, we can provide you with therapists who assist you with some of the teaching and the majority of the time you can spend educating your child as you see fit.

We assist you with the initial approval from the Board of Studies and help you get in touch with other families who provide a home schooling program for their child. We also assist you with finding the right teaching materials you need to educate your child.

If your goal is to have your child enter or return in the education system, Aspire will provide a program that specifically targets the skill set needed to succeed in a structured educational setting.

Practical Workshops

Aspire provides practical workshops or in-services for schools, pre-schools, parent groups, or government agencies. These workshops can be tailored specifically for any topic or can be chosen from a set number of topics;

• Introductory workshop “What is Autism?”
• Introductory workshop “What is ABA?”
• Introductory workshop “What is Verbal Behaviour?”
• Behaviour Management
• Discrete Trial Training
• Natural Environment Training
• Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
• How to teach children with autism to play
• Intermediate workshop “Verbal Behaviour“
• Intermediate workshop “Contemporary ABA techniques”

If you are interested in any of the workshops listed above or you would like Aspire to present a workshop specifically on a given topic please contact us

Our Program

We provide a highly individualised program for each child in our program. After we conduct an initial assessment and depending on your family’s and your child’s needs we recommend a certain number of hours of intensive therapy. Our program includes contemporary ABA techniques such as VB and NET. At Aspire we employ best practices to improve outcome;

• Treatment is initiated early
• Treatment is intensive and geared towards your child and your family’s needs
• Parents are an integral component of the treatment team
• Generalisation begins immediately
• Treatment occurs in the child’s natural environment
• A heavy emphasis is placed on play and learning in a play based environment.
• Custom programs are designed to address each individual child’s needs and to provide a comprehensive approach in all areas of development.

• Learning to learn
• Communication and Language Acquisition
• Engagement and Social skills
• Play skills, Toy play to Imaginary play
• Motor and Self help Skills
• Executive Functioning Skills, Planning and Flexible Thinking
• Theory of Mind Skills
• Academic Achievement

Our kids

Aspire provides services for children from the ages of twelve months to ten years of age.

A diagnosis is not necessary to receive services. If you are concerned regarding the development of your child and you feel your child would benefit from a comprehensive approach that targets all developmental areas, Aspire can provide a program for you. Children with the following diagnoses may benefit specifically from our services;

• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Asperger's Disorder
• Global Developmental Delay
• Language and Communication Difficulties
• Social Delays
• ADHD/ADD
• Down’s Syndrome
• Williams Syndrome
• Nonverbal Learning Disorder
• Semantic Pragmatic Disorder
• Specific Language Impairment
• Other related difficulties

Aspire can help you and your child by offering services that will benefit your whole family. Contact us for an initial assessment at your home to see whether our services suit your needs and we can provide a program for your child.

We provide services in the Sydney metropolitan area, rural New South Wales, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.