Education & Training

Why do we support the education community?

Minds & Hearts is a service that is specifically crafted and designed for understanding, acceptance, and empowerment. We understand the needs of school communities because we engage with parents and children daily.

We know that our clients and their families engage with schools and educational spaces, and we want to help their journey and all the layers of their life. This has led us to opening our focus to personalising professional development, training and workshops for educational communities.

It’s a growing team of diverse clinicians working together to create experiences with people and for people, having conversations and interactions that discover and build self- understanding whether they have neurodiverse challenges or not.

Areas of Support

Imagine the confidence within your staff and team if they had the skills and outcome-based conversations and training around what we’ve identified as some of the key areas of focus and concerns, topics like (but not limited to);

• Screening Tools for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Neurodivergence
• Programs that support and develop self-understanding and understanding of others
• Managing conflict in a consistent and predictable way (Educator/Student – Student/Student – Educator/Parent)

Statistics on Australian children verified to have access to a:

Individualised Education Plan (IEP); Individualised Learning Plan (ILP); or Personalised Learning Plan (PLP)

Students with disability who receive educational adjustments required.

21% of students attending government schools, 20% attending independent schools, and 19% attending Catholic schools receive adjustments because of disability.

Government schools have a higher proportion of students who receive ‘extensive’ or ‘substantial’ levels of adjustment than Catholic or independent schools – 28% of students with disability at government schools who receive adjustments, compared with 21% at Catholic schools and 17% at independent schools (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, ACARA, 2020).

The NCCD was progressively implemented in Australian schools from 2013, with 2015 being the first year that almost all schools participated. As more years of data are compiled, this collection has the potential to provide more information about trends.