Art & Craft Social Skills

NDIS Funding Categories

NDIS funding is generally available for self-managed and plan-managed NDIS plans. Chat with your plan manager for what is relevant to your situation. It is helpful to know that other families have told us they usually use these categories (or similar):

1. Increased Social & Community Participation
2. Improved Daily Living     

Pricing (NDIS-Friendly)

$67.65

Pricing Structured for NDIS as:

[1.0 hour of face to face ($61.50) + 0.1 hour ($6.15) non-face-to-face, total $67.65]

Grow Social Skills & Teamwork In Mini-Groups (on Zoom)

• Express opinions.
• Listen to others’ ideas.
• Build conversational skills.
• Take others' feedback on board.
• Politely say 'no' to others' suggestions.
• Give and receive compliments.
• Learn to build rapport and make connections.
• Learn self-esteem and self-talk strategies.
• Plan together.
• Create together.
• Be a great team-player.

We Help Your Child Achieve Their NDIS Goals

We have different goals for each child and team. We set goals depending on your child's abilities, and for community members who are on NDIS, we set goals that match NDIS objectives and we match goals to your child's unique personality.

NDIS Reports Provided

Parents often ask, “Can I please have a report for our NDIS plan review?”

Rest assured, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" 

We'll arrange that for you.

No hidden fees - All reporting like this is already built into the standard program fee, so you will not be given an extra fee beyond the usual cost of the program. 

For Kids/Teens Aged: 8-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-17, 18-19 (In mini-groups)

We have different session times, depending on your child's age group and art interests. We've deliberately designed these sessions so that your child can be part of a team, regardless of their age or ability. We create ways for older students help our younger ones. It is part of the teamwork mind-set.

Experienced Autism-Friendly Leaders

This is safer than almost anywhere else your child could be. That's because your child will work with at least two of our social skills leaders who will make sure that everyone is using friendly voices and doing friendly things. We have clear guidelines and rules for how we speak to others.

Here’s How We Create

• We will express our own opinions using kind words.
• We listen when others have a different opinion.
• We will always listen to our leaders who are here to help us.
• We will try to not get cranky at people even if we don't like what they are saying.
• We compromise - Sometimes other people want us to create art differently to how we want to build things, and we will be okay with changing our minds.
• If our leader tells us to go and get a drink of water, we will do that straight away because that is our chance to calm down.
• We try to keep our camera on (in Zoom) so our leaders/teammates can see our faces to know if we are feeling okay.
• We always use calm, kind and polite words and we have friendly faces.
• We finish on time, even if we are only part way through creating things.

Social & life skills taught in an Autism-friendly way

• Each session, our Autistic kids learn a new social skill, broken down into simple steps.
• Your child experiences new skills in a fun way.
• Your child practises new social strategies in a supported environment.
• Your child plays fun games to discover effective ways to apply their new skills.
• We help your child to try out these skills for themselves.
• We collaborate with parents or teachers to create opportunities for the new skills to be used.