About this event
Description
ACD wants to hear from families raising a child with developmental concerns, delay, or disability aged 0-12, who have participated in early childhood intervention.
This may include working with therapists, such as speech therapists or occupational therapists to help promote your child’s development.
A review of best practice in early childhood intervention is being undertaken by a consortium led by the University of Melbourne and funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services. Hearing from families is an important part of the review.
The review will produce a new best practice framework, resources, and tools. These will help practitioners, professionals, and families ensure children with developmental concerns, delay, or disability have the best possible start in life.
As part of the review, there have already been consultations with families, communities, and early childhood practitioners across Australia, and a best practice framework has been drafted. ACD is holding this session to hear what families think about it.
You can read about the review here: ECI Review | Healthy Trajectories | A Child and Youth Disability Research Hub Healthy Trajectories (healthy-trajectories.com.au)
Session details
It will be a facilitated conversation covering questions such as:
- Do the aims and principles in the draft framework reflect what's important to you?
- What are examples of good practice that helped support your child and family?
- What ideas do you have for communicating best practice to families?
More information
- The consultation runs for 90 minutes. It will be a facilitated conversation with several questions to answer
- Participants must attend the entire session and actively participate to receive a $50 voucher
- Attendees must have an Australian postal address to receive the $50 voucher
- The consultation will be held online using Zoom
- Deidentified information from the consultation will be provided to the University of Melbourne
- Only families raising children with developmental delay and disability can participate
- Priority will be given to families with children aged 0 to 12
- Registration is essential
Questions?
- Email ACD: educate@acd.org.au
- Call ACD on 03 9880 7000 or 1800 654 013 (regional callers)
