• Advocating for families, and helping them access information.
• Mentoring and coaching families and practitioners to integrate play-based early intervention programs into everyday life.
• Mentoring and coaching practitioners in early childhood education centres to integrate family-centred practices into their daily work.
• Sharing information and processes to build documentation and reflective skills.
• Hosting regular ‘Reflection on Practice’ meetings to establish and maintain relationships and develop shared understandings.
• Collecting and sharing information about the disabilities that are relevant to children within the Community of Learners, and about the help that is available –  including entitlement to other support.
• An interactive website to allow information to be shared across the Community of Learners.

Content of the Community of Learners website includes:

• definitions of terminology
• explanations of roles and responsibilities of different professionals
• links to other useful websites
• information about different disabilities
• accessible readings on up-to-date early childhood topics specific to working with young children with disabilities
• a password secure section where information about children and families can be stored and added to by professionals involved with that family.

Click here to view the Community of Learners website