Yes I have two kids. My daughter Gabrielle is my first, and I have a soon-to-be 3 year old son called Zeke.
The Centre provides individualised educational programs for the kids, each developed to meet their own needs.
Gabrielle's main need, of course, is speech. So they do a lot of activities with her at the moment focussed on simple sentence formation (singing, reading, story-telling, flash cards, games, one-on-one interaction etc)
She also has some developmental delays (fairly minor) with gross motor skills and fine motor skills. So they incorporate some physiotherapy and occupational therapy into her program too. Often you'll find with speech that an improvement in gross motor and fine motor skills helps their processing, which in turn helps them to "organise" their speech and get what's in their head out through their mouth in the right sequence.
Gabrielle is also eligible to receive speech therapy via a pathologist with Disability Services Queensland, a State Dept here in Qld. I don't know where you live, but you may have something similar where you live?
Have you looked into whether or not you're eligible for a Carer's allowance or payment from Centrelink? That certainly helps with the extra time and cost involved with providing therapy for a child.
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