Our services
Creating a relationship with you and your child begins with working in the setting where you and they are most comfortable…
Our service can include helping your child with:
Emotional regulation – bring the balance back into your home.
Dovetail help you identify skills and concepts needed to support your child’s emotional regulation. These can include teaching you how to handle explosive moments and positive co-regulation skills, how to support emotional awareness and understanding, and how to support your child after dysregulation.
Transitions in the home – those times when it’s hard to get your child moving.
Often underpinning these moments is your child struggling to move from one activity to another. We help you identify the key challenges and develop a program using evidence-based strategies to support you and your child.
School transitions – for when their school environment changes.
Dovetail offers comprehensive transition support from the everyday changes of class breaks or moving from one activity to another to the milestone changes of starting high school or a new school.
For a new school transition, we create a comprehensive Transition Plan that details your child’s existing strengths, developmental areas, and vision for their life. The Action Plan section for their teaching staff covers everything to correctly assist your child in managing this transition from an orientation day visit through to who their support people will be and personal training to familiarise them with their new environment.
Our services
Social communication – specific skill sets for the neurodivergent child.
There are many aspects to social communication that are often complex for neurodivergent children and young people to understand. They can include having conversations with others, making friends, working in a group, playground interventions, or following group instructions. We help you identify your child’s needs then develop and implement a plan to support them in gaining communication skills and understanding that includes the social skills of how to greet others, enter a conversation, initiate play, and identify peer play partners.
We also work with parents and guardians to keep you informed of anything you may not know yet about the areas that are so vital to your child’s growth and happiness. We help you understand your child’s specific needs and how to support them.
Dovetails consultants’ comprehensive range of experience and skills include specific expertise in autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Specific Learning Disorder (SLD), dyslexia, complex behaviour presentations, mental health disorders, and emotional regulation.