Preschool Boost delivered by Day by Day Early Intervention

Day by Day Early Intervention is an approved supplier on the South Australian Government’s Preschool Boost menu. Our speech pathologists and occupational therapists coach your educators inside your real routines, so the strategies keep working long after we have left.

Ready to get started? Fill out our referral form and we’ll get in touch.

Preschool Boost is a South Australian Government funding program that helps Flying Start partner services do more to address developmental vulnerability.

Every Flying Start partner service receives a Preschool Boost allocation. Services choose how to spend it from a menu of evidence informed programs and supports, and set that out in their Preschool Boost Plan.

Day by Day sits on that menu under two separate listings, one for speech pathology and one for occupational therapy. Both are listed under the support category educator upskilling.

Link to SP: Preschool Boost Menu | Office for Early Childhood Development

Link to OT: Preschool Boost Menu | Office for Early Childhood Development

Educators are stretched. So we start with the routine you already have, and find the moments where a small change does the most work.

Coaching can happen in the room, alongside educators, during the actual day. Or we can come at a time that suits you to interview and coach your team through their days, including group sessions where your room staff workshop the tricky parts together.

1. We watch the day
A clinician spends time in your rooms observing real routines, transitions and group dynamics. We are looking for friction points and for what is already working well.

2. We talk with your educators
Each educator brings different strengths and different concerns. We ask them what is hard, what they have already tried, and what they want to feel more confident about.

3. We workshop the hard parts together
Your room staff come together away from the floor to work through the moments they find hardest, and how to embed therapeutic strategies into the routines they already run.

4. We coach in the moment
Side by side modelling during the routine itself, with feedback that is specific and immediate. Educators practise with our support before we step back.

5. We leave something usable
A short, plain language plan the room can actually run, plus any visuals or resources it needs. No folder of theory that nobody opens.

6. We come back and review
We check what stuck, adjust what did not, and build on it. Change in a busy room takes more than one visit.

7. We report on outcomes
Clear documentation you can use in your Preschool Boost reporting and your quality improvement work.

Not all of the work has to happen on the floor. We can also bring your room staff together, away from the children, to workshop the day as a group.

These sessions are practical rather than theoretical. Your team names the tricky moments, the transition that always unravels, the mealtime that stretches out for forty minutes, the pack up that ends in tears, and we work through them together. What is actually going on, why it is hard, and what to try on Monday.

The other half of the session is about embedding therapeutic strategies into everyday moments, so they live inside the routines your educators already run rather than becoming another thing to fit in. When a whole room works through this together, everyone leaves with the same strategies and the same language, which is what makes them hold up on a busy day or when a relief educator steps in.

We can run these during staff meetings, planning time or a professional development day, whichever fits your roster.

Being clear up front saves everyone time during planning.

Included

• • In room coaching and modelling with your educators
  • Upskilling across communication, sensory regulation, motor skills and participation
  • Whole of room strategies that benefit every child, not just those with a diagnosis
  • Practical resources built for your routines
  • Group workshop sessions with your room staff, working through the tricky moments of the day and how to embed strategies into everyday routines
  • Written summaries for your planning and reporting

Not included under this listing

• • Individual assessment or therapy for a named child
  • Direct family or parenting programs
  • Pull out therapy groups run with children by our clinicians

Our menu listings are educator upskilling. Where a child needs individual therapy, families can access speech pathology and occupational therapy with us separately through NDIS, Medicare or private pathways at Day by Day Therapy House. We also offer Developmental Screenings.

Preschool Boost spending is set out in your Preschool Boost Plan, developed with support from your OECD Local Team.

Plans may be submitted for approval any time between August and November, and all plans must be submitted to your Local Team by 1 November. Once your plan is approved, you can begin booking your selected supports.

Get in touch before then so we can talk through what your rooms need, confirm availability, and give you a written quote to build into your plan.

Day by Day Therapy House
125 Port Road, Queenstown SA 5014

Enquiries

📞 Phone: 0460 885 008
📧 Email: [email protected]
📋 Fill out the referral form: Preshool Boost Referral Form

Delivering to services across western suburbs of Adelaide