The Connected Child Project
Relationship-Based Support For Early Learning Centres & Community Kindys
WHAT IS THE CONNECTED CHILD PROJECT?
Wondering how to use your Uplift funding in a way that creates lasting change?
The Connected Child Project helps early learning centres and community kindys build calmer, more connected environments where children, educators and families feel supported.
It’s designed to deliver long-term, centre-wide capability – not short-term behaviour fixes. Through close collaboration between educators, Speechcare speech pathologists, AHAs and Speechcare teachers, the program builds a shared, evidence-based approach to supporting communication, regulation and learning across everyday environments.
The focus is on creating sustainable, practical strategies that can be embedded across classrooms, centres and home environments, leading to a calmer and more confident workforce, stronger family relationships, lower staff turnover, and improved participation and wellbeing for all children through positive systems change.
IS YOUR CENTRE STRUGGLING TO MANAGE BEHAVIOURS?
Many centres are seeing increasing challenges with:
Dysregulation and big behaviours
Communication differences
Staff burnout and overwhelm
Difficult conversations with families
Children struggling to fit in and engage
The Connected Child is designed to support and work alongside you to show you why behaviours happen, what children may be communicating through their actions, and how small changes to communication, routines, sensory supports and environments can make a big difference.
We provide you with collaborative, relationship-based support that help educators feel more confident while creating inclusive and responsive learning environments for children.
SUPPORT THAT FITS INTO EVERYDAY LEARNING
Supporting emotional regulation, behaviour and communication
Recognising children who may need additional support
Embedding practical strategies into everyday routines
Building inclusive environments that support all children
READY TO CREATE LASTING CHANGE?
More confident educators who feel supported
Calmer classrooms and learning environments
Better emotional regulation support for children
Stronger communication between educators and families
Earlier recognition of children needing additional support
More inclusive and responsive classroom practices
Consistent strategies embedded into everyday routines
Sustainable systems that continue long after intervention ends
THE CONNECTED CHILD PILOT PROGRAM:
Speechcare is proud to be rolling out a pilot of The Connected Child Project across Sesame Lane Kindy & Daycare, Brisbane Adventist College and Shailer Road Community Kindergarten.
Sesame Lane Daycare
Shailer Rd Community Kindy
Brisbane Adventist College
Is Your Daycare Next?
Whether you’re a long day care centre, kindergarten or community kindy, The Connected Child Project helps your team create practical, sustainable supports that work within everyday routines.
Register your interest to learn how your centre can use existing funding pathways – including Uplift funding and emerging community-based supports – to create lasting change for children, educators and families.
TIERED SUPPORTS:
Tier 1
Whole Class Supports:
Speechcare Speech Pathologists work alongside educators to build inclusive classroom strategies that support communication, regulation and participation for all children. This includes coaching, modelling and practical tools that fit naturally into everyday routines.
Tier 2
Small Group Supports:
Children needing extra support are supported in small groups with tailored strategies that help them access learning and feel more confident in the classroom. Educators receive hands-on coaching from Speechcare therapists to adapt supports to individual needs.
Tier 3
In-Class Speech Therapy Supports:
Children with identified learning or communication challenges receive individual speech therapy support within the classroom environment. Strategies and goals are personalised to help each child participate more successfully in everyday learning.
Tier 4
Intensive 1:1 Supports & Coaching:
For children with more complex needs, Speechcare provide intensive individualised therapy and coaching across school, home and clinic settings. Educators and families work together with the allied health team to create consistent, meaningful support around the child.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR:
Education Centres
Build a more inclusive, confident and consistent team approach across the whole centre. The program supports long-term systems change that improves staff wellbeing, family relationships and outcomes for children.
Teachers & Educators
Feel more confident understanding behaviour, supporting regulation and talking with families about concerns. Educators gain practical strategies that fit naturally into everyday routines – without adding more overwhelm.
Parents
Gain a clearer understanding of what their child experiences throughout the day and feel more connected to the support team around them. Families and educators work together using shared language and consistent strategies.
Children
Children feel more understood, supported and included in their everyday environments. With responsive supports in place, they can communicate, regulate and participate with greater confidence.
CORE PRINCIPALS:
Whole-Class First
Supports are embedded for everyone, not only children with identified needs.
Affirming & Strengths Based
Children are supported as capable communicators.
Access Before Expectation
We increase communication access before asking children to “perform”.
Model, Don’t Test
Educators model language, AAC, signs and visuals naturally.
Repeatable Across Routines
The same supports are used consistently throughout the day.
Educator Friendly
Strategies are practical, visible and easy to embed.
Responsive & Reflective
The environment is reviewed, refined and adapted over time.
Repeatable Cycle
Observe → Enrich → Model → Embed → Reflect → Refine
REGISTER INTEREST
Speechcare Locations: Bayside | Carina | Daisy Hill | Mobile – Bald Hills & Surrounds | 07 3395 4400