You have a child with disability and your role brings many rewards and benefits, yet it is not always easy. Extra steps may be needed to help them with key life skills, like getting ready to go in the morning, socialising with others, independence, self-care, and with nighttime routines at the end of the day.
Perhaps you want support to respond to their individual needs, communicate better with your child, and build strong relationships with their family and community. You might also like to feel less stressed and help the whole family adapt, so you can all enjoy family life more. That’s where Stepping Stones Triple P may help.
Stepping Stones is based on Triple P’s positive parenting strategies. It supports your role as a parent or carer of children with disability. It helps you encourage behaviour you like, support child development, build a close relationship with your child and teach them new skills. It can also help you to cope with stress and improve your confidence to manage child behaviour. You choose the type of Stepping Stones Triple P help based on your own needs. Programs range in intensity from light-touch seminars to ongoing courses and an online program.
This online, self-paced program can make a real difference in your family life when raising a child with disability. You’ll learn how you can take positive steps to help them with key life skills, respond to their individual needs, manage daily routines, and build strong relationships with their family and community.
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Seminars tackle the most common issues for parents of children with disability and bring together large groups of parents – often 20 or more. Each seminar takes around 90 minutes and you can do one, two or all three in the series. The topics in the series are: Positive Parenting for Children with a Disability; Helping your Child Reach their Potential; and Changing Problem Behaviour into Positive Behaviour.
This is brief, personal support for specific concerns about child behaviour, through one-to-one active skills training. You’ll meet with a provider for about four sessions of between 15 and 30 minutes each time, tackling one or two specific behaviours or issues that are particularly worrying you. You could target anything from your child’s fears and anxiety to mealtime dramas.
You’re either having significant problems with your child’s behaviour or you are interested in learning skills and strategies to promote your child’s development and potential. About a dozen parents come together for six sessions, which last 2 ½ hours each. Your Stepping Stones provider will also call you at home at pre-arranged times to offer support, feedback and ideas.
This is more in-depth and is recommended for families with moderate to severe concerns about their child’s behaviour. There are eight to 10 private consultations with a trained provider who’ll help you develop a wide range of positive parenting skills. Each session lasts about an hour.