Intervention Starts at Home

Hills Nepean Intervention Service can offer services to your family in your home. This means you don’t need to travel, and that our professionals can see your child in their ordinary environment. Activities and routines can be set up with your home in mind. Home-based intervention saves you travel-time, waiting time, and gives a more realistic picture of your daily life to our professionals.

Our philosophy is that everything begins at home with the family, with the communication you use in real life, with the activities that you partake in each day. We can offer practical help for the issues that concern you in your everyday lives. Your child learns from you more than anyone else, and we can help you maximise your daily opportunities without having to spend hours in therapy rooms.

Contact us if you’re interested in tailored home-based intervention for your child with autism or other developmental disabilities. Click on the contact us button for more details and start the change today.

How Flexible is Your Child?

No, we’re not talking about gymnastics!

Flexibility is the ability to “roll with the changes”, cope with new things, and adjust to circumstances beyond one’s control. It’s one of the most important “real life” skills, because life isn’t predictable! We all need to problem-solve each day.

Many of our children find unpredictable situations difficult to cope with. They prefer black and white scenarios where they can count on rules, rather than have to figure out a different strategy each time. This can make coping with relationships difficult, as human beings are very unpredictable!

RDI can help, by assisting families to create small challenges in everyday life which help children become more flexible. To find out more, please click on the Contact Us button overhead.

A New Year, a New Start

Happy New Year from everyone at Hills Nepean Intervention Service!

With a new year comes the opportunity for a new start for you and your family. If you’d like to find out more about how Hills Nepean can help your family, please contact us. Click on the “contact us” button for more details.

Interested in finding out more?

An evening seminar will be held in early December for parents interested in finding out more about Relationship Development Intervention.

If you live in the Hills or Nepean area, please email us at info (at) hillsnepean.com.au and the details will be sent to you.

This is a great opportunity to find out about RDI and ask any questions you may have.

Does your child need help?

Hills Nepean Intervention Service aims to help families who have a young child with a developmental disability or delay, or whose child has an autism spectrum disorder.

Occupational therapy, Speech pathology and Relationship Development Intervention are available for families who live in the Hills, Hawkesbury and Nepean areas of Sydney.

Click on “contact us” to find out more information about our services.

Hills Nepean has a new logo

Don’t you love the smiling face of our new logo – which also represents the green of the Hills district and the blue of the Nepean river?

Many thanks to Klara Pecina for her wonderful design.

If you’re in the Hills Nepean area, and you have a young children with autism or a developmental disability, please feel free to contact us. We’d love to hear from you.

Services at Hills Nepean Intervention Service

If you are seeking Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, or Relationship Development Intervention for your preschool-aged child with autism or a developmental disability, please contact us.

As experienced and qualified professionals, we are able to provide support for helping you and your family with real life skills including independence (dressing/toileting), communication, play, and relating to others, including behaviour in the family.

Please click on “contact us” for more information.

Early Childhood Intervention

As parents, we intervene all the time. When the baby is about to crawl off the couch, or pull down the vase from the table; when the toddler is pulling the cat’s tail; when the thoughtless five year old is about to step out onto the road without looking. We jump, make a move, stop the action.

Once our children head to school, we continue to intervene. If we see their grades are falling, we don’t stand by and watch. We talk to the teacher, find out what is happening, try something different. Intervening in our children’s lives is what a parent does.

Intervention for children with Autism or Developmental Disabilities is no different. We see our toddler heading down a path which is evidently making him unhappy. He’s frustrated; he’s stuck. He’s banging at a door which just won’t open.

What does a parent do? We stop the action. We make the deliberate decision to interfere, and try something different. We want to help our child find a different path.

Every path is unique. There’s no yellow brick road, there’s no bright light or flashing sign. We make the best decision we can, with the information we have at the time. We know our child; we know our family; we know ourselves. With that, we choose an individual path, allowing ourselves the right to stop the action at any time, to continue to intervene, make different decisions.

Intervention for children with Autism or Developmental Disabilities is a way of choosing a different path for our child, because he is not happy where he is, and we feel another way will be better. As parents, it’s our choice, and our responsibility.

You can contact us!

Our “Contact Us” page has just been added: please look on the side bar. Remember, replace the word at with @ to email us. We have written it this way to prevent spam.

If you have a young child with autism or other developmental disabilities, why not contact us for further information? We provide home-based intervention including Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology and Relationship Development Intervention.

Who does Hills Nepean Intervention Service Help?

Hills Nepean Intervention Service is for young children with developmental disabilities and their families. This may include children with Down syndrome, children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (including Asperger syndrome), and children with learning difficulties. “Young children” includes children from birth to age ten years.

The Hills Nepean area of New South Wales includes the Hills District, the Nepean district, the Hawkesbury district, and families in the Bathurst/Lithgow area if necessary.

We will be adding a Contact Us page soon – stay tuned!