ECI Toowoomba
Younger children or babies may suffer from developmental delays or disabilities, making it challenging for parents to give them the best care. Although parents want to provide the best for their child, it is vital to seek help from healthcare professionals at an early age to improve and manage their child's developmental delay or disability as this reduces the need for long-term intervention and promotes independence. Thus, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) offers the Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) to the citizens and residents of Toowoomba for parents with children with developmental delays or disabilities and worrying about their developmental condition.
The ECI program is available at Positive Moods, an Early Childhood Partner that can assist children 0-6 years old with developmental delay or disability. With the ECI, families, and carers will receive assistance in determining the needs of their children and help them avail beneficial support to live their best life and develop up to their maximum capacity. The citizens and residents of Toowoomba are encouraged to avail of the ECI program at Positive, a registered NDIS service provider. Positive Moods can help them request and access long-term NDIS support ideal for children with permanent disabilities. In addition, Positive Moods will work together with families and carers, ensuring children with developmental delays or disabilities can access efficient support from their local community and the NDIS.
Understanding Early Childhood Early Intervention
NDIS designed the Early Childhood Intervention or ECI to help young children ages 0-6 years old suffering from developmental delay or disability by assisting their families and carers. It includes varying support that matches the needs and conditions of each child. Additionally, healthcare professionals of Positive Moods understand that parents know the best for their children. So ECI uses a family-centred approach, allowing the child's parents and carers to participate throughout the program. Through the help of intervention specialists, families will learn and understand the best and most effective strategies beneficial for their child, which they can implement in performing daily routines and activities at home and in the community.
Under ECI, children 0-6 years old who don't have a developmental delay but display developmental concerns can also avail the Early Childhood Approach (ECA). This program uses evidence-based research, strength-based, and the Best Practise Guidelines for Early Childhood Intervention to help develop children’s maximum capacity. Also, it will provide families and carers assistance in accessing community support to have more opportunities for growing and learning. In short, ECI ensures that families with children suffering from developmental delays, disabilities, or displaying developmental concerns can access the best support required to start their life.
Administering ECI
The early stage of children's life is crucial in learning and developing since it is the preparation phase for adulthood. So the ECI program is necessary for children to determine their developmental condition and seek the best support and implement effective strategies to prepare them for the future. Parents and carers, Positive Moods is your first point of contact if your child has developmental delays, disability, or exhibits developmental concern. By availing ECI from Positive Moods, families will receive support to determine the needs of their children and help access beneficial support that can encourage participation in daily activities, resulting in a better life. Moreover, Positive Moods will assist families by connecting them to the local community where they can access beneficial services, including daycare centres, playgroups, and related programs for the health and development of children.
Under the program, families with children suffering from disabilities, developmental delays, or developmental concerns will receive assistance to request a long-term NDIS support plan by providing the ECI or ECA. Since it is vital to assist children as early as possible, families and carers will work with highly-trained developmental specialists, experts in early education, allied health, or family support. They will assist in helping them understand their child's developmental condition and areas in their life that needs support. Eventually, the parents and carers will work with the developmental specialists to finalise the best support services for their children. Also, the program implements the Best Practise Guidelines for Early Childhood Intervention, ensuring that children will receive the best support and strategies to improve and manage their developmental delays or disabilities.
Benefits of ECI
Now that NDIS offers the ECI program, families and carers will have the opportunity to work with developmental specialists to determine if children 0-6 years old have developmental conditions and manage developmental delays, disabilities, and developmental concerns. Aside from that, ECI and ECA plans can assist your children, families, and carers in varying ways, including:
Assist at an early stage and ensure access to beneficial supports
Provide support in any setting, including home, daycare, playgroups, sports, and community activities
Provide parents and carers with essential information for Early Childhood Intervention that they can implement with their children
Guide families and carers in developing and applying new skills
Provide varying types of support and services to families and children that is line with their needs and condition
Provide information on beneficial support services such as playgroups or parent support groups
Improve parent's and carer's capacity and confidence to handle and respond to their child's required support
Improve children's ability to perform daily tasks they need or like
Improve the involvement and engagement of children with the mainstream community environment, such as daycare or recreation
Additionally, Positive Moods will work with the community to determine the most beneficial and sufficient intervention for children. The program will also provide the latest universal services available in the community and serve as a path for children with permanent disabilities, making it easier to request and acquire a long-term support plan from the NDIS.
Accessing ECI
Citizens and residents of Toowoomba can access ECI with Positive Moods, and Early Childhood Partner. Potential clients would need to book a meeting with Positive Moods to understand their child's needs and developmental condition, then a developmental specialist will finalise the ECI or ECA plan for the children. On the contrary, families, and carers should provide evidence that proves that the child has a disability, developmental delay, or developmental concern, increasing their chance of accessing the support plan, including:
Collecting any evidence showing why the child requires assistance. It can be letters that the child wrote to people close to them or a formal letter from healthcare professionals. Though it is not necessary to present a diagnosis, families, and carers should provide an overview of the child’s life to their Early Childhood Partner and why ECI is needed.
Determining the goal for the child availing of the ECI program. The program is beneficial not only for the child but also for the family members and caregivers.
For more details on the ECI program, citizens and residents of Toowoomba who are concerned if their child 0-6 years old has a developmental delay or disability may call Positive Moods on 1300 001 470 email at ndis@positivemoods.com.au or fill out the contact form on https://www.positivemoods.com.au/contactus.