Early Years: Tummy Time Program
$579.00
The Therapy at Home Early Years: Tummy Time Program has been specially designed by our paediatric occupational and speech therapists to support and guide parents in exploring and experiencing tummy time with their baby.
By exploring a variety of ways to engage in tummy time, parents can feel confident in nurturing their baby’s endurance, strength and engagement at home.
Created for ages 0-6 months+
A block of Group Telehealth Sessions are included with this program.
- Description
- What's in the toolbox?
- What are the benefits?
- What are the goals?
- What skills will we build?
- Telehealth
- Outcome Report
The Therapy at Home Early Years: Tummy Time Program focuses on supporting parents to engage in safe, practical and interactive tummy time experiences with their baby. It aims to assist parents in developing the skills and confidence to support their babies developmental milestones.
Through The Play Way’s Early Years: Tummy Time Instruction Card Set and accompanying videos, parents will be guided to explore 11 different tummy time holds. These cards provide functional ideas for engaging in tummy time in a variety of ways and settings.
In doing so, the program seeks to showcase a range of options for how parents can effectively engage in tummy time. It encourages parents and babies to work together to find holds and positions that can be easily incorporated into an existing routine and make tummy time a positive experience for all.
To further support parents in keeping tummy time fun, there are a range of ideas for using songs, books, sensory experiences and people games during tummy time. These suggestions are outlined in the facilitator guide and supported by the accompanying videos. They are offered as further ways to play and extend the tummy time experience.
The program is supported by over 30 videos, so that parents can feel confident in delivering the therapy at home to support their baby’s developmental milestones using the equipment provided in the toolbox. In addition, the printed support materials have been designed especially with parents of newborns in mind, with options for interacting on a deep level using the facilitator guide or in a more exploratory way with the information card.
Above all, the Early Years: Tummy Time Program aims to give parents the confidence to recognise that the most valuable toy their baby needs is them.
PLEASE NOTE: The essential components of the toolbox generally don’t change over time unless we are making improvements to the overall program. The specific tools included may differ at times in terms of brand, colour and other cosmetic differences due to sourcing factors out of our control. This will not affect the therapeutic benefits of the program as intended for the participant. We recommend that you only order one program per participant to ensure the appropriate use of funds. We cannot tailor toolboxes or programs to suit specific requests at this time. If you order a program for multiple participants they will receive the same program and toolbox. All shop listing images are representative of the program theme and not necessarily literal representations of what’s in the toolbox.
What's in the toolbox?
The Therapy at Home Early Years: Tummy Time Program comes with a toolbox of resources delivered to your door that aligns with the skill building modules in the online program. This toolbox provides a practical and joyful element for babies to engage with as their careers engage and follow along with the videos.
The toolbox includes*:
✓ Taf Toys Tummy Time Trainer containing a pillow for your baby to use during tummy time and a round hoop for attaching engaging activities such as a crinkling rainbow blankie and baby-safe mirror
✓ Melissa and Doug ‘Whose Feet’ soft book to stimulate interest during tummy time and build early language and communication skills
✓ Exercise ball for supporting your baby in tummy time holds
✓ Bubbles for creating an interactive tummy time experience for your baby
✓ The Play Way’s Early Years: Tummy Time Instruction Card Set containing visual images and descriptions for 11 practical and easy-to-implement tummy time holds
✓ The Play Way’s Nursery Rhyme Card Set to encourage the joy of language, communication and song with your baby
✓ Information card explaining the products in the kit and ideas for exploration
✓ Facilitator guide to assist in guiding and supporting the delivery of the therapy at home
* The essential components of the toolbox generally don’t change over time unless we are making improvements to the overall program. The specific tools included may differ at times in terms of brand, colour and other cosmetic differences due to sourcing factors out of our control. This will not affect the therapeutic benefits of the program as intended for the participant.
What are the benefits?
The Therapy at Home Early Years: Tummy Time Program aims to deliver the following benefits:
✓ Build foundational strength through engaging in activities for baby’s head control and overall muscle strengthening, essential for reaching key developmental milestones
✓ Boost tummy time endurance and engagement through a variety of supportive strategies and adaptable tools
✓ Empower parents with guidance to facilitate safe, effective, easy-to-implement and engaging tummy time activities that are easy to implement
✓ Create special bonding and connection time, fostering confidence in the ability to provide joy and wonder to your baby
What are the goals?
The Therapy at Home Early Years: Tummy Time Program aims to achieve the following goals:
✓ Building fine motor skills – reaching, grasping and bringing hands together
✓ Enhancing gross motor skills – developing neck and upper body strength, balance and core
✓ Providing sensory experiences and use of hands and fingers to explore textures and objects
✓ Supporting social engagement and connections
✓ Enhancing early communication through face-to-face interactions, playful songs and sounds
✓ Building curiosity and cognitive skills such as cause and effect and problem solving
View the Therapy at Home NDIS Goals Guide to see how the participant’s NDIS goals align with our range of Therapy at Home programs.
What skills will we build?
The Therapy at Home Early Years: Tummy Time Program focuses on skill development in the following areas:
✓ Foundational gross motor skills through experimentation with different tummy time options based on age, stage of development and preference
✓ Fine motor skills as books and toys are explored with hands and fingers
✓ Early language and communication skills by encouraging back and forth interactions and using books and songs as a means of teaching beginning sounds and words
✓ Sensory integration as the senses such as seeing, hearing, touching and tasting/mouthing are engaged during tummy time play
✓ Early social skills through engaging with fun people games, songs and books to enhance bonding and social development
Telehealth
This program includes a block of Group Telehealth Sessions to support you in successfully implementing this program. To read more about the Group Telehealth inclusion please visit our FAQs.
Outcome Report
This program comes with an outcome report for NDIS review purposes.
Parents/guardians must submit online questionnaires measuring the child’s progress before and after the program as a requirement for obtaining the outcome report.
Find out more about how to use your NDIS funds for this program HERE
Therapy at Home provides the option for an outcome report to be included with all Programs. These reports are a summary of the specific program outcomes measured as a result of participating in a specific Therapy at Home Program. This is not a report for decision-making at the full plan level. This is not a report for an end-of-plan review from which a planner can use to make decisions about future funds at a whole plan level.
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