Smarter Happier Kids
- Comes to you
- Online sessions
- NDIS registered
About Smarter Happier Kids
Smarter Happier Kids offers capacity building supports for early childhood and youth, with guided practice for educators. Sally Anderson uses a strength-based, holistic approach connecting 'The Heart, The Hands and The Head' through multi-sensory and musical engagement, based on early intervention therapeutic practices and evidence-based interventions to promote functional independence and social participation.
What's offered
Telehealth sessions
Home or school visits
NDIS registered provider
- Early Childhood
- Therapy
- Community Participation
Services provided
Smarter Happier Kids lists
- One-on-one support for children
- Support for children diagnosed with autism, developmental delay, disability, or disengagement from learning in areas including sensory processing, language acquisition, communication skills, reading and writing engagement, emotional development, self-regulation, social participation, and executive functioning.
- Parent and carer support
- One-on-one guidance face-to-face or online (Skype, Zoom, Health Direct) including strategies, resources, understanding autism diagnosis, behaviour regulation, school selection, NDIS and Medicare navigation, and family wellbeing support.
- Educator professional development and mentoring
- Guided practice techniques, team professional development on neurodiversity, one-on-one mentoring in educators' workspaces, and on-the-ground support delivered online or face-to-face to build capacity in managing neuro-diverse children with additional needs.
Get to know Smarter Happier Kids
From Smarter Happier Kids's website.
Our approach
Sally's approach is strength-based and holistic, connecting through the heart, hands, and head to engage the whole child. She uses multi-sensory and musical approaches, drawing on early intervention therapeutic practices and evidence-based interventions that are particularly effective for children who learn differently. Sessions incorporate music to improve cognitive function, social communication, motor skills and emotional development in a fun and creative way. Sally works alongside parents and other therapists to plan individualised programs tailored to each child's goals and needs, grounded in early childhood best practice.
Working with families
Sally works collaboratively with parents and carers as an integral part of the support process. She offers one-on-one guided support through suggestions, strategies and resources to help you support your child at home, available face-to-face or online via Zoom, Skype or Health Direct. She also acts as a sounding board and advisor on topics including understanding your child's diagnosis, behaviour regulation, navigating NDIS and Medicare pathways, selecting appropriate childcare or school, and supporting your own wellbeing and family wellbeing as part of the journey.
Meet the team
Sally Anderson is the principal and director of Smarter Happier Kids. She is a Registered Teacher in NT and SA with over 40 years of experience in education across mainstream schools, independent schools, early childhood intervention, special education, music education and distance education. She is an NDIS Certified Consultant in Early Childhood Early Intervention and Assessment Recommendation Therapy/Training, and is currently studying to become an NDIS provider of Behaviour Support. Her extensive background includes roles as teacher, consultant, mentor, advisor and leader across multiple educational environments.
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