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Early Childhood Intervention and how to get the best out of your NDIS package - for families of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers with Down syndrome.

Speakers: Amanda Clifford and Kerry Dominish



Amanda Clifford

Occupational Therapist, Practice Lead, EarlyEd

Qualifications:
Bachelor Applied Science (Occupational Therapy)

Infant Mental Health

Experience:
Amanda has over 25 years of experience in neonatal and paediatric occupational therapy, and early childhood intervention. Amanda has worked in both public and private sectors in Australia and the UK, delivering high-quality care and outcomes for infants and families. Amanda specialises in nurturing parent-infant mental health through facilitating effective co-occupation and engagement.
Kerry Dominish - Speech Pathology, CEO EarlyEd
Qualifications: Kerry Dominish has extensive experience in early childhood intervention and speech pathology across a wide range of health, early childhood intervention and children’s service sectors as well as in management and training. In her current role, as Chief Executive Officer of EarlyEd (Early Education Inc) Kerry’s focus is on capacity building early childhood intervention professionals and ensuring children and their parents/carers are at the centre of all supports. At the same time, she promotes the meaningful inclusion of all children in early childhood education, their schools and community. Kerry has a long history of being an active advocate in the early childhood intervention sector to government and community, supporting efforts to provide equity of access to quality services based on evidence-based practices early in a child’s life.
Kerry is on the Board of PRECI (Professionals and Researchers in Early Childhood Intervention), is the NSW representative for Toy Libraries Australia and a founding member of the Best Practice in Early Childhood Intervention Network.
This workshop will be a time for you to reflect on what you want your child’s early childhood intervention to achieve as well as what you want next for your child and your family. We will start by providing you with up-to-date evidence about how early childhood intervention makes a difference in a child and families’ life. Parent and carers have many decisions to make and many options to choose from. Even the latest NDIS Independent Review says that families find it challenging to know where to go to find out what is available, and then what to choose. We will provide you with strategies to help you do this so you know:

1. what is recognised as best practice in early childhood intervention
2. key recommendations from the different disciplines that provide early childhood intervention
3. what we have learnt about from the NDIS Review that children and families need
4. what families tell us about their experiences

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We champion the rights of people with Down syndrome to be valued and to take their rightful place in the community.