What is Learning Solutions?

Learning Solutions is a service where young people are supported one-on-one by a professional educator to develop, maintain and increase their foundational skills. This may be related to numeracy skills, executive functioning or other essential skills such as self-advocating for accommodations that align to their learning needs, skillset and capacity, or building practical problem solving, reasoning, planning and analytic abilities for increased functional capacity in everyday life. Many young people require support to be competent and confident in using these necessary skills. Learning Solutions can be extremely different for each individual; we will develop a personalised learning plan tailored specifically to the young persons' strengths, differences, interests, attributes and unique goal(s). Learning Solutions can focus on specific concept-based areas such as money, time or organisation. However, goals will also focus on building an individual's confidence in the practical application of foundational and mathematical skills across a range of settings. Most importantly, we aim to build the young person's abilities to a point where they are versatile and transferrable across the lifespan (e.g. at school, home, in games/activities with peers, on public transport, in the community, at supermarkets or restaurants, online shopping, paying bills, budgeting an allowance or wage etc). New Leaf Therapy is able to provide tailored Learning Solutions for young people between ages 6-16 years old.

Learning Solutions Structure

  • The Initial Consult
    An initial consult consists of a 1-hour face-to-face meeting with both the young person and their carer/s and 1 hour for the educator to prepare a summary and plan. The purpose of an initial consult is to identify the young person’s current abilities and to develop appropriate goals.
Meeting With Your Educator
The educator will work through an informal assessment with the young person to determine gaps in their knowledge and understanding. They will have a discussion with the young person to help identify their mathematical dispositions and specific areas of interest or concern.
Caregivers can also be involved in this meeting and will be given the opportunity to discuss the following:
  • Their observations and understanding about their young person's current abilities, executive function, mathematical ability and dispositions
  • Their insight on how their young person best learns, how they function or adapt within a typical classroom setting
  • Their young person’s experiences with formal education
  • Any relevant reports or testing completed by other professionals
  • Goals and/or specific skills they want their young person to work towards
  • The goals in their young person’s current NDIS plan (if accessing NDIS funding)
Development Of Your Plan
Following the face-to-face meeting, our educator will develop an individualised plan for the young person that includes:
  • results of the informal assessment
  • a summary of the discussions with the young person and their carer
  • goals that the young person will be working towards in life skills training (e.g. mathematical/numeracy, budgeting etc)
  • what the focus of future sessions will be to meet these goals
  • how it will be determined whether the young person has met these goals
  • a statement of how this support is reasonable and necessary under their NDIS plan
  • Engagement Of Services
    Should you decide to proceed with the proposed plan, we will send you a service agreement for a standard 3-month (12 week) engagement period. Once this service agreement is signed, we will contact you to organise a suitable day and time for your young person to begin.
  • Learning Solutions Sessions
    A duration of a standard session will be 90 minutes, which will be invoiced at a rate of $175 per hour (below the NDIS price guide of $193.99 per hour). This time will be allocated into 75 minutes of dedicated 1:1 face-to-face work with the young person, and 15 minutes for non-face-to-face related tasks such as correspondence, liaising with other supports, session preparation and planning by the educator. The duration of a session can be adjusted to meet the individual’s needs.
  • Goal Review
    Goals are constantly evaluated and adjusted. However, if deemed necessary by the educator or carer, a more thorough goal review may take place.
A goal review will have a similar structure to the initial consult. This will include:
  • The degree to which the initial goals were met
  • What worked for the young person to help them meet their goals
  • What barriers delayed the young person in meeting their goals
  • Any changes that have made an impact in the young person’s life
  • Setting new goals that meet the current needs of the young person
If you are interested in Learning Solutions for your young person, please complete the enquiry form below.
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NEW LEAF THERAPY GROUP PTY LTD

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77 Lethbridge Street, Penrith NSW 2750
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