Our Services

The Hills Learning Centre is a registered NDIS provider. We offer a range of services which can be supported through NDIS funding for eligible participants.

We are a registered provider of the following NDIS categories;
– Assist life stage transitions
– Innovative community participation
– Development life skills
– Early childhood supports

We offer 1:1 individualised intervention, weekly classes and school holiday programs to provide life skills training and support for participants with disabilities.

At The Hills Learning Centre the aim of our assessments is not only to identify the weaknesses present in a child’s learning & development, but to also highlight the strengths. Our formal diagnostic assessment tools are standardised and supported by professional standards. Our informal assessment tools are based on observations of the child’s cognitive behaviours, responses to activities and stimuli presented to them.

After the assessment, parents are ‘walked-through’ each test item through a detailed written report, receiving details of their child’s strengths and developmental gaps that have been identified by the assessments. It is vital that parents are well informed about their child’s developmental profile.

Sessions take the form of either 1:1 or group-based intervention.

Our 1:1 sessions allow for the child to receive clear and explicit instruction to help them build the necessary skills vital to functioning independently throughout their life. An error-free, positive-teaching approach is used.

Focused small group classes of learning are also offered on a weekly basis. Groups run with a minimum of 4 participants, up to a maximum of 8, with our staff to participant ratio at 1:4.

The Hills Learning Centre specialises in assisting young people to build the skills necessary to become active participants in their community. Whether it be at home, at school, in the workplace or in social settings, we have programs that can support participants in building social skills, living skills, communication skills, functional literacy and mathematics skills.

Additionally, our My Place program particularly focuses on building the independent living skills of school-leavers, so that they can become active participants at home, in the workplace and in employment opportunities.

The Hills Learning Centre also has services to meet the needs of younger children, aged 3-4. Our Leap Ahead School Readiness Program provides children who are about to start school, with the vital skills needed to make a successful transition to Kindergarten. Children have great fun learning early literacy and numeracy skills, social skills, fine and gross motor skills among others.

The Hills Learning Centre recognises the need for flexible learning arrangements and therefore offers clients the opportunity  to meet with their teacher in either face-to-face mode or in an online setting through online portals such as Skype or Zoom.

Learning Intervention clinicians utilise proven and effective online applications to deliver online content if clients are unable to physically visit our learning centre.

Each school holiday a variety of short courses are offered through our Holiday Programs. Such programs include intensive reading, social and play skills, mad scientist workshops and life skills, among others.

These courses suit a range of ages and abilities and are not limited to children with special needs.

 

The Hills Learning Centre encourages communication with the child’s school to ensure consistency in learning and for the reinforcement of new skills between the centre, school and home.

The Hills Learning Centre can provide support to families by representing them in collaborative meetings with their child’s school and allied health team. This ensures that strategies are implemented to support our client’s goals.

When we provide support to clients at The Hills Learning Centre, we are also providing support to their families. Parents receive support each week at the end of the intervention session, through feed-back and strategies on how to support their child’s learning at home.

Clinicians are experienced,  knowledgeable and approachable and are happy to answer questions and provide support to families so that children can work towards their goals in a supported environment.

Motivation is the key to good learning as is setting goals and knowing how to achieve them.

At The Hills Learning Centre we are able to provide clients from Year 6- 12, with individual mentoring sessions focussing on goal setting, time management and aimed at assisting them to reach their personal best.